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Needs Assessment Workshop

Conducting accurate, effective and timely assessments is key to the preparation and planning of humanitarian projects and can be the basis for a coherent monitoring process.

 

Numeric Code: 08014
Date: 23 to 26 March 2009
Length: 4 Days
Location:
UK
Residential/Non-Residential: Non-residential
Suitable for:
Those who have experience of working in a relief context and who are likely to carry out needs assessments in their work.
Course covers:

This course aims to improve the effectiveness of personnel engaged in humanitarian relief by taking you through good practice in assessment procedure, including frameworks and principles of emergency assessments.
 
There are four main themes:

 

  • Organisation and management - objectives of the assessment, terms of reference, planning assessment activities, information collation, report writing.
  • Data collection techniques - how they work, when to use them and the meaningfulness of the data they produce.
  • Analytical frameworks that determine the focus of the assessment and the way assessment information translates into programme response and helps establish indicators for measuring progress, impact and relevance.
  • Sector-specific issues - data collection methodologies and analytical frameworks that are most appropriate to each sector, links between sectors, and benchmarks, especially SPHERE.

 

  

Location: RedR office, Vauxhall London.  Registration will take place at 09.00 hrs and training will begin at 09.30 hrs on the first day.  Each day will finish by 17.30 hrs.

 

 

Course outcomes:

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

 

  • identify and describe a good approach to the carrying out of emergency assessments.
  • compare and contrast commonly used assessment frameworks, tools and techniques including planning and preparation for assessment missions.
  • define and apply underlying principles of emergency assessments.

 

The course is planned and run by the RedR UK training team, with associate trainers including specialists in both needs assessment and relief work. 
 


Participatory training methods are used, including group exercises and focused discussion. The course is intensive, with participants being given the opportunity to share ideas and experiences, both within sessions, and informally.

 

 

Cost:
Please see below for details of workshop fees. The fees include all training and materials, morning and afternoon breaks and lunch on each day. Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel to and from the venue, and accommodation if required.

Course Fees

 

 

Band A £260
Band B £360
Band C £550
Band D £660

 


 

For more on price bands please click here

 

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If you have any questions please contact the training team:
email:   training@redr.org
phone:  +44 (0)20 7840 6000