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South Sudan Education Needs Assessment- Term of Reference

"The key objective of this assessment is to get an understanding of the situation of education and impact of two and half years of violence and displacement on the sector that: Specific objective 1: Provides key findings for external stakeholders to understand the situation, inform proposals and…

South Sudan Assessment Working Group Terms of Reference

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…

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.

Joint Education Needs Assessment Terms of Reference Template

Draft and agree-upon a ToR which should include: a brief background to the assessment, objectives, proposed sampling strategy and geographic coverage, data collection technique, expected outputs, roles and responsibilities, and timeframe. It is important to draft this ToR early in the assessment…

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…

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…

Guidance Note on Data Visualization

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

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…

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.