REACH Syria market monitoring - December 2019

The following Rapid Market Monitoring was collected on 21 October at 12 major markets in NWS. Unlike the regular monthly Market Monitoring, only one (minimum) price-point was collected per item per market. REACH enumerators collected prices both remotely

Market Monitoring monthly dataset with Survival Minimum Expenditure Basket (SMEB) prices . To inform humanitarian actors’ cash and voucher programming, REACH and the Cash-Based Responses Technical Working Group (CBR–TWG) conduct monthly monitoring of key markets throughout Syria to assess the availability and affordability of basic commodities (Market Monitoring Exercise).

Field work was undertaken between 9-22 December 2019 in NES by NGO partners involved in cash-based responses and analysed by REACH. Collected prices and barriers correspond to the timeframe in which they were collected and should be used with care. Prices can be extremely volatile in the Syrian conflict, and they are relevant only in the framework of the markets where information was collected.