1. Online Session 3.1: Planning for Needs Assessment and Analysis
Tuesday, 15 May
10h00 – 12h00 (Geneva time)
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2. Establishing context specific baseline

3. Planning: Establishing context specific baseline
Exercise (3 minutes)
What is baseline?
One example of baseline?

4. a known state by which something is measured or compared. 
a benchmark which is used as a foundation for measuring or comparing current and past values.
a minimum or starting point used for comparisons.

5. Planning: Establishing context specific baseline
Establish or update Common Operational Dataset (COD’S)

6. Where to find COD’s https://data.humdata.org Go to HDX
Pick a location(Country)
Click on COD’s
Note what data sets are avaialable

7. What are the challenges of establishing baselines?

8. Availability of needs & response data and info gaps

9. Planning: Availability of needs and response data
Before Crisis data & info
Before crisis data
In-crisis data
Other CODs
Disaster data
Impact data
Access data 4W
Assessments
Displacement
Common Operational Dataset (COD)
(Core)
Common Operational Dataset (COD)
(Other)

10. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK (MIRA)
Planning: Availability of needs and response data
Analytical framework of information categories for secondary and primary data analysis.
Crisis Impact
Operational environment
Scope and scale of crisis
Conditions of affected population
Capacities and response
Humanitarian access
EXAMPLE
Affected people access to aid and aid actors access to people (interference to provide aid, violence again relief agencies, general conditions, population cut off logistically etc.)
Primary Effects (Magnitude, Intensity, range, severity etc.)
People in Need of assistance (How many? Where are they living?)
Aid delivery (population targeted, reached, geographical breakdown, humanitarian actors / 3W)
Secondary Effects:
Vulnerable population groups and risks (age, sex, ethnicity etc. what are the risks)
Population movement (displacement etc.)
Capacity to respond (Government, UN, IO, NGO’s, LNGO’s, Private sector etc.)
Pre- and post disaster, living conditions (survival needs, type of accommodation, assets)
Losses (house, items, livestock etc.)
Security and physical constraints (road block, airports, security advisory/restrictions etc.)
Secondary hazards
Status of basic services (Health, education, electricity, mobile etc.)
Service disruption (water, electricity, mobile etc.)
Damages (basic infrastructure, physical assets etc.)
ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK (MIRA)
Affected areas (breakdown of affected areas and severity)

11. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK (MIRA)
Analysis
Outputs

12. 3W Presence Organization Cluster Sub-sector Location
At this basic level, the 3W Operational Presence (3W:OP) can enable organizations to help identify potential partners, quickly give a very rough understanding of an on­going response, and superficially identify potential overlaps or gaps in response.

13. 3W/4W- beneficiary based
Response data by target vs reach beneficiary

14. http://www.ocha-sy.org (Power-Bi)
Example of Response Data

15. https://www. humanitarianresponse
(ActivityInfo)
Example of Response Data

17. https://reliefweb. int/sites/reliefweb

19. What are your experiences of collecting response data from partners?

20. Localize Coordinated Assessment Strategy

21. Forming localize Coordinated Assessment Strategy
Pre-requisite
Leadership and decision makers commitments
Coordination structure
Understanding of stakeholder capacity
Understanding of OCHA’s internal capacity
Buy-in and ownership
State of needs assessments
Geographic scope of crisis
AIM WG

22. Coordinated assessments
Uncoordinated
Multiple assessments
Multiple methodologies
Multiple reports
Not systematically shared
Harmonised (coordinated)
Multiple assessments with common indicators
Various interoperable methodologies
Single or multiple reports
Joint (coordinated)
Common assessment form
Common methodology
Common report
A “coordinated assessment” is an assessment planned and carried out by humanitarian actors in partnership, in order to document the impact of a particular crisis and identify the needs of affected populations. The results of the assessment are shared with the broader humanitarian community. The term “coordinated assessments” includes both joint and harmonised assessments (Operational Guidance for Coordinated Assessment in Humanitarian Crisis, IASC 2012)
CLICK 1: Uncoordinated assessments are the reason why guidance on coordinated assessments was produced. In uncoordinated assessments, data sets are not interoperable, (CLICK 2) and the results can not be used to inform the overall analysis. It is nearly impossible to provide an overview of needs based on uncoordinated assessments, especially at the beginning of an emergency, if assessments reports are not shared or not well documented regarding their location, methods, and data.
CLICK 3: In harmonised assessments, data collection, processing, and analysis is undertaken separately, however the data is sufficiently comparable (due to the use of common operational datasets, key indicators, and geographical and temporal synchronisation) to be compiled into a single database, (CLICK 4) and to be subject to shared analysis.
CLICK 5: Joint assessment: data collection, processing, and analysis form one single and common process among agencies. This leads to a common report. (CLICK 6) This is sometimes also referred to as a ‘common assessment’.
CLICK 7: Such assessments range from inter and intra-cluster/sector joint assessments (e.g. Haiti, Typhoon Yolanda, Pakistan) to intra-cluster assessments (e.g. Education Joint needs assessment in CAR, and lot of others)
Increased coordination
IASC Ops Guidance on Coordinated Assessments 2012

23. Types of assessment In-depth Assessment Initial Assessment
Within 72 hrs of disaster/event
Change in status quo of situation
Significant humanitarian event
Gauge the scale and severity of the crisis
Locate affected populations
Identify key affected sectors and main issues
Rapid Assessment
Within 2 weeks after disaster/event
Change of status quo
Significant humanitarian event
Scope and scale of crisis/disaster
Severity of affected areas
Needs of different population groups
Key priorities of affected population
Identify critical problems
In-depth Assessment
In-stable conditions
project development
programme development
Sector assessments
Precise programmatic information
Generate population stats and forecast
Highlight issues in-depth

24. Q&A / Discussion
Challenges of implementing harmonize assessments and joint assessments?