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IDENTIFYING AND TREATING DOUBLE COUNTING

Examples from different CARE Countries

When it is possible to quantify and deduct the double counting between projects/initiatives:

DEDUCTION method (best option when possible)

Map/Make a list of all your projects/initiatives.
Identify all those projects/initiatives that overlap (work with the same population and in the same location, having overlap on reach data and/or impact/outcomes data).
Quantify and deduct the double counting between the overlapping projects/initiatives.
When required, report data considering the analysis of double counting. See examples here below on how different countries have identified overlap between projects/initiatives and arrived at figures that do not carry double counting:

Examples assessing double counting in India, Ethiopia, Niger,Yemen and Zimbabwe

When it is NOT possible to quantify and deduct the double counting between projects/initiatives:

UMBRELLA method (second-best option)

Map/Make a list of all your projects/initiatives.
Identify all those projects/initiatives that overlap (work with the same population and in the same location, having overlap on reach data and/or impact/outcomes data).
Identify the largest/most representative project/initiative from all of those projects/initiatives that overlap and use it as “umbrella” for reporting (one project reports all participants and the others zero).

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GROUPING method (third-best option. Useful in cases where we have many small pots of funding in one action, for example, humanitarian response)

Map/Make a list of all your projects/initiatives.
Identify all those projects/initiatives that overlap (work with the same population and in the same location, having overlap on reach data and/or impact/outcomes data).
Group the overlapping projects and report them collectively. This will help you eliminate the risk of duplicating figures of participants if each project reported data individually.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When you select this method and report multiple projects in one, you lose the ability to identify any data that is specific to the individual projects/contracts that are part of the grouping.