OVERVIEW
Purpose
As part of the Pakistan Humanitarian Strategic Plan (HSP) for 2016, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) agreed to develop a Humanitarian Response Monitoring Framework as an operational tool to ensure effective and timely monitoring of the HSP implementation. Initial work on the Response Monitoring Framework began in conjunction with developing the Strategic Plan with sectors/clusters developing their sector/cluster objectives, indicators, activities, targets and information related to data collection and analysis. This Framework, which covers January to December 2016, was endorsed by the HCT on 10 March 2016, following the endorsement of the 2016 Pakistan Humanitarian Strategic Plan.
This Framework clearly defines what will be monitored, how and when, and identifies responsibilities for monitoring and differential analysis, and provides a clear schedule for the release of reports, including two Periodic Monitoring Reports (PMRs) and four humanitarian dashboards.
While providing evidence base to the HC/HCT to make decisions on strengthening humanitarian response, addressing shortcomings and cross-cutting issues, and adjusting the 2016 HSP as required, this monitoring framework aims to strengthen the humanitarian community’s accountability to the affected populations of Pakistan and local partners.
Scope
The Pakistan HSP logframe consists of three main levels: Strategic Objectives (outcomes), Sector Objectives (outcomes and outputs) and Cluster Activities (outputs). All of them have related indicators, baselines and targets to measure progress over time.
As outlined in the graph below, the Response Monitoring Framework includes four tiers of response monitoring, in line with the HSP. The upper three correspond to the HSP logframe, while the lower covers inputs.
Strategic Objectives are monitored by the Humanitarian Country Team.
Cluster Objectives are monitored by the ICCM/NHCM.
Projects are monitored by the individual organizations that are members of the clusters.
Financial inputs are monitored through the online Financial Tracking Service (FTS) platform.
While acknowledging the importance of all levels of monitoring and reporting, this Framework measures the progress of the collective humanitarian response, by focusing on the upper two levels, i.e. Strategic Objectives and Sector Objectives.
