Emergency Needs Assessment Planning (ENAP)  

Guidelines for Emergency Needs Assessment Planning: FR - ENG

CThis guide on Emergency Needs Assessment (ENA) provides Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) staff, volunteers and practitioners with best practices for onducting effective needs assessments in disaster and crisis situations. It covers the entire assessment process, from understanding the context to sharing findings and evaluating the assessment itself.

The guide emphasises a flexible and adaptable approach, recognising that ENA methodologies must be tailored to the specific operational needs and context of each emergency. It offers a structured framework, the “Assessment Workflow,” which guides the process through five key steps: Contextualise, Design, Collect, Analyse and Share. Each step is explored in detail, highlighting key activities and outcomes, alongside relevant tools and resources.

The guide also outlines different types of ENA, including initial, rapid and in-depth assessments, as well as additional evaluation considerations such as Rapid Market Assessments (RMA) and Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCA). It stresses the importance of data preparation, ethical and safe data collection practices and effective data management and analysis.

Training modules: FR - ENG

The folder containing the training modules is organised as follows:

• Training preparation guide

• Agenda

• Training modules

  • Welcome; Introduction; Understanding ENAs; ENAP process and strategy; Data analysis games

  • Step 1: Contextualise

  • Step 2: Design

  • Step 3: Collect

  • Step 4: Analyse

  • Step 5: Share

  • Simulation exercise

  • Response options analysis

  • ENAP roadmap workshops

• Training facilitation guide for the trainers

• Knowledge test

• Training evaluation

• Various options to include in the training

  • Option 1 - Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA), Protection, Gender and Inclusion (PGI) - resources

  • Option 2 - Introduction to Kobo - resources

  • Option 3 - Bias games - resources

  • Option 4 - Green response - resources

• Report of the training (examples)

• Other examples simulation exercises