Introduction to the Crisis Watch Network Date: 01:01:2006

The Crisis Watch Initiative IDS was quickly involved in efforts to understand the nature and consequences of the 2008/9 financial crisis. A concern that we need to continue to monitor the ongoing effects and consequences of the crisis A concern that we gather information in a timely fashion of the human level impacts A concern that we also understand and communicate about policy/agency responses Part of Reimagining Development

The Purposes of a Crisis Watch Network To create and grow a network of concerned policy thinkers, academics and activists who are involved in monitoring and acting on the ongoing effects of the 2008-09 crisis. To create a platform to share knowledge on: frameworks for understanding crisis; methodologies for generating evidence; and methodologies for designing and implementing policy/practice. To accumulate evidence on the differentiated human-level impacts of crises (differentiated by country, by sector, by population e.g. men, young people, women, children, disabled).

The Aims of this Workshop To begin building the Crisis Watch network and discuss how to make it function better. To allow current network members to share knowledge on: frameworks for understanding crisis methodologies for generating evidence methodologies for designing and implementing policy/practice.

Why Human Level Impacts Because the macro stats tend to tell us too late that bad things have happened Because we need to focus on the ways that human lives are impacted Because we anticipate shifting vulnerabilities as both short and longer term consequences of the crisis Because effective policy for development must comprehend the social and economic processes that lead vulnerabilities to translate into harmful poverty or negative human development

What Issues/themes? Attribution The nature of differentiated impacts What constitutes good evidence Macro successes and micro harms Resilience: Individuals, households and systems