Humanitarian Assistance — Benchmark Indicators
USAID adopted two benchmark indicators for Humanitarian Assistance in 1999. These are
Crude Death Rate (CDR) and Nutritional Status of Children Under-Five. These indicators
are useful for monitoring the extent the entire relief system is meeting the needs of
populations in crisis, and thus the overall impact of humanitarian effort. They are
appropriate for complex humanitarian emergencies, because the response is necessarily
system-wide with various partners and other donors of the humanitarian community providing
relief. As such, USAID uses these indicators as an overall global monitoring of the
situation with its partners, including United Nations (UN) organizations and Private
Voluntary Organizations (PVO)/NGOs. The Nutrition Information Crisis Situations (NICS) of
the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) compiled and analyzed nutrition data from
all partners and emergency sites, supported by USAID and other donors (see trend analysis
below). The Complex-Emergencies Database (CE-DAT) at the Centre for Research on the
Epidemiology for Disasters (CRED) undertook a similar reporting on CDR.
The following pages present more information about these indicators:
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