Assessment

Assessing Local Capacity and Reconstruction
Assistance in Post-tsunami Aceh

Report of the Aceh Community Assistance
Research Project (ACARP)
December 2007

Participating Agencies

Many thanks to those who have helped in the understanding of the personal changes and perceptions of aid experiences from by filling in the returnees questionnaire for the University of Nottingham res

Thank you to all those who have contacted me about your experiences and have contributed to researching the unique experiences of aid workers post mission.

This is an update on the upcoming forum by Nerea Craviotto for the WIDE Network (www.wide-network.org):

Training Course (in English)
The Dynamic COMPAS and the Quality COMPAS
(quality assurance method and software for humanitarian projects)

23 - 27 June 2008 in Plaisians (Provence)

This Newsletter is a summary and analysis of trends in economic development in international co-operation policy.

If (and that's a big if) thiswill work, it could revolutionise the way we do recons and assessments.

MDF-ESA is a training and consultancy organisation aiming to enhance management capacities of professionals and organisations working in the development sector in Eastern and Southern Africa.

CALL FOR PAPERS ON GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES

On behalf of Perspectives on Global Issues, a journal founded and edited by graduate students from New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, we would like to announce our call for papers for the spring issue of the journal, of which the focus is global issues of health.

The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative has added a new 30 page “Links” pdf document to the IPCR Website (see the “top of page” navigation, at www.ipcri.net). (Note: The "Links" document is also an attachment to this post).

Many years ago there was a tribe of people who were experiencing challenges that were threatening their very existence.

During this “time of fear”, a young woman experiences a vision—of a bird which says to her “You must all leave where you are, and travel to a place far away… You must look for the tree at the center of the sacred hoop. You will know when you have found this tree when you hear birds singing on the branches of a tree, and you understand their song.”

CARE, Benfield Hazard Research Center, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Peacebuilding & Development Institute Present

Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment in Disasters

Date: January 11th-12th, 2008

Hello,
I am seeking assistance with designing an assessment for a forced labor, sex trafficking, and sexual assault program my organization wishes to undertake. The organization is familiar with conventional assessment methodologies from the development/humanitarian sphere, but is unsure to what extent they are transferable to a scenario where those being assessed are in dangerous, often life-threatening circumstances; unable to communicate freely with assessors; and might be frightened by assessors. We are also wondering how best to determine sampling tools when the target populations (of both perpetrators and victims) is of unknown size, difficult to target, and difficult to define.

"Livelihoods Assessment and Analysis" is the fourth of a series of food security e-learning courses, with related training resources, produced by the EC-FAO Food Security Programme.

The course is completely self-paced and is available free of charge online or on CD-Rom at: http://www.foodsec.org/dl