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Estimation of the humanitarian caseload
Understand the humanitarian profiling system
The cluster caseload represents the total number of people targeted by all partners of a cluster for the planned response. It should not be confused with the Population in Need (PIN), or the population reached or covered:
- WASH People in Need is the total number of people in need for WASH assistance during a humanitarian crisis. They usually cannot be all reached, because of lack of capacity or access problem.
- A more realistic target is therefore defined for the response, called caseload, or population targeted
- People reached by one or several more activities are called the population reached, even if these activities are not done using agreed standards, and do not produce the expected change.
- When people are reached by activities done according to agreed standards and leading to the expected change for the beneficiaries, they can be considered as “covered”
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Important differences between PIN and caseload can often be noticed. To increase the caseload figures , advocacy must be made to increase capacity and improve access, especially for priority areas, involves not only advocacy at all levels to gain access but also to enhance the capacity of partners with adequate resources, skills and tools do so.
Use data on capacity to make a first caseload estimation
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In each geographical zone, an estimate of the number and operational capacity of WASH partners, and define defining the maximum number of people that can be reached by the partners :
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can be done if the maximum number of people is:
- above the PIN, then use the PIN number as your caseloadIf this maximum number of people is : and
- lower than the PIN, then use maximum number of people than can be reached as your caseload.
Use data on access to make a final caseload estimation
In the same way as for capacity, as estimation of the planned access to target area is required to calculate the WASH caseload: even if capacity of partners is high, if they cannot reach the affected area because of bad road access in rainy season, risk of kidnaping kidnapping or attacks on humanitarian convoys, then only a small portion percentage of the population can be reached.
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