This workshop will look at how assessment is undertaken and implemented

1. Assessment, monitoring and evaluation 55 Vietnam, 2000 This workshop will look at how assessment is undertaken and implemented

2. Workshop objectives monitor evaluate ! • The key learning objectives of this workshop are to form an • understanding of and share experience about: • Presentation: scope and context of AME • Workshop: • 2a. monitoring • 2b. evaluation • 2c. coordination • 2d. access • 2e. capacity • 3.Presentation: Assessment criteria and activities assess

3. Workshop objectives monitor evaluate ! • The key learning objectives of this workshop are to form an • understanding of and share experience about: • Presentation: scope and context of AME • Workshop: • 2a. monitoring • 2b. evaluation • 2c. coordination • 2d. access • 2e. capacity • 3.Presentation: Assessment criteria and activities assess

4. Assessment within strategy • 55 Strategic planning objectives Handover Coordination Transitional settlement and reconstruction after natural disasters (United Nations, 2008) Legalframework Critical path analysis Strategic, programme and project plan Transitional settlement and reconstruction Scenarios AME Resources Participation Schedule for implementation

5. Assess, monitor and evaluate what? To inform response, it is necessary to maintain understandings of a series of interrelated categories of information: • Risk: • mapping of hazards • political or social unrest • security issues • Affected & hosted • populations: • number • location • vulnerabilities • needs and priorities • skills and capacities • Damage: • Scale, degree and form of damage to both housing and infrastructure • Government & humanitarian • resources: • structure and coordination • capacity • Stockpiled resources • location • quantity • Construction industry • resources: • materials • production • contracted capacity • community capacity Nicaragua, 2007

6. Scope and context • An overview of assessment, monitoring and evaluation: • every organisation has its own procedures for • assessment, monitoring and evaluation (AME) • emergency shelter is rarely covered in depth in the standards assessments of organisations • the shelter and settlement assessment criteria in the Sphere Standards offer common reference to an accepted resource • technical specialists need to advise on how to develop AME plans specific to each response, based upon such standards, principles, operating procedures and expert knowledge • The three main barriers to effective AME are usually: • coordination to implement an effective response • access to the affected population • capacity of stakeholders to undertake assessment Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards for Disaster Response (The Sphere Project, 2004)

7. Workshop objectives monitor evaluate ! • The key learning objectives of this workshop are to form an • understanding of and share experience about: • Presentation: scope and context of AME • Workshop: • 2a. monitoring • 2b. evaluation • 2c. coordination • 2d. access • 2e. capacity • 3.Presentation: Assessment criteria and activities assess

8. 15 mins Discussion Key point Each group will undertake a SWOT analysis of a different consideration: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Group 1: Monitoring responses Group 2: Evaluating responses Group 3: Coordinating assessment Group 4: Access in assessment Group 5: Capacity in assessment Discussion in groups Each group agrees a key point

9. Workshop objectives monitor evaluate ! • The key learning objectives of this workshop are to form an • understanding of and share experience about: • Presentation: scope and context of AME • Workshop: • 2a. monitoring • 2b. evaluation • 2c. coordination • 2d. access • 2e. capacity • 3.Presentation: Assessment criteria and activities assess

10. Selecting criteria for each assessment There are existing lists of questions developed to select useful criteria for assessment: ‘The UNHCR Tool for Participatory Assessment in Operations’ (UNHCR, 2006) Shelter, Settlement and non-food items initial needs assessment checklist in ‘Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response’, The Sphere Project, 2004, p. 238-243 Core criteria for assessments in ‘Transitional Settlement: Displaced Populations’, Corsellis and Vitale, 2005, p. 145-168

11. 11 assessment activities • Review existing information • 2. Coordinate with others • 3. Identify stakeholders and vulnerable groups • 4. Decide what information to collect • Prepare for fieldwork • Select the areasto visit • Choose tools and methods • Gather the information • Analyse the information • Consolidate and validate the findings • Conclude and make recommendations Transitional settlement and reconstruction after natural disasters (United Nations, 2008)

12. Bibliography ‘Transitional Settlement Displaced Population’ (Corsellis and Vitale, 2005) ‘Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards for Disaster Response’(The Sphere Project, 2004) ‘Transitional Settlement and Reconstruction After Natural Disasters' (United Nations, 2008)