{"product_id":"9781853398636","title":"Humanitarian Needs Assessment: The Good Enough Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat assistance do disaster-affected communities need?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book guides humanitarian field staff in answering this vital question during the early days and weeks following a disaster, when timely and competent assessment is crucial for enabling informed decision making. Needs assessment is essential for program planning, monitoring and evaluation. In an emergency response, however, a quick and simple approach to needs assessment may be the only practical possibility—in other words, it needs to be “good enough”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis guide does not explain every activity needed to carry out an assessment, but it describes the assessment process and provides a step-by-step guide through the process. It also contains a number of tools and resources that may be helpful when planning or carrying out humanitarian needs assessments. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis guide is essential reading for field staff carrying out assessments after a humanitarian crisis; it should also be read by humanitarian policy makers, students, lecturers and researchers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Practical Action Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096623452400,"sku":"9781853398636","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781853398636","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}