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

2. 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

3. 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 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).

4. 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.

5. 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

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