This assessment toolkit is based on, adapted from, and in some significant parts directly taken from the following two documents: Inter-Agency Standing Committee (2011), Interagency emergency child protection assessment toolkit: Focus group discussion guide and the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium (2004), Gender-based Violence Tools Manual: For Assessment, Program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation in Conflict-Affected Settings.
The content of this guide supplements and reinforces existing IFRC disaster assessment tools such as the Operational Guidance: Initial Rapid Multi-sectoral Assessment; Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA); and Integrating Climate Change and Urban Risks into the VCA. Given that each emergency and context is unique, this guide is designed in parts that can be used in pieces or as a whole based on the discretion of the assessment team. The most important part addresses the perspectives of local communities – guidance is outlined for asking seven essential questions when time is limited and more detailed questions are available for situations where greater time is available. Issues that are mainstreamed in this guide are: gender, diversity and child protection.