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The Role of an Information Management Officer in Humanitarian Response

This document defines the broad concepts and role of Information Management in the context of a humanitarian response. It provides recommendation on ways forward for strengthening information management, and concludes with overarching guidance on the role of IM within the context of a typical…

  • Coordination: Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Strategic Planning

Participatory Approaches

Using participatory approaches in impact evaluationmeans involving stakeholders, particularly the participants in a programme or those affected by a given policy, in specific aspects of the evaluation process. The term covers a wide range of different types of participation, which differ in terms…

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

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

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

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

Ethical Principles, Dilemmas and Risks in Collecting Data on Violence against Children

Ethical guidelines are crucial when carrying out research on violence against children (VAC). This literature review is a contribution to the foundations for the development of such ethical guidelines. It aims to capture current thinking around ethical issues and provide empirical support to guide…

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

Building an Effective Assessment Team

The purpose of this document is to provide team composition definitions and descriptions of the functions that need to be filled in to perform a joint rapid assessment in the first weeks of a disaster. This technical brief is designed to guide the first steps of assembling an assessment team,…

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • 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

Rapid Assessment Sampling in Emergency Situations

The aim of this paper is to give the reader some ideas about the key points and principles related to sampling that need to be considered when carrying out a rapid assessment in an emergency situation.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis

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