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HEALTH CLUSTER COORDINATION TRAINING
May 2019, Brazzaville
Needs Assessment and Analysis: What information is needed?
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What is a need?•A lack of…
•A deficiency
in…
•A problem
of…
•An issue related
to…
•A gap in…
•A shortage of…
Morbidity is growing among IDPs and health facilities are no available or too far.
Gap defining need
Where is the need?
IDPs need medical support and access to health facilities.
Response defining need
Preferred state Actual state
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What is a Humanitarian Needs Assessment
A mixed method process to collect and
triangulate information in order to:
• Measuring need or better say measuring severity
of need
• Establishing priorities
• Inform decision making and strategy
• Establishing a system for monitoring needs and
response
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How am I going to use the info from NA?
Which decision levels?
Strategic
Programmatic/ Tactical
Operational
Strategic response planning,
policies, goal settings, common situation overview,
resource mobilisation
Programme planning,
delivery methods, targeting and conditionality,
etc.
Project implementation,
local
partnerships, monitoring,
training, etc.
Less
More
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What information do I need?5
People in Need of assistance (How many? Where are they living?)
Vulnerable population groups (age, sex, ethnicity etc.)
Pre- and post disaster, living conditions (survival needs, type of accommodation, assets)
Population movement (displacement etc.)
Losses (house, items, livestock etc.)
Status of basic services (Health, education, electricity, mobile etc.)
Primary Effects (Magnitude, Intensity, range, severity etc.)
Secondary Effects:
Damages (basic infrastructure, physical assets etc.)
Secondary hazards
Service disruption (water, electricity, mobile etc.)
Aid delivery (population targeted, reached, geographical breakdown, humanitarian actors / 3W)
Capacity to respond (Government, UN, IO, NGO’s, LNGO’s, Private sector etc.)
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.)
Security and physical constraints (road block, airports, security advisory/restrictions etc.)
Affected areas (breakdown of affected areas and severity)
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What information do I need for health NA&A?
6
Scope and scale of crisis
Conditions of affected population
Capacities and response
Humanitarian access
People in Need of assistance (?)
Vulnerable population groups (.)
Pre- and post disaster, living conditions ()
Population movement (
Losses (
Status of basic services (.)
Crisis Impact Operational environment
Primary Effects ()
Secondary Effects:
EXAMPLE
Damages (.)
Secondary hazards
Service disruption (
Aid delivery (population)
Capacity to respond (.)
Affected people access to aid and aid actors access to people (
Security and physical constraints (.)
Affected areas ()
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And what about analysis?
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Planning the analysis….
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Key
questions
Secondary
sources Comparisons
Info or
indicator
Primary
sources
Question in questionnaire
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5. Sample analysis plan
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JOINT ANALYSIS
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What is
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Why is it
important
Identi
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Collate and
structure
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Analysis Process
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Working with
data….
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Analysis means to compare...
• But what do we compare?
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What cannot be compared
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What can be compared
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Thanks! • Comments and suggestions
• https://www.who.int/health-cluster/resources/publications/PHIS-
Toolkit/en/