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Humanitarian Profile Support Guidances

The objective of this guidance is to provide an overview of definitions, methods and good practice on how to derive overall, inter-sectoral humanitarian population figures. These include estimates of the number of people affected by a given emergency as well as in need of, targeted by and reached…

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy, Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

Guidance Note on Sampling Strategies

Sampling is the process of collecting information from a subset of the entire population; this allows you to collect data from a significantly reduced number of locations and informants, cutting costs and time, while still obtaining needed information. This guidance note focuses on three types of…

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

Guidance Note on Data Visualization

A useful guidance document to help you select the best chart to visualise your data.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis
  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

Education Cluster Assessment Inventory Tool

Prior to conducting an assessment, contact relevant actors and find out who has, is or will be conducting an assessment, what methodologies and tools they are using, and their geographic focus. Record these assessments in the assessment inventory tool (see below) which should significantly help you…

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

Data Cleaning

This document provides guidance for data analysts to find the right data cleansing strategy when dealing with needs assessment data. The guidance is applicable to both primary and secondary data.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis

Child and Youth Participation Resource Guide

This guide presents resources on child and youth participation from Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Australia and the Pacific. Most of the materials are available in electronic form and have been included in the CD-ROM that is part of this guide. The main audiences for this…

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

Calculating People in Need Guidance

Guidance and instructions to help coordination teams calculate people in need of EiE.

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy, Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

Assessment Working Group Terms of Reference Template

"To help identify key decisions and information needs and reach consensus on their prioritization, create an Education Cluster AWG, even if undecided about conducting an assessment. This template is designed to help you create your Assessment Working Group ToR. The template will need to be…

  • Coordination: Cluster Management, Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

ACAPS Questionnaire Design Summary

This summary provides an overview of the basic rules to build an effective questionnaire. It is divided into three parts: purpose and principles of questionnaire design, the ten steps of designing a questionnaire and a set of do’s

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

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