“ tipping point ” of stability at which the designers of the MPICE framework envisioned that intervening forces would be less needed . The MPICE framework also provides suggestions of potential data collection methodologies to use to gather information on the indicators ( i . e . surveys , expert knowledge , quantitative data , and content analysis ). It is a flexible framework , with over 600 different measures that can be tailored to suit a particular environment , but broad enough to give a more complete picture than some programspecific metrics frameworks .
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At the beginning of the use of MPICE in HSI , multiple agencies reviewed the goals and indicators , selecting and agreeing on measures . Some of the goals and indicators proposed in the MPICE framework were not appropriate for Cité Soleil and as such were adapted . In 2008 , the monitoring and evaluation ( M & E ) team assessed an initial baseline for HSI ; since the M & E process was integrated into the project after it had already been running for several months , however , the degree to which a true baseline could be measured was limited . However , the data from the first M & E phase was successful enough that a second phase of data collection was conducted . On 12 January 2010 , the team was about to start a phase 3 assessment of HSI when the catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti . This devastated many people in the environment and also delayed data collection for the project . HSI assessment sessions were still run after the earthquake , but in the earthquake aftermath , phase 3 reported downward trends .
This earthquake was not the only exogenous factor to interrupt HSI . During the same timeframe as the HSI program , there were national food riots in 2008 , four tropical storms / hurricanes within a onemonth timeframe in 2009 , and over 1.3 million people displaced and 100,000s killed by the 2010 earthquake . The entire data set was literally thrown up in the air due to these events . It made it even more difficult to assign correlation or causality to any increase or decrease in stability from a particular program such as HSI , because so many other factors in Haiti affected overall stability in the nation , the capital , and the zone of Cité Soleil .
Beyond these environmental factors , variance in data collection methodologies also proved challenging . Surveying in Port-au-Prince was relatively feasible if hiring a local agency . However , obtaining national statistics such as crime rates was much more challenging , since many such reports were non-existent , and others did not report data for specific sections of the city such as the Cité Soleil zone .
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