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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

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

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

Maps for Advocacy: An introduction to Geographical Mapping Techniques

Organisations worldwide face great challenges. One of these is how best to communicate and disseminate information to communities, staff, funders, governments and other organisations in a world saturated with information, media and advertising. The power of geographic and spatial information design…

  • Coordination: Information Management

Adamawa State Floods: Education Sector Snapshot - October 2022

n 2022 the flash flood began early in Adamawa in the Month of July. Heavy rainfall alongside the release of water from the Lagdo Dam in Cameroon have caued the flooding. State Emergency Management Agency reports that an estimated 171, 000persons are affected, while 89,000 hectares of farmlands are…

  • Emergency: Floods

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