1. 55 Assessment, monitoring and evaluation
This workshop will look at how assessment is undertaken and implemented
Vietnam, 2000
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2. 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
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3. 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
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4. Assessment within strategy55
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
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Resources
Participation
Schedule for implementation

5. 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
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6. 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

7. 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
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8. 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

9. 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
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10. 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
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

11. 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

12. 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)
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