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Renewing Our Commitment to Evidence-Based Decision-making with our 2025 - 2030 Strategic Framework

Since IMPACT’s creation in 2010, our purpose has remained the same: to support humanitarian and other solidarity actors in making better decisions, informed by reliable data and driven by partnerships with communities. 

As collective action loses momentum, achieving a common understanding obased on rigorous data is becoming harder. At the same time, shrinking access to crisis-affected areas creates fertile ground for misinformation and disinformation—fueling self-interest, conflict, and tension.  

For those working in humanitarian response, international development, or climate action, this makes it increasingly difficult to rely on the evidence needed to protect and support the most vulnerable. Good data, collected directly from populations, is not just technical—it is the foundation of effective, needs-based and people-centered assistance, and it builds the trust and collaboration our sector depends on. 

Leveraging 15 years of learning and improvements, and following extensive consultations with staff, governance members, and external partners, IMPACT has defined its Strategic Framework for 2025 – 2030. Still as its core, our commitment to evidence-based decision-making, is more important than ever.

Supporting Research Expertise in the Humanitarian Sector

As reflected in the second objective of our Strategic Framework, "Pioneering Research Excellence", IMPACT is constantly reflecting on how to improve humanitarian research standards - please find below two recent products following this objective.

Supporting Cash Assistance With Market Monitoring

The Joint Market Monitoring Initiative (JMMI) is a methodology developed by IMPACT, through its initiative REACH, to provide humanitarian and development actors with key data on market prices and functionality needed to design CVA programming. To support humanitarian actors to use this approach and methodology, a Global Guidance Note was published, bringing together more than 10 years of experience designing, implementing, and refining JMMIs.

In the global context of rising needs and declining funding, ensuring that humanitarian assistance is effective and aligned with communities’ wishes is crucial, and in many contexts, CVA is a strong way forward.

Disability in Crisis: Uncovering the Data, Addressing the Gap

In humanitarian crises, people with disabilities are often the most affected, yet too often remain unseen. Overlapping emergencies heighten risks of death, injury, abuse, and deprivation, driven by persistent barriers and discrimination.

With support from UNICEF and funding from the Government of Norway, IMPACT analysed 27 Multi-Sector Needs Assessment datasets from 17 countries (2022–2024) using the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning. Across nearly every context, households including members with disabilities faced more severe needs. Even after controlling for displacement status, age, year, and country, these households remained significantly more likely to face critical gaps in essential services.

Other publications - Our pick of the month

• DRC | Needs of returnees in North Kivu: Since the beginning of 2025, the province of North Kivu has seen a growing trend of displaced populations returning home. To address the lack of information on these return dynamics, IMPACT, through its initiative REACH, launched an assessment in June in the health zones where the CCCM Cluster had identified the highest concentration of returnees. 
• UKRAINE | Evolution of humanitarian needs in frontline areas: Given the dynamic nature of the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, ongoing monitoring is essential. The  Humanitarian Situation Monitoring (HSM) summarizes the humanitarian situation and vulnerabilities in 222 settlements located within 50 kilometers of the frontline or the Russian Federation border. 

About IMPACT

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Geneva, IMPACT Initiatives is a leading applied research organization and the largest independent provider of data in crisis-affected contexts. Through our initiatives—REACH, AGORA, and PANDA—we enable humanitarian and other (international solidarity? aid?) actors to make better, evidence-based decisions by delivering timely, relevant, and methodologically rigorous data and analysis. Our extensive presence across crisis-contexts allows us to collect data directly from crisis-affected people wherever needed, including among the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach.

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