4.8 USING RAPID ASSESSMENT CHECKLISTS

OBJECTIVES

  • Participants can describe the use and limitations of rapid assessment checklists.
  • Participants can apply criteria to refine rapid assessment checklists for use in a specific emergency context.

OUTLINE

Checklists provide ready-made questions to use, or points of information to explore in a rapid assessment. Generic tools always have to be adapted to a specific context. This should be a key part of emergency preparedness planning, with tools adapted and developed for the highest risks. This part of the module has only one session that provides a practical experience in adapting checklists. The exercise builds on participants' understanding of criteria for selecting indicators, with a particular effort to prioritise these indicators for a rapid assessment in an emergency. The focus of the exercise is to reduce checklists to cover only the priority information needs in a particular context. Unless it is too sensitive politically, ideally this session should use scenarios for emergency response that are realistic for and known to participants.

SESSIONS

4.8.1 USING EMERGENCY RAPID ASSESSMENT CHECKLISTS

See text above for Part 4.8 "Outline".

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  • Revising checklists

    Participants will have to prioritise criteria for the review of existing checklists. Participants will then be divided in smaller groups and receive a checklist and the description of a concrete scenario. They will be tasked with reviewing and adapting the checklist to the scenario. An optional step can have them identify any relevant capacity issues that the checklist should cover. Groups provide feedback to plenary. The session can be adapted to help a country team develop a draft checklist. Final discussion focuses on limitations in using checklists.

    • CCS
  • Refining emergency rapid assessment checklists
    • OH
  • Refining emergency rapid assessment checklists
    • EX
  • Group exercise instructions: Refining emergency rapid assessment checklists - 3-4 weeks
  • Group exercise instructions: Refining emergency rapid assessment checklists - 72 hours
  • Sample checklist -- Shelter


    • REFERENCE MATERIALS

    UNICEF (May 2002), drafts Rapid Emergency Assessment Modules. UNICEF East and Southern Africa Regional Office: Nairobi