Friday

1. Friday Information in Disasters Workshop Tanoa Plaza Hotel, Suva, Fiji June 2011

2. Video ASM_TsunamiVideo_2009_ParkingLotSurveillanceCamera Introduction to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

4. Workshop Objectives Participants are familiar with roles and responsibilities, particularly regarding information during humanitarian emergencies • Roles and Responsibilities of Humanitarian Cluster Lead Agencies, and who they are • Requirements on government agencies Participants are familiar with principles of coordinated assessments • Harmonized and Joint assessments • Principle building blocks of coordinated assessments • Assessment phasing over time, and implications on methodology, data quality and reliability Participants are familiar with information requirements for humanitarian assessments and programming • Which key indicators have been identified by sectors • Where can the indicators be found • How and when are they used, what to do if they're not available Foster the relationship between National Statistics Offices, Disaster Management and Humanitarian Clusters • Raise awareness of NSO publications and encourage their usage and dissemination • Explore data processing capacities of NSOs in support of disaster management • Draw up a road map for information management in disastersWhat next ?What of analysis?

5. Outputs Definitive "best source" for key humanitarian indicators by country (for Tonga, Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands) • Table of indicators filled in with source of data for Secondary Data Analysis • Indication of best way to monitor these variables during emergencies Definitive list of publications from Statistics offices and data tables • List by country of the latest available data that can be used by all humanitarian actors Humanitarian Analysis Plan plan for each country present • Identification of best offices to be involved in analysis of joint assessment material

6. This morning

7. Group discussion Taking the Guidelines for harmonizing assessments • Key actions for harmonizINGassessments... • Establish an assessment coordination structure or collaboration mechanism: • Designing, planning and managing, when required, a joint multi-cluster initial or rapid assessment. • Promoting the harmonization of assessments, including through the use of common operational datasets and sectoral indicators. • Sharing results from needs assessments undertaken, as well as information on needs assessments being undertaken/ planned. • Serving as a forum for open analysis of the humanitarian situation. • Ensure geographical and temporal synchronization • Survey of Surveys • Use consistent set of data sets on administrative boundaries, humanitarian profile, population statistics etc. • Common Operational Datasets • Use agreed sectoral indicators • Key Humanitarian Indicators • Collate data from multiple assessments and conduct a shared analysis • Key actions for harmonizEDassessments... • Ensure geographical and temporal synchronization of assessments • Use a consistent set of common operational datasets: • administrative boundaries, • Humanitarian and socio-economic profile, • Population statistics etc. • Use a consistent set of agreed sectoral indicators • Establish a process for collating data from multiple assessments • Establish a process for conducting a shared analysis of data. • Define analytical objectives: what does the final report look like? What variables are being reported

8. Common OperationalDatasets Common operational datasets are predictable, core sets of data needed to support operations and decision-making for all actors in a humanitarian response. QUESTION FOR TODAY: Defining the data requirements of harmonized assessments and Discussion and presentation of current analysis structure in countries Group feedback on data sources, identified harmonized datasets and current analysis structure. (45 min discussion – 15-20min/group for feedback)