Introduction to Humanitarian Needs Assessments and Analysis
Already over
The course aims to introduce you to the processes, skills and knowledge required to design and implement Assessment and Analysis (A&A) processes, with particular focus on making sense of available information and reports in humanitarian emergencies coming from field locations. Therefore, it relies on the broad experience of ACAPS (initially: "The Assessment Capacities Project”), using guidance from ACAPS Technical Briefs and the Humanitarian Needs Assessment – The Good Enough Guide (GEGA) – as backdrops. The pedagogical approach will follow a mixture of introductory presentations and group work, including the work on case studies.
The course is targeting headquarter based staff in humanitarian organisations. Consequently, the discussion will be centred around assessment methods and approaches using secondary data, open access data analysis.
The course is planned as face-to-face training on 22 and 23 April 2024.
You will learn
how to describe main activities related to the various steps of the analysis workflow and the analysis spectrum
how to use simple techniques to collate, process and analyse quantitative and qualitative data
how to use the different steps of the analysis spectrum in humanitarian analysis to ensure better sense making of findings
Target group
Staff of humanitarian NGOs with previous experience in humanitarian action and/or project management. Focus on staff in Germany who manage projects or programs remotely.
Schedule
Day 1
- Basic principles & Assessment & Analysis (A&A) design
- Exercise using Analysis Canvas
- Humanitarian needs analysis & analysis frameworks
- Exercise on analysis planning
Rolf M. Bakken, Consultant in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs
Lecturer
Rolf has 20 years of experience with disaster management and humanitarian assistance, in particular with emergency response, needs analysis, and coordination of disaster operations. He works with methodology development and training-design focusing on participatory learning methods and action-based learning. He has worked for OCHA/UNDAC in both complex emergencies and emergency responses to sudden onset disasters. Rolf worked for ACAPS as an assessment expert on the Syria Needs Analysis Project in 2013-14, and in subsequent years as a Senior Analyst on the response to Cyclone Idai in Mozambique 2019, the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020, and for the ACAPS Ukraine Analysis Hub. His last mission was to the Türkiye earthquake in 2023 and he is currently the Project Manager for the ACAPS Syria/Türkiye EQ project.
410,00€
22.4.2024 - 23.4.2024
14 hours of training
Catering included
Maximum of 16 attendees
14 of 10 required registration for this course. You will be informed after registration. Share this course with friends and colleagues to make sure it will be carried out.
Location
This training is organized by Aktion Deutschland Hilft e.V.