Iasc cluster approach evaluation, 2nd phase april 2010

Executive Summary
Introduction
Method
Background
Findings
Conclusions
Recommendations

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“There [are] needs assessment 
projects/frameworks/
initiatives/studies/ tools 
lurking beneath every desk in 
Geneva - and still they come, 
funded by the same donors 
that funded the previous 
ones, involving ever-changing 
combinations of UN and  
non-UN agencies”  
(Survey Participant)
  5.4 Little coordination of needs assessments
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Good needs assessments are a precondition for adequate response. Much effort is 
invested at global level to create joint or coordinated needs assessment frameworks 
to  make  it  easier  to  compare  crises  and  improve  the  quality  and  coherence  of 
needs  assessments  (see  box  6).  Global  clusters  can  contribute  to  these  efforts, 
while clusters at the national and sub-national level can support project-level or 
area-based assessments and facilitate the sharing of results, reduce duplications 
in  needs  assessments,  facilitate  peer  review  and  learning  on  needs  assessment 
methods or facilitate the implementation of joint needs assessments. 
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