Results Monitoring Surveys

UNHCR’s Results Monitoring Surveys (RMS) facilitate and harmonise monitoring of household survey-based impact and outcome level indicators from the Global Results Framework.

The RMS support COMPASS, UNHCR’s results-based management approach, and are an important contribution to the Data Transformation Strategy. 

While the RMS do not directly monitor progress of UNHCR and funded partners’ interventions, they help us tell the bigger story by providing insights on how the lives of forcibly displaced and stateless people are changing.

Any operation that needs to collect survey-based data on any population group for their multi-year strategies’ results frameworks can run the RMS.

• UNHCR colleagues are advised to consult the Programme Handbook, results indicator guidance as well as guiding questions to determine the need and frequency interval for RMS implementation.

Operations can implement RMS either as a stand-alone survey or by integrating relevant questions from the RMS standard questionnaire into other types of (joint) data collection exercises.

UNHCR colleagues will find detailed step-by-step advice as well as the complete package of tools and templates for planning, designing and implementing Results Monitoring Surveys in the RMS design and implementation management guidance.

The following RMS materials, which are particularly relevant for UNHCR’s survey partners, are also hosted on the resource centre:

• RMS basic sampling guidance and sampling decision tree
• RMS key considerations before deciding on survey modality
• RMS standard questionnaire
• RMS communicating with communities template
• RMS considerations for ethical data collection
• RMS translation protocol and template
• RMS survey partner inception report template
• RMS survey partner data collection report template
• RMS data preparation and cleaning tool

UNHCR colleagues can access the RMS intranet page to find additional resources and learn more about the RMS.