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Humanitarian aid workers are faced with many challenges, from possible terrorist attacks to dealing with difficult stakeholders and securing operational space free from violence. To do their work properly and safely, they need effective intelligence. Humanitarian intelligence refers to the use of investigative and analytical techniques in service of rapid and continuous assessment, project and program development, impact evaluation, and learning. It focuses just as much on how to use early warning indicators to assess risks, evaluate trends, and write early warning analyses as it does provide guidance on the operational design of humanitarian relief efforts. Further, operational security depends on the intelligence analysis. Unlike governments, NGOs' resources are very limited. Humanitarian intelligence officers hardly have any literature detailing useful current standards and important tools for their analysis needs. Humanitarian Intelligence is the first to provide an overview and a practical guide to the tools and methods of data gathering and assessment, standards of measurement in humanitarian action, interpretation strategies, and operational planning tools. Short hypothetical cases and practical examples illustrate and explain the tools detailed in each chapter.
Additional resources including case studies and teaching tools are available online at http://humanitarianintelligence.net .
List of contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Tools and Step-by-Step Guides
Introduction
Chapter 1. What is Humanitarian Intelligence?
Chapter 2. Humanitarian Intelligence in the Project Cycle Management
Chapter 3. Information Collection, Reliability and Probability
Chapter 4. Understanding Complex Contexts
Chapter 5. Humanitarian Analysis and Intervention Design Framework (H-AID): Comprehensive
Chapter 6. Understanding Actors and their Impact
Chapter 7. Social Network Analysis and Interpretation (SNA)
Chapter 8. Humanitarian Analysis and Intervention Design Framework (H-AID): Trend Factors Analysis
Chapter 9. Operational Planning and Forecasting
Conclusion: Recapitulating the Humanitarian Intelligence Cycle
Appendices
1. Sample LogFrame for a Rice Production Project
2. Context Dimensions Measurements and Indicators
3. Context Dimensions and Human Rights Correspondence
4. H-AID Trend Calculation
5. Agency Needs Form for Office Opening
6. Planning Check-List for Office Closure
Bibliography
About the author
By Andrej Zwitter
Summary
This book is the first to provide an overview and a practical guide to the tools and methods of data gathering and assessment, standards of measurement in humanitarian action, interpretation strategies, and operational planning tools. Short hypothetical cases and practical examples illustrate and explain the tools detailed in each chapter.
