These tools support the first step in the Data to Action learning journey: context analysis to provide health and humanitarian responders with an in-depth understanding of the socio-cultural, political, economic, and geographic factors that give rise to crises and will either hamper or enable their response. They focus on answering ‘why and how’ questions to understand systemic or complex factors shaping the current situation – and aim to inform the design and planning of programmes, and provide a baseline for their subsequent monitoring and evaluation.
UNICEF, IDS, USAID
This interview guide, comprised of ten modules, is intended to provide guidance on rapid context analysis for epidemic response. The questions cover geographic characteristics, infrastructure, population, language, communication preferences, social organisation, civil society organisations, etc. They can be used to guide long-form interviews or focus groups to produce important insights into contextual factors that are important for RCCE.
USAID, Breakthrough Action
This 'Rumor Log' was developed to capture data about the circulation of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Versions of the log have been field tested in Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Malawi and Mozambique. More information about the 'Rumor Log' can be obtained from this technical brief.
IDS, LSHTM, UNICEF, Anthrologica, USAID
This interview guide highlights key considerations for rapidly appraising burial practices and beliefs around death during an epidemic and is intended to enable understanding of local knowledge and practice which can help inform related RCCE programming.
Unknown source
This interview guide is intended to enable health workers and planning teams to understand the communities they serve. Questions cover: the socio-cultural context; politics, leaders, and organizations; engagement and response actions; health and behaviors; and gender relations and roles.
CARE
This interview guide is intended to inform rapid gender analysis to understand the impact of any emergency from the perspective of an affected individual woman, man, boy or girl by using story telling alongside semi-structured interview questions.
CARE
This interview guide is intended to inform rapid analysis of the beliefs, practices and attitudes of a group of people towards any specific topic of interest or emergency, by gathering insights into the roles and responsibilities of women, men, boys and girls, their control and access to resources, their vulnerabilities and needs, coping mechanisms and security concerns.
CARE
This guide is intended to support community-led analysis of the mobility, and access to community resources, of individuals by sex and age. The maps and mobility circles function as visual aids that can be created on paper with colored pens or in the dirt/sand using natural materials such as sticks and pebbles.
IICCRD, CPC Learning Network, UNICEF, IFRC
This data collection guidance was developed to support meaningful child participation in COVID-19 programming. It sets out a series of different tools to support children's engagement across the humanitarian program lifecycle, including visual community mapping, vision collages, and object stories. For the purposes of this toolkit, the most useful may be the interview guides in chapters 4 and 5.