According to Need?Needs Assessment and Decision-Making in the Humanitarian Sector

This report records the results of a year-long study on the link between needs assessment and decision-making in the humanitarian sector. The study derives from an existing HPG initiative and from the Humanitarian Financing programme commissioned by the Montreux Group of donors, funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) and the Australian government’s overseas aid department AusAID. It is based primarily on the results of a series of case studies, the reports on three of which (on South Sudan/Somalia, Southern Africa and Serbia) can be accessed through the ODI website, at www.odi.org.uk/hpg. Much of the detailed evidence for the conclusions reached in this report is contained in the case studies. These were supplemented with a range of interviews with agencies, donors and others, and a review of relevant documentation and secondary sources.