A Guide To Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results

A Guide to Assessing Needs is intended to be a user’s guide for the ill-defined “front end” of development projects that starts with an initial concept and ends with a decision about the best path forward. From deciding to propose a sanitation project in South Asia to selecting approaches that strengthen school management in South America, decisions are the starting place of development. Filled with practical strategies, tools, and guides, this book covers not only large-scale formal needs assessments but also smaller, less-formal assessments that can guide daily decisions. It will be of particular interest to development practitioners.