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Session 1.5.

Initial EFSA Secondary Data Review: Team Exercise

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Session Objectives

After this session, participants should be able to:

• Describe the importance and value of secondary data to the initial EFSA

• Identify useful secondary data that are available in your own country setting

• List the critical sets of secondary data that help to answer key initial EFSA questions

“Is there a food security and/or nutrition problem that poses an immediate threat to lives, or short-term potential risks to lives?”

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Should be done in advance, as preparedness activity

The Process

Collect and Compile Secondary Data

Collect and Compile Primary Data using checklist

Conduct Situation Analysis

Conduct Forecast Analysis

Produce Recommendations

Write Initial EFSA report

Develop Work Plan and TORs

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Primary vs. Secondary data

• What are primary data?

• What are secondary data?

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Plenary exercise:Is this primary or secondary data ?

1. The percentage of food insecure households per district as of the latest VAM study available.

2. The summary of a focus group discussion about income sources of most families in the community

3. Data from the civil defense on flood-affected populations4. The percentage of harvest lost according to the Ministry of

Agriculture5. One of the household indicates that it owns 5 cows, according to

an interveiw held with the head of the household.6. Malnutrition prevalence according to the last surevy of a local

NGO.

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Exercise 5. Secondary Data

Refer to TGS #6, Part 7 and Table 4 in particular.

As a team:

1. Decide which secondary data are essential to our Initial EFSA missions (focus on those that inform directly about priority factors likely to affect food & nutrition security)

2. Assign categories to team members

3. Decide where to get these data and go get them!

4. Use Exercise 1.5. template to compile secondary data

Be prepared to present findings to plenary on flip charts.

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Exercise 5. Template

Category Secondary DataPopulation Range of answers (or average if there is small variation) –

Source

Income/ Expenditure

Info A – SourceInfo B – Source Info C – Source

Food Security Info A – SourceInfo B – Source Info C – Source

Market Info A – SourceInfo B – Source Info C – Source

etc…

Categories selected will depend upon your particular Initial EFSA

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Team Presentations

What do we know now about the affected area & groups?

Everything else is a gap: need to prioritise what we will collect

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