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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

Guidelines for Children’s Participation in humanitarian Programming

The guidelines support emergency preparedness efforts to strengthen staff and partners’ capacity to support meaningful children’s participation, and include tips and and tools to enhance meaningful children’s participation in the emergency response and in transitions to relief, reconstruction and…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy, Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Ethical Research Involving Children

This compendium, together with the associated website (see: http://childethics.com), has been specifically designed to provide a rich repository of evidence-based information and resources to guide and improve research involving children.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Education Cluster Monitoring Tool (3W) Guidance Note

3Ws, also known as 4Ws and 5ws (Who is doing What, Where, When and for Whom?) are essential to the work of Clusters. This guidance note provides one example of a 3W database and how it could be used.

  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring

Contact List Guidance

This guidance will help walk you through how to use the contact list template

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

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

The Child Friendly Community Assessment Tools: A Facilitator’s Guide to the Local Assessment of Children’s Rights

This guidebook describes a detailed step-by-step process for broadly assessing and monitoring children’s living conditions in communities of cities and towns of different sizes as well as in rural communitie. The assessment process outlined in the guidebook enables the collection of community level…

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis
  • Technical Areas: Protection

OCHA Graphics Style Book for Public

The Graphics Style Book is for OCHA staff who focus on information management (IM) and geographic information systems (GIS). It will help IM/GIS officers improve the quality of their information products and deliver consistent visual design across OCHA. The book explains best practices in design…

  • Coordination: Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

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