55 Assessment, monitoring and evaluation This workshop will look at how assessment is undertaken and implemented Vietnam, 2000 (no notes)

Workshop objectives ! The key learning objectives of this workshop are to form an understanding of and share experience about: Presentation: scope and context of AME Workshop: 2a. monitoring 2b. evaluation 2c. coordination 2d. access 2e. capacity 3. Presentation: Assessment criteria and activities assess monitor evaluate (no notes)

Workshop objectives ! The key learning objectives of this workshop are to form an understanding of and share experience about: Presentation: scope and context of AME Workshop: 2a. monitoring 2b. evaluation 2c. coordination 2d. access 2e. capacity 3. Presentation: Assessment criteria and activities assess monitor evaluate (no notes)

Assessment within strategy 55 Assessment within strategy Transitional settlement and reconstruction after natural disasters (United Nations, 2008) Strategic planning objectives Handover Coordination Legal framework Critical path analysis Strategic, programme and project plan Transitional settlement and reconstruction Scenarios AME (no notes) Resources Participation Schedule for implementation

Assess, monitor and evaluate what? Nicaragua, 2007 To inform response, it is necessary to maintain understandings of a series of interrelated categories of information: Risk: mapping of hazards political or social unrest security issues Affected & hosted populations: number location vulnerabilities needs and priorities skills and capacities Damage: Scale, degree and form of damage to both housing and infrastructure Government & humanitarian resources: structure and coordination capacity Stockpiled resources location quantity Construction industry materials production contracted capacity community capacity (no notes)

Scope and context Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards for Disaster Response (The Sphere Project, 2004) An overview of assessment, monitoring and evaluation: every organisation has its own procedures for assessment, monitoring and evaluation (AME) emergency shelter is rarely covered in depth in the standards assessments of organisations the shelter and settlement assessment criteria in the Sphere Standards offer common reference to an accepted resource technical specialists need to advise on how to develop AME plans specific to each response, based upon such standards, principles, operating procedures and expert knowledge The three main barriers to effective AME are usually: coordination to implement an effective response access to the affected population capacity of stakeholders to undertake assessment Dozens of different AME techniques available - pick one, commit to it, and keep it updated Emergency shelter (unsurprisingly) is rarely specifically represented among AME

Workshop objectives ! The key learning objectives of this workshop are to form an understanding of and share experience about: Presentation: scope and context of AME Workshop: 2a. monitoring 2b. evaluation 2c. coordination 2d. access 2e. capacity 3. Presentation: Assessment criteria and activities assess monitor evaluate (no notes)

15 mins Discussion Discussion in groups Each group will undertake a SWOT analysis of a different consideration: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats Group 1: Monitoring responses Group 2: Evaluating responses Group 3: Coordinating assessment Group 4: Access in assessment Group 5: Capacity in assessment SWOT also known as SWOC (Constraints instead of Threats) It’s an analytic tool to help understand a situation Access, e.g. Macedonia: can’t get to site because open fighting, but need to order materials for the site! Each group agrees a key point Key point

Workshop objectives ! The key learning objectives of this workshop are to form an understanding of and share experience about: Presentation: scope and context of AME Workshop: 2a. monitoring 2b. evaluation 2c. coordination 2d. access 2e. capacity 3. Presentation: Assessment criteria and activities assess monitor evaluate (no notes)

Selecting criteria for each assessment There are existing lists of questions developed to select useful criteria for assessment: ‘The UNHCR Tool for Participatory Assessment in Operations’ (UNHCR, 2006) Shelter, Settlement and non-food items initial needs assessment checklist in ‘Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response’, The Sphere Project, 2004, p. 238-243 Tick boxes helpful, but make sure people can also include comments (if you have the capacity to process that data) Core criteria for assessments in ‘Transitional Settlement: Displaced Populations’, Corsellis and Vitale, 2005, p. 145-168

11 assessment activities Transitional settlement and reconstruction after natural disasters (United Nations, 2008) Review existing information 2. Coordinate with others 3. Identify stakeholders and vulnerable groups 4. Decide what information to collect Prepare for fieldwork Select the areas to visit Choose tools and methods Gather the information Analyse the information Consolidate and validate the findings Conclude and make recommendations A general list to help frame your assessment endeavors

Bibliography ‘Transitional Settlement Displaced Population’ (Corsellis and Vitale, 2005) ‘Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards for Disaster Response’ (The Sphere Project, 2004) ‘Transitional Settlement and Reconstruction After Natural Disasters' (United Nations, 2008) (no notes)