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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

Memorandum of Understanding for MALI Education Cluster Lead and Co-Lead Arrangement

In line with the global agreement, UNICEF and Save the Children have also been designated as Lead and Co-Lead Agencies respectively of the Mali Education Cluster, The present Memorandum of Understanding outlines the modalities for the Lead and Co-Lead arrangement.

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management, Leadership
  • Emergency: Conflict
  • HPC: Strategic Planning, Cluster Management, Leadership

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

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

Mali Education Cluster - Magpi Mobile Data Collection Lessons Learned

In August 2014 the Mali Education Cluster conducted a sector needs assessment in Mali’s Kidal region using Mapi. This report contains lessons from this assessment.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Information Management, Knowledge Mangement
  • Emergency: Conflict
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

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

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

Building an Effective Assessment Team

The purpose of this document is to provide team composition definitions and descriptions of the functions that need to be filled in to perform a joint rapid assessment in the first weeks of a disaster. This technical brief is designed to guide the first steps of assembling an assessment team,…

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

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