Needs assessment
11.1 Highlights
Highlights
- Relevance: Needs assessment is a type of evaluation that provides information on the relevance of an intervention based on the needs and priorities of the communities it serves.
- Needs assessment: It can be a prospective exercise, analyzing the relevance of an intervention before implementation, or it can assess the relevance of an existing intervention based on an analysis of socio-ecological characteristics.
- In changing contexts: Where life—humans, animals, and plants—is threatened, environmental conditions and their relationship to interventions should be integrated into needs assessments. Furthermore, recognizing that disruptive climate change events will occur more frequently and impact the risks communities face, a prospective approach, including socio-environmental scenarios, should be implemented when assessing an intervention’s relevance.
