Position paper

A common approach to understanding needs across crisis-affected populations

Published 02. Sep 2025|Updated 05. Dec 2025
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Given the current upheaval facing our system and momentum towards reform, we believe now is the right moment to address this challenge.

In April, NRC and IMPACT Initiatives shared a joint note calling for the adoption of a standardized approach to understanding the severity of refugees’ needs, and encouraged “alignment of this methodology with the approach used to reprioritize within and across OCHA-led responses”. This note aims to go one step further by outlining how this could be taken forward.