This is a Rapid Village Assessment form that was used in Kosovo. Its purpose is to assess damage.

The purpose of this chapter is to provide Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) staff and others who participate on OFDA Assessment Teams with a guide to conducting an initial assessment for sudden or slow onset disasters

Developed jointly by the World Bank with UNDP and UNICEF the Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire (CWIQ) is designed to monitor social indicators in Africa on an annual basis. The CWIQ is developed to show who is, and who is not, benefiting from actions designed to improve social and economic conditions. The CWIQ collects (i) indicators of household well-being; and, (ii) indicators of access, usage and satisfaction with community and other basic services. The CWIQ will: • provide key social indicators for different population subgroups within and across countries. • be an instrument for monitoring changes in key social indicators over time. • provide countries with a simple tool that produces rapid results.

Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys have become an important tool in measuring and understanding poverty in developing countries. The Development Economics Research Group (DECRG) of the World Bank, formerly the Policy Research Department, maintains this website to make available to researchers around the world the data sets and methodological lessons from these surveys.

The purpose of this evaluation is to: -Collect information about the use of the tool kit that will enable future users to better plan and conduct the needs assessment. This information will be included in the final revision of the toolkit. -Determine the usefulness of the needs assessment for program planning and evaluation. -Collate data from several sites using the kit to produce a report that could be used to advocate for resources needed to address identified needs across several communities in Africa.

This survey attempts to identify a set of questions to capture the essence of social capital as related to development. This draft questionnaire is the result of a wide range of experiences with collecting and analyzing data on social capital including (a)the Tanzania Social Capital Survey that collected data on associational memberships and trust, and related this to access to services and agricultural technology; (b) the Local Level Institutions Study that collected comparable data structural social capital in Bolivia, Burkina Faso and Indonesia; (c) the Social Capital Initiative that sponsored 12 studies on the role of social capital in sectoral projects and on the process of creation and destruction of social capital; and finally (d) the Social Capital Survey in Ghana and Uganda that collected data on groups and networks, subjetive well-being, political engagement, sociability, community activities, violence and crime, and communications. The two principles which guided the design of this survey were (a) a conceptual approach in selecting and retaining questions and (b) the integration of the social capital questionnaire into the Living Standards Measurement Surveys system, a standard household survey used by the World Bank and others.

Chapter 4 of a larger book, This chapter provides an overview of the key epidemiological principles and the epidemiological tools needed in managing emergency public health programs. The goal is to reduce morbidity and mortality among displaced populations.