Chapter 3: Information Management, Assessment and Analysis
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Guidance: Analysis Tools for Reintegration Contexts
Tool
Situation analysis
Essential in reintegration contexts to
understand the overall socio-economic,
security and political situation, as well as
opportunities and constraints in the area of
return. This enables strategic and operational
decision-makers to set objectives and
priorities, plan reintegration strategies, assign
roles and responsibilities and mobilize
resources.
What is involved?
Analysing existing data or collecting new data
using focus groups or stakeholder interview.
Key information to include:
 Socio-economic issues
 Political issues and Security context
 External dimensions
 Civil rights, culture, identity-related issues,
and finally
 Displacement-specific issues
Conflict analysis
Conflict analysis can be used to support a
conflict-sensitive approach to managing
reintegration operations. Combining conflict
analysis with stakeholder mapping and
situation analysis allows you to better
understand conflict dynamics and how they
will impact on planning.
Various conflict analysis tools can be used.
UNHCRs Principles and operational guidance for
peaceful coexistence outlines several steps to
conflict analysis:
 Contextual analysis
 Identification and analysis of sources and
drivers of conflict
 Identification of key conflict actors
 Identification of activities of actors
 Scenarios and contingency plans
How is it used?
The results are used to:
 Gather baseline information and create a
detailed profile of a given local, national or
regional context.
 Analyse existing and potential causes of conflict.
 Provide strategic and operational decisionmakers with information necessary to set
objectives and priorities, plan reintegration
strategies, programmes and projects, assign
roles and responsibilities and mobilize
resources.
Conflict analysis is used to:
 Avoid negative impacts of reintegration projects
and maximize the positive impacts incl. benefits
of potential peacebuilding processes, identify
root causes of conflict, e.g. triggers and drivers
of conflict amongst PoC and local communities.
 Identify opportunities for positive interventions
and create change theory for sustainable
reintegration.
 Better understand stakeholders’ interests,
capabilities and potential influence on peaceconflict dynamics and role as agents of change.
 Analyse the potential impact of ongoing conflict
on reintegration projects.
 Increase mutual understanding and build
confidence between partners as part of a joint
analysis process.
Comments
See “Principles and
Operational Guidance
on Coexistence (UNHCR
2013)” for further
guidance on situation
analysis in post-conflict
contexts
It is valuable for
implementing staff to
undertake the process,
Also, findings not only
inform programming
priorities. More
fundamentally they can
be used to reframe how
programmes are
designed and
implemented, leading
to doing things
differently rather than
simply doing different
things.
Chapter 3: Information Management, Assessment and Analysis
Stakeholder analysis
A process of identifying relevant partners and
stakeholders and mapping out possible links to
their humanitarian and development
strategies, projects and programmes as well as
needs, goals and interests.
Population profiling
A method of collecting the characteristics of
the population in an aggregated manner that
can be generalized to the entire population. It
will help to obtain a better understanding of
your population of concern whether refugees,
IDPs or receiving communities. This will include
socio-economic analysis and demographic
profiles, aspirations, intentions, needs and
assets.
Stakeholder analysis involves:
 Identifying all relevant groups involved in/
affected by a given situation
 Analysing their perspectives (i.e. interests,
needs, positions, resources)
 Analysing their relationships (with one
another and with other entities)
 Determining how to engage with such
stakeholders and identify possible
opportunities to act.
Population profiling involves:
 Reviewing existing profiles of the returning
refugee community (from the voluntary
repatriation process, if available) before
undertaking new analysis to avoid
duplications.
 Cross-analysing data from registration
database e.g. ProGres, household level
surveys, existing participatory assessments,
rapid surveys, intention surveys, focus
group discussions, key informant
interviews and registration data etc.
 Collecting new data using statistical
(surveys) and/or descriptive tools (focus
groups and stakeholder interviews).
 Producing a profile containing core
demographic data disaggregated by age,
sex and location and any other relevant
information (see checklist).
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Stakeholder analysis:
 Allows to better understand individuals, groups,
associations, organizations and others involved
in reintegration contexts and to identify
potential partners.
 Can also be used to identify who influences
peace and conflict dynamics in a country and/or
a region.
Tools include:
stakeholder analysis
forms and visual
mapping
Profiling is used to:
 Obtain baseline information and a subsequent
overview of the population to allow better
targeting of assistance or understanding the
dynamics among the communities.
 Inform the design of interventions based on
needs, intentions etc of PoC.
Population profiles
should be made of PoC
and of receiving
communities in areas
of return.