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Sometimes it is possible to employ local staff who are not otherwise involved in the simulation to play the role of affected community members.
It may be particularly valuable to ask these local staff if they have family who might be able to help out as well.
If both male and female individuals (ideally of various age cohorts) are represented in the “affected community,” then one can can work into the simulation debriefing and/or follow-up training sessions cross-cuttinig issues of age and gender disaggregation in assessment data collection and analysis and in any follow-up response proposals.
Role-playing the Affected Population / Community
If there are individuals available who can role-play members of the affected population (and of the communities that are hosting the affected in a displacement scenario), it would be extremely useful to have one or more of these individuals at each of the two (or in some simulations, three) assessment sites.
As the assessment missions are generally carried out in the early stages of the simulation, these “affected population” role-players would need to be available only through lunch.
These role-players should be briefed on:
- the areas from which they were supposedly displaced (or in which they are the resident “hosts”)
- their age, livelihoods, family situation (etc.) prior to the crisis
- the reasons for their displacement
- what they lost due to the displacement and what they brought with them
- their current needs
These role-players should be sufficiently knowledgeable about the area and population to be able to make up needs information statements on the fly in response to participants’ assessment questions.
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