Session 2.2. Purposes & Triggers of Trader Surveys TST WFP Markets Learning Programme Trader Survey Training

Learning Objectives By the end of this session, participants should be able to: Identify the purposes of trader surveys of use to WFP   Explain the conditions under which trader surveys should be conducted and the possible triggers of those surveys WFP Markets Learning Programme Trader Survey Training

Where does TS fit into the Food Security Analysis? Community Survey HH Survey Price Analysis Key Informants Secondary Data Analysis Trader Survey Response Analysis Food Security Analysis Implementation Capacity Assessment WFP Markets Learning Programme

Plenary Q&A purposes & triggers of trader surveys What are the various purposes of WFP trader surveys? When do you conduct these various trader surveys? What triggers these surveys? Concrete examples from your own experience? WFP Markets Learning Programme Trader Survey Training

purposes & triggers of trader surveys When assessing impact on FS of sudden or slow-onset shock, and possible responses When assessing food insecure areas through regular surveys, CFSAMs, or when establishing a FS baseline When assessing future transmissions effects of external shock on market system When assessing food procurement opportunities and Purchase for Progress (P4P) interventions When monitoring food markets WFP Markets Learning Programme Trader Survey Training

When do you conduct trader surveys? General rule: only when secondary information is not available. ‘FS’ trader surveys: in conjunction with rest of assessment, so triggers correspond to those in EFSA Handbook; External shocks: No general rule - depends on monitoring of global & sub-regional food & other livelihood markets, also of socio-economic- political situation in region WFP Markets Learning Programme Trader Survey Training

When do you conduct trader surveys? Food procurement: when expecting excess food supply & WFP interested in procuring: at end of growing season, during harvest, or at beginning of new marketing season Monitoring food markets: depends on the monitoring system WFP Markets Learning Programme Trader Survey Training

Exercise 2.2. Pakistan Market Assessment Review the summary findings from the 2005 Pakistan Market Assessment Workbook, pp. 17-20), and then, as a group, discuss: What was the purpose of the trader survey? Why was it conducted? In response to what condition(s)? What triggered the trader survey? What were the main contributions of the market analysis team to the FS assessment? WFP Markets Learning Programme Trader Survey Training

Small Group Presentations Purpose of trader survey Reasons it was conducted (in response to what condition?) Trigger(s)? Main contribution to FS assessment of TS? 1. What type of trader survey is involved? A survey undertaken to assess the impact on food security of the Pakistan earthquake 2. Why was it conducted? In response to what condition(s)? To affirm the conclusions of the emergency food security and nutrition assessment To understand how well markets were recovering in urban and in rural areas from the earthquake To understand changes in basic staple foods and the differences in those changes depending upon whether the market is urban or rural To understand the impact of road conditions and lack of cash reserves on food shortages 3. What triggered the trader survey? Assumptions that relief food for urban areas might be a much less appropriate response than non-food (income transfers), except for displaced persons, and that the need for food relief was much greater in more remote rural areas - at least until the next local harvest 4. What were the main contributions of the markets analysis team to the food security assessment? The trader survey and market assessment affirmed that food access was the primary issue in urban areas, not food availability. The markets analysis affirmed that food aid programming for the most inaccessible and difficult to reach rural, northern highland areas and cash compensation for vulnerable populations (non-encamped) in urban areas were appropriate responses. Also that “if cereals are included in food aid programming beyond the next harvest, local purchase of Pakistani origin should be a priority, particularly rice” given that there is sufficient national production and stocks of wheat and rice in Pakistan to fulfil the cereal food needs of the affected populations in urban and rural areas. WFP Markets Learning Programme Trader Survey Training

WFP Markets Learning Programme Wrap-up A trader survey conducted as part of a market analysis can provide critically important information for a food security assessment – particularly with regard to the status of markets and whether or not they are continuing to function in the aftermath of crisis WFP Markets Learning Programme