Recommended Type of Coordinated Assessment | Coordinated assessment preparedness (part of contingency planning) | Initial assessment (“snapshot diagnosis”) | Rapid assessment - Multi cluster/sector initial rapid assessment (MIRA)
- Joint assessment
| In-depth assessments - Single cluster/sector coordinated in-depth assessments, harmonized across Clusters/Sectors (single agency assessments should be coordinated by cluster coordinators), with (early) recovery considerations
- Harmonised (and Joint) assessments
| Continued in-depth assessments - Continued single cluster/sector coordinated in-depth assessments, with (early) recovery considerations, harmonized across Clusters/ Sectors (single agency assessments should be coordinated by cluster coordinators)
- Harmonised (and Joint) assessments
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Purpose | - Preparedness planning and gathering of pre-crisis data to ensure readiness to respond in a coordinated manner
| - Estimate scale and severity of the impact of the event,
- Locate affected populations
- Inform initial inter-sectoral analysis and prioritization, response decisions and appeals,
- Inform the MIRA in Phase 2
| - Inform initial planning of humanitarian response and highlight priority actions (e.g. for 3 months)
- Define focus for follow-on phase 3 in- depth assessments
| - Analyse situation and trends,
- Adjust ongoing response and appeals
- Inform detailed planning for humanitarian relief/early recovery
- Establish baseline for operational and strategic performance monitoring
- Specify any needs for more in-depth sub-sector analyses
| - Analyse situation and trend.
- Inform phasing out of life- sustaining activities
- Inform detailed planning for humanitarian relief and (early) recovery (and transitioning to recovery and development)
- Feed into performance monitoring
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Decisions to be Informed | - Who will do what, where and with what resources when the emergency occurs.
- How will assessments and response will be coordinated and prioritized
| - Immediate response actions
- Initial appeals (e.g. Flash appeal)
- Support donors’ decisions
- Mobilisation of technical and management expertise for assessments and initial response
- Inform national government’s communication/ messaging
| - Response actions (e.g. first 3 months)
- Geographic targeting
- Beneficiary selection criteria and systems
- Response implementation and monitoring systems
- Revised appeals
- Support donors’ decisions
- Communication strategies
| - Response actions (more detailed proposal planning)
- Support donors’ decisions
- Support and inform cluster partners fund raising
- HCT agenda
- Government agenda
| - HRP (and Mid-Year Review)
- PDNA/PCNA and National Early Recovery / Reconstruction Plan
- Transitional planning (LRRD)
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Assessment Level | | | | - Community/HH/individual level
| - Community/ HH/individual level
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Sources and Assessment Methods | - Prepare and agree on assessment formats, indicators and tools
- Organize trainings on assessment tools (through simulations, tabletop exercises etc.)
- Establish procedures and responsibilities
- Prepare key humanitarian indicators and
- Gather baseline data
- Prepare fact sheets and lessons learned as relevant
| - Mostly secondary data sources with primary data from remote sensing and direct observation in a limited number of purposively selected site
- Expert interpretation of initial reports and remote data
| - Mix of secondary and primary field data (collected jointly from selected locations, spread across affected areas)
- Rapid appraisal methods only (i.e. key informant interviews, observation, and (focus) group discussions)
| - Increasingly primary data sources, such as monitoring systems and joint assessments. The latter will now also include representative sampling
- Household level survey and rapid appraisal methods
| - Increasingly primary data sources and joint assessments include representative sampling
- Household level survey and rapid appraisal methods
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Overall Output | - Assessment preparedness plan agreed by HCT
- Pre-crisis data compiled (at ICCG level)
| - Situation Analysis (within 3 days)
| - MIRA Report (within 14 days)
- Initial analysis of main problems, risks and gaps – initial planning scenario
| - Sector/cluster reports
- Comprehensive analyses of problems, risks and gaps – updated planning scenario
| - Sector/cluster reports
- Up-dated analyses and planning scenario (ongoing, regular)
- Post-Disaster Needs Assessment and Recovery Framework (PDNA/RF)
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Food Security Specific Information Output | - Baseline data on food security situation, capacity to respond
- Impacts of previous similar crises
- Likely food security impacts of new crisis
- Lessons from previous response operations
| - Outputs include (as possible):
- Nature and scale of expected response requirement
- Priority needs, areas and population groups
- Estimation of number of people affected
- Expected duration of needs
| - Initial food security situation analysis: numbers, impacts, causes, forecasts, risks
- Updated planning scenario
- Initial food security response analysis including options, capacities, constraints, likely effectiveness and efficiency
| - FSC strategic approaches further defined
- Joint interagency or inter cluster assessments
- Joint interagency or inter cluster situation analysis
- Gaps/Duplication Matrix
| - Recovery progress monitoring
- Impact evaluation
- Identification of new / projected needs
- Challenges to recovery and triggers to initiate recovery-oriented strategies
- Institutional capacity analysis
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Use of the Information | | - Preliminary sector response strategy (for response in the first few days)
- Flash appeal
| - Initial sector response strategy
- Adjustment of initial response
- Specific project proposals
- Revised flash appeal
| - Detailed sector response strategy
- Refinement of ongoing projects
- Additional project proposals
- Revised flash appeal
| - Updated sector response strategy, projects and appeals (Flash appeal: 3-6 months, after this, HNO/HRP )
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Examples | Pre-disaster secondary data (See examples from Bangladesh on Cyclone, Flood, waterlogging) | - Multi Sector: Initial MIRA
- FS Specific: WFP 72-Hr Assessment
| - Multi Sector: MIRA
- FS Specific: Rapid EFSA
- Other: EMMA and RAM
| FS Specific: Rapid EFSA Other: EMMA and RAM
| - Multi Sector: MSNA (mainly protracted crises)
- FS Specific: In-depth EFSA , CFSAM , SMART
- Other: EMMA
- See note below*
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