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OCHA Process and products: Prioritization and severity models (especially in sudden onset), Humanitarian Snapshot
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Explanatory
Focus: Provide answers to the questions of why something is happening, and what factors are at play to make a situation occur. Why is it like this? What are is the plausible and rival explanation(s)? Look for associations and correlations. Discover and explain associations or cause-effect relations between different attributes, factors, and events.
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- Current food insecurity is linked to the blockade starting in November 2017, severely restricted restricting imports of essential goods.
- People in rural areas suffer food insecurity mostly for lack of due to limited food products and diversity in markets. In urban areas, food insecurity is driven by lack of financial resources and social discrimination.
- Before the blockade, Country X already faced the largest food security emergency in the world, with the on-going conflict destructing assets, infrastructure, and food sources.
OCHA Process and products Humanitarian Needs Overview (explanatory, interpretive and anticipatory Analysis)
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Interpretive:
Focus: Ratings, rankings, and uncertainty
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Anticipatory:
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- Prediction, forecasting
- scenario building
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