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Questionnaire Design: How to design a questionnaire for needs assessment in humanitarian emergencies

The questionnaire is a critical tool in humanitarian response and requires time, resources and a detailed understanding of the context, factors which are all in short supply during an emergency. This technical brief aims to support the design of questionnaires for use in humanitarian emergencies by…

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

Myanmar Education in Emergencies Sector Caseload Description

This document provides a step-by-step description and rationale for calculating the total number of people in need of EiE assistance in Myanmar in 2017.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • Emergency: Complex
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning
  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

Joint Education Needs Assessment: Signed Consent Form Template

Signed Consent Form Template developed by the Global Education Cluster

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

Joint Education Needs Assessment: Checklist for Managing Data Collection

The Joint Education Needs Assessment:Checklist for Managing Data Collection contains a list of administrative, operational and logistical considerations should help the assessment coordinator while managing primary data collection. It is not exhaustive and can be used in conjunction with the…

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

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

Education Humanitarian Needs Overview Methodology Description

This document provides a step-by-step description for calculating the total number of people in need of Education in Emergencies (EiE) assistance for the 2017 Nigerian Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO). It is a working progress and subject to change based on new information/data and forthcoming…

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • Emergency: Conflict, Displacement
  • 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

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