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.

Author: Acaps, Paul Currion
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Published: 10/15/2014
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.30w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781853398636
ISBN10: 1853398632
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief