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The Role of an Information Management Officer in Humanitarian Response

This document defines the broad concepts and role of Information Management in the context of a humanitarian response. It provides recommendation on ways forward for strengthening information management, and concludes with overarching guidance on the role of IM within the context of a typical…

  • Coordination: Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Strategic Planning

Participatory Sessions with Children - Template

"Conducting KIIs or FGDs with children and/or young people should be quite different than KIIs or FGDs with adults; they should be age-appropriate. Use art, drawing, theatre and other similar activities to allow the children to express issues and concerns in a safe and non-distressing manner.…

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Participatory Approaches

Using participatory approaches in impact evaluationmeans involving stakeholders, particularly the participants in a programme or those affected by a given policy, in specific aspects of the evaluation process. The term covers a wide range of different types of participation, which differ in terms…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

How to Approach a Dataset: Part1 - Database Design

his technical note provides guidance in how to set up a simple database suitable for storing small amounts of data as may be generated by a rapid assessment with relatively small sample sizes.It is aimed at supporting non-specialists in information management with a working knowledge of spreadsheet…

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

Guidelines for Children’s Participation in humanitarian Programming

The guidelines support emergency preparedness efforts to strengthen staff and partners’ capacity to support meaningful children’s participation, and include tips and and tools to enhance meaningful children’s participation in the emergency response and in transitions to relief, reconstruction and…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy, Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Ethical Research Involving Children

This compendium, together with the associated website (see: http://childethics.com), has been specifically designed to provide a rich repository of evidence-based information and resources to guide and improve research involving children.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Contact List Guidance

This guidance will help walk you through how to use the contact list template

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

Compared to what: Analytical Thinking and Needs Assessment

This technical brief is based on three years of experience in analysing needs in emergency settings. It is the first of three ACAPS documents on the analysis of humanitarian needs. Readers are advised to complement this reading with the technical brief How Sure Are You?which explores how to judge…

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

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