The Assessment Capacities project (ACAPS), is dedicated to improving assessments of humanitarian needs in complex emergencies and crisis through the provision of context-specific information and analysis. ACAPS delivers:
- Independent analysis to support evidence-based decision making for humanitarian operations: a weekly Global Emergency Overview of all ongoing humanitarian crisis and Disaster Needs Analysis that assess specific disasters and their impact.
- Deployment of experts to support assessments in crisis.
- Capacity development of humanitarian actors to carry out better needs assessments.
- Methodological tools: innovative approaches to collect more reliable and timely data.
