Humanitarian Needs Assessment

ACAPS

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781780448633
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface: Why and how to use Humanitarian Needs Assessment – The Good Enough Guide
• Chapter 1. What is needs assessment?
• Chapter 2. Steps to a good enough needs assessment
• Chapter 3. Tools
• Resources
• About ACAPS and ECB