ACAPS (Assessment Capacities Project), NRC Contribution 2023 - 2025

Humanitarian aid should be provided on the basis of assessed needs. Impartial, unbiased, comprehensive, context-sensitive, timely and up-to-date needs assessment and analysis are critical to support decision making in humanitarian contexts. 

While significant efforts have been made in the past years, the application of current approaches and tools falls short of meeting the decision-making requirements for various stakeholders for both programming and funding. And while the number of reports produced per crisis has more than doubled in the past years, the humanitarian system lacks analytical capacity.

All humanitarian workers, influencers, fundraisers, practioners, donors and relevant stakeholders so that they are enabled to respond more effectively to crisis and disaster.

Effective humanitarian action is mobilised through a better understanding of crisis and through use of knowledge and perspectives gathered for and from affected people.

Main strategic directions: 

1. Strengthen the humanitarian narrative
2. Connect and convene the analysts
3. Advocate and innovate
4. Evolve into fit-for-purpose organisation

Resultados previstos:  

Output 1: Strengthened evidence base for humanitarian action through the provision of quality analysis. 

Output 2: Expanded scale, reach and capacities for analysis though actively forming new partnerships and networks and strengthening existing ones. 

Output 3: Advocated for open data while being cognisant of data protection and ethics as well as for a highly principled humanitarian approach.

Output 4: Organisational culture developed based on values and emphasizing agility in ways of working, partnership and data driven decision making.

Resultados de las fases anteriores:   Since its launch in 2009, ACAPS has become a leading provider of high-quality independent needs analysis. It continuous to push for evidence based decision-making while strengthening the sector’s assessment ecosystem. Today, ACAPS evaluates the situation of over 100 key emergencies worldwide to help anticipate and respond to emerging crises. ACAPS runs a number of Analysis Hubs with a focus on the Yemen crisis, the conflict in Colombia, the Rohingya refugees crisis, and the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.