08 Jul, 2019

2014 Humanitarian Needs Assessment Good Enough Guide - ACAPS and Emergency Capacity Building Project This guide is written for field staff carrying out assessments in the early days and weeks following a disaster. It is especially aimed at national project managers and their teams. This guide does not explain every activity that you will need to carry out for your assessment, but it will help you through the assessment process. You can use it to take you through the whole assessment or to help at particular points in the process.

27 Mar, 2024

The gender-based violence (GBV) in emergencies analytical framework (GBViE AnF) is an overarching guide to GBV data collection and analysis in humanitarian emergencies. It provides guidance on gathering crucial insights for the prevention of, and response to, GBV in emergencies, setting out the analytical questions and specific information requirements that can be met through either primary data collection or secondary data review. While it is not a data collection tool, the framework can be applied to identify GBV information gaps.

17 Jul, 2019

10 Jul, 2019

This document include the following content: Section 1: Introduction to GBV Assessments in Emergencies provides an overview of GBV assessments in emergency contexts, including: different types and timing of assessments; types and sources of information; and methods for collecting it. Section 2: Good Practice in GBViE Assessments overviews basic good practice such as participation, ethics and safety and a survivor-centred approach. Section 3: How to Do GBViE Assessments describes the steps to follow when (a) integrating questions about GBV into sectoral assessments and (b) conducting rapid or comprehensive GBV assessments in emergency situations. Section 4: Rapid GBViE Assessment Tools contains sample tools for conducting UNICEF-led rapid GBV assessments. Section 5: Comprehensive GBViE Assessment Tools contains sample tools for conducting UNICEF-led comprehensive GBV assessments.

08 Jul, 2019

The Operational Guidance promotes a coordinated approach to assessments in order to address a number of recurring issues during emergencies. For example, there is not so much a lack of assessment information as a lack of capacity to validate and analyse the information necessary to determine priorities and guide planning of the humanitarian response. Likewise, certain populations or situations are over-assessed while others are never measured at all. Also, assessment data is all too often insufficiently shared or used, and data sets from different assessments are not comparable. Finally, there is insufficient time to aggregate data from multiple assessments, information needs are not sufficiently prioritized and data collection processes are cumbersome.

16 Jul, 2019

31 Mar, 2022

Adolescents – young people between the ages of 10 and 19 – have specific needs that are distinct from those of younger children and adults. This transitional and developmental period is increasingly seen as an “age of opportunity”1 globally and in humanitarian settings, because of the significant individual and intergenerational implications of adolescent development. Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) – giving beneficiaries cash or vouchers as an alternative to in-kind assistance such as food, blankets and direct services – is used increasingly in humanitarian settings. While CVA shows promise for addressing adolescents’ needs, a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of CVA on the protection and wellbeing of adolescents is critical. In particular, evidence is needed on how CVA should best be designed to draw on the assets and capacities of adolescents and ensure that any context-specific associated risks for adolescents can be mitigated through program d...