The UNHCR Tool for Participatory Assessment in Operations

Publication language
English
Date published
01 May 2006
Type
Websites
Keywords
Accountability to affected populations (AAP), Participation, Forced displacement and migration, Needs assessment, Urban
Countries
Global
Use in Humanitarian Programme Cycle
Needs assessment & analysis
Organisations
United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR)
Link
http://www.unhcr.org/450e963f2.html
This Tool outlines a series of steps to follow for conducting a
participatory assessment with refugees or other persons of
concern. If applied systematically, it will ensure that women
and men of all ages and backgrounds are given the opportunity
to identify and voice their own protection risks, priorities, and
solutions, and thus participate meaningfully in the development
of the annual COP. While some offices already hold regular
consultations with different groups of refugees, this Tool
provides additional guidance with the aim of promoting a more
systematic approach to participatory assessment and of assisting
in systematizing the findings for more effective incorporation
into planning processes.

The overall goal of this Tool is to assist offices in
strengthening partnerships with persons of concern, in
gathering baseline data for age, gender, and diversity analysis
and in developing the most appropriate protection strategies
through:

Analysing protection risks and incidents together with
persons of concern;

Involving refugees in the design, planning, implementation,
monitoring, and evaluation of services throughout the
programme cycle;

Being accountable to the populations that UNHCR serves.