IM Update from the Field: UNHCR North
Sub-office
29th of August 2016
Rapid Needs Assessment Trial
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Secretariat
Activates
Mechanism
Summary
of Data
Persons Newly
Arrived on Site
Sector
Response
Feedback
at InterAgency
Geo-Split of
Areas of
Responsibility
April/ May 2016
May 12th – 19th
End of May/ June - Response
Initial Reflection
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• Can be used as standalone tool, must not replace normal referral
mechanisms, or tools used (observation in the field).
• Time frame for Contingency Planning
• How can we respond, under current assistance criteria?
• Individual Assistance vs. Blanket Assistance for All?
• PCODE/ GPS location is essential – use at all times.
• What is the main message you want to communicate with partners,
externally and internally?
• Focal Point to coordinate – who goes where, when do they go, why are
they going, what has been collected, who can see the data? (Response)
• Sectors probably will have to go out again – but WASH, HEALTH, FOOD,
SHELTER are key and require a fast response.
• When do we move on from an emergency situation to stabilizing
situation?
Mapping of Services
• Mapping of Infrastructure data – schools, SDC, CDC, PHC, SHC
• Map other sector specific data that is useful for other sectors.
• 3Ws – Shelter and WASH
• Legal Aid Partners
• Outreach Volunteers – where they are based
• Mapping of Risk and Resources – UNDP
• Conflict Mapping – UNDP
• Education – Rehabilitation Information
• Using Google Earth – requires user to download the application and
the kml file.
• Updates every three months, officially (as and when data is available)
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Referral Mechanisms
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• Library of documents related to referrals – SOP, flow
diagrams, contact lists...but why?
• Information to partners
• Information for ourselves – new staff
• Getting processes from the staff – onto paper.
• Maybe a base to start from discussing the wider referral
process.
• https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8d754tzlky9zz0o/AAALh
M7463nIOtPxDXKE-ulra?dl=0
• Continuous process of updating – moving it from IM to
sector leads.
Mapping Urban Areas
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• Current location names vs. neighbourhoods for example:
• Abou Samra, Shok, Bahsas, Zeitoun, Tripoli – in one
cadaster.
• Different scales cadaster, urban area, metropolitan,
neighbourhood area – makes reporting confusing.
• Potential Issues:
• How do you know which boundaries to endorse?
• How does someone living in a neighbourhood, know
that they are living in that neighbourhood?
• Can sectors use their boundaries and get endorsement
that way? Can we model population figures based on the
new boundaries?
I there a need for mapping at neighbourhood level?