Humanitarian Needs Assessment
The Good Enough Guide
What assistance do disaster-affected communities need? This book guides humanitarian field staff in answering this vital question during the early days and weeks following a disaster, when timely and competent assessment is crucial for enabling informed decision making. Needs assessment is essential for programme planning, monitoring and evaluation. In an emergency response, however, a quick and simple approach to needs assessment may be the only practical possibility – in other words, it needs to be ‘good enough’. This guide does not explain every activity needed to carry out an assessment, but it describes the assessment process, and provides a step-by-step guide through the process. It also contains a number of tools and resources that may be helpful when planning or carrying out humanitarian needs assessments. This guide is essential reading for field staff carrying out assessments after a humanitarian crisis; it should also be read by humanitarian policy makers, students, lecturers and researchers.
Published: 2014
Pages: 96
eBook: 9781780448626
Paperback: 9781853398636
| Prelims [Acknowledgements |Preface: Why and how to use Humanitarian Needs| Assessment – the Good Enough Guide | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. What is needs assessment? | |||
| Needs assessment | |||
| Decision-making | |||
| A disaster-affected community | |||
| Good enough | |||
| Basic principles of needs assessment | |||
| 2. Steps to a ‘good enough’ needs assessment | |||
| Step 1 Preparing for an assessment | |||
| Step 2 Designing your assessment | |||
| Step 3 Implementing your assessment | |||
| Step 4 Analysing your data | |||
| Step 5 Sharing your findings | |||
| 3. Tools | |||
| Tool 1 How do I prepare my organization for an assessment? | |||
| Tool 2 How do I develop an assessment plan? | |||
| Tool 3 What skills and characteristics do my assessment team/working group need? | |||
| Tool 4 How do I train my assessment team? | |||
| Tool 5 How can I give disaster-affected communities a voice? | |||
| Tool 6 How do I collect secondary data? | |||
| Tool 7 How do I collect primary data? | |||
| Tool 8 How do I select affected sites and vulnerable groups? | |||
| Tool 9 How do I organize a field visit? | |||
| Tool 10 What support does my assessment team need? | |||
| Tool 11 What equipment does my assessment team need? | |||
| Tool 12 What technology should I use? | |||
| Tool 13 How can I ensure a high-quality assessment? | |||
| Tool 14 How should I share my assessment findings? | |||
| Tool 15 What should I put in my assessment report? | |||
| Back Matter [Resources |Key resources| Standards and guidance|Initiatives |Glossary |For your notes] |
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