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People-Centred Approaches in Humanitarian Coordination: Reviewing and Improving Cluster Performance

This matrix and accompanying presentation and facilitation notes can be used to help national clusters to review and assess their performance and prioritise actions to ensure people are at the centre of the cluster's work. The matrix uses the Core Cluster Performance Management (CCPM) survey as the…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Partner Project Peer Review Template

This document provides short guidance and a template for the peer review of Cluster partner project sheets which usually takes place as part of Humanitarian Response Plan or Flash Appeal processes. This is a key part of the harmonization process and will help ensure a quality and coordinated…

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning

Localisation in Coordination

"The World Humanitarian Summit recognised that increased localisation is fundamental to the delivery of a dignified and effective humanitarian response, concluding that humanitarian action should be “as local as possible, as international as necessary.” The associated Grand Bargain emphasized the…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy, Inter-Sector Coordination
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Localisation

Education Cluster Strategy Template Instructions

This document contains walkthrough instructions for how to compile and style your Education Cluster Strategy and is intended to be used alongside Education Cluster Strategy Template

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning

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

QGIS Tutorial: How to Join an Excel File to a Shapefile

A useful walkthrough on how to join your data in excel to a Shapefile in QGIS to start creating a map.

  • Capacity Development: Trainings and Resource Materials
  • Coordination: Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, 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

Inter-Sector Integration Tip Sheet

Clusters/Working Groups should have direct conversations with each of the different sector’Technical Advisors to ensure that activities are planned in an integrated fashion wherever possible. Identify activities that are complementary to each other, discuss them with the team at large during team…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy, Inter-Sector Coordination
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Strategic Planning

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 on Working with Governments

How can a Cluster promote partnership with (sub-)national governments?Close coordination and collaboration with government efforts in a humanitarian response is an essential part of the cluster approach. The nature of these links will depend on the emergency context and the willingness, capacity…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management, Leadership
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Resource Mobilisation, Strategic Planning

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