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Multi-Cluster Common-Joint Inter-Agency Rapid Initial Damage Needs Assessment Forms

8 December 2010. Multi-Cluster Common-Joint Inter-Agency Rapid Initial Damage Needs Assessment Forms. Overview presentation. Assessment task forces at the global level “ground breaking” assessments currently underway Ongoing support to assessments in the Pacific

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Multi-Cluster Common-Joint Inter-Agency Rapid Initial Damage Needs Assessment Forms

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  1. 8December 2010 Multi-Cluster Common-Joint Inter-Agency Rapid Initial Damage Needs Assessment Forms

  2. Overview presentation • Assessment task forces at the global level • “ground breaking” assessments currently underway • Ongoing support to assessments in the Pacific • Presentation of the assessment tool • Group discussions about the proposed assessment tool OBJECTIVE: Survey the basic constraints and obtain suggestions for community sampling methods, and obtain feedback on suggested method on how to ask questions TOMORROW: detailed review of questions by cluster to pull apart/remove /add indicators

  3. Multi-Cluster Assessment taskforces at the global level • ACE – OCHA’s Assessment and Classification in Emergencies • Identifies the assessment phases: • Preliminary Scenario Definition (first days) • Joint Multi-Sector Rapid Initial Assessment (1-14 days) • Joint Expanded Sectoral Assessment (>14 days) • NATF – Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s “Needs Assessment Task Force” (builds on ACE) • Main outputs: • Agreed upon list of basic recommended ‘indicators’ to be used for specific assessment phases • Strengths: • Exhaustive list of “indicators” needed for humanitarian programming in Initial Scoping phase, and Rapid/Initial Joint Assessments. • Aligned along IASC clusters (ie indicators important for Protection in the initial phase are …) • Main weakness: • Long list of indicators ! • Does not include indicators relevant to national authorities like Infrastructure, or Communications

  4. Assessment and Classification in Emergencies

  5. Assessment and Classification in Emergencies

  6. The Needs Assessment Task Force

  7. Ground Breaking Assessments • Post Disaster Needs Assessment (Haiti) • McRAM – Pakistan with Gender Module • Solomon Islands Joint Assessment from Initial Response and Assessment cluster • But: • First two are large scale, household surveys with massive international support and considerable budgets • Last one is locally developed and difficult to scale up (because of difficulty to capture text in a large scale survey) • So: • There is a need to develop a tool which is useable by individual countries, scalable (easy to process), and incorporates latest developments

  8. Work done until today • Based on requests formulated during the DIMS and PPDRM workshops and observations / discussions with NDMOs and NGOs/UN • Assessments are time-consuming – and long turn around times • Assmt logistics are costly • Often times, assmt forms are kept at provincial level and synthesis report is sent • Govt resources are scarce – intra governmental joint assessments are essential • Free text forms are used to collect detailed information – non predictable and data varies with assessment officer • Starting from Initial Assessment Forms in the Pacific: • Developed a community-level questionnaire for phase 2 common joint assessments. • Incorporates recommendations from IASC work groups • Incorporates feedback from a wide variety of experts on assessments. • Started developing a simple excel-based tool for analyzing the data received (will also feed into the questions and products raised yesterday)

  9. Presentation of the Proposed Assessment Tool • Method for conducting interviews: • Community level group interview • Identifies key persons in community to interview • 3 phase interview: Group questions Questions to sex-disaggregated groups Walk around community for visual inspection • Method for selecting communities: • To be developed • Data is then sent to central unit for processing (Fax / Scan): • Data entered into Excel database • Graphs automatically generated

  10. Presentation of assessment tool Cont’d • Content….

  11. Group Discussions • 3 groups (20 min): • Is the method for conducting interviews ok? • What do you do, how should we describe the method for sampling communities / Deciding which communities do you interview? • Do we need a method for the interview teams? A different method for different disasters? Shall we keep it loose, but monitor where they are assessing? Subsidiary topics (as this will be covered tomorrow) • Is the general content ok? What is good, what could be lost • Are you interested in the development of a country specific form for your country? • Information flow from the field … how should this work

  12. Thank you

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