10.2 Basic information checklist
Checklist
At a minimum, the assessment team should gather and analyse basic information outlined below. See also section 10.6 for more information on assessment checklists.
General humanitarian situation
- Location and conditions of disaster area
- Affected population-size, demographics, location (disaggregated by gender and age)
- Impact of disaster-physical, social, economic, political, security, environmental
- Capacities and vulnerabilities of disaster-affected population
- Priority needs of women, men, boys and girls-food, water and sanitation, shelter, health
- Contextual information-gender roles and relations, cultural issues, conflict and power dynamics, violence, discrimination and protection issues, civil-military relations
Response to date
- Organisation and response of disaster-affected community, with perspectives from both women and men
- Response of responsible authorities
- Local NGOs
- International NGOs
- UN agencies
- Donors
- Other actors-for example, military
Operating conditions
- Security analysis
- Availability of (or damage to) logistics infrastructure-ports, roads, airports, warehousing
- Market conditions and availability of relief items locally
- Availability of support infrastructure-office, accommodation, telecommunications infrastructure, transportation
- Relevant government regulations and requirements for operations
- Cost estimates for budget development
- Availability of skilled personnel
