GREAT

MORNING
CLASS!!
COMMUNITY
WATER
CLOTHES
FOODS
ASSESSMENT
WATER CLOTHES
community
needs
FOODS
TEST EXAM
assessment
Before community profiling………
While preparing for Community
Profiling……………
After Community Profiling……………
After Community Profiling……………
• You want to do
something.
• Then someone comes
along and says, "Wait a
minute. Have you done
a needs assessment
survey?
 General Definition:
•A needs assessment is a
systematic process for
determining and addressing
needs, or "gaps" between current
conditions and desired conditions
or "wants".
COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT?
•It is the process of
identifying, analyzing, and
prioritizing needs of a
priority population.
COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT?
•Involves collecting data
from community members
to understand issues and
concern.
 Issues & Concerns:
• What do you want to learn about your
community with regards to emergency
preparedness and response program?
• What do you want to learn about your
community with regards to issues
about curfew?
 Issues & Concerns:
• What do you want to learn about your
community related to traffic safety?
• What do you want to learn about your
community related to lacking of
community establishment?
 Steps in Conducting Needs
Assessments
• Step 1: Analyzing the problem
• Step 2: Define your objectives
(targets/ community)
• Step 3: Formulate needs
assessment questions
Step 1: Analyzing the problem
5 key questions:
1. What is the problem?
•Why does it exist?
2. Who or What is causing it?
•For whom is it a problem?
Step 1: Analyzing the problem
3. When did it first occur or
become significant?
How important this problem into
the community?
Step 1: Analyzing the problem
4. What is currently done to
resolve identified needs?
What seems to be effective?
Are there adequate resources
available?
Step 1: Analyzing the problem
5. Can the problem be
solved in a reasonable
amount of time?
 Step 2a: Define your
objectives
•What do you want to
do/ understand about
your community?
 Step 3: Formulate needs
assessment questions
•What questions do you need
answered to help you
develop the best program for
your community population?
 Step 3: Formulate needs
assessment questions
Example:
• How frequently does the problem occur?
• How many people are affected?
• How important is the problem perceived to be
by the target groups ?
• How likely is it that we can solve/significantly
improve the problem?
 Needs
assessment
Survey
 Needs assessment survey?
•They have a pre-set list of
questions to be answered.
•They have a pre-determined
sample of the number and types
of people to answer these
questions chosen in advance.
Types of survey questions
• Multiple choice questions.
• Rating scale questions.
• Likert scale questions.
• Open-ended questions.
• Demographic questions.
 Needs assessment survey?
• They are done by personal interview,
phone, or by written response (e.g., a
mail-in survey)
• The results of the survey are
tabulated, summarized, distributed,
discussed, and (last, but not least)
used.
WHY SHOULD YOU DO A NEEDS ASSESSMENT
SURVEY?
1. To learn more about what your group
or community needs are.
2. It can give you detailed information
from a larger and more representative
group of people than you could get
from observation alone.
WHY SHOULD YOU DO A NEEDS ASSESSMENT
SURVEY?
3. To get a more honest and
objective description of
needs than people might
tell you publicly.
 WHY SHOULD YOU DO A NEEDS
ASSESSMENT SURVEY?
4. To become aware of possible
needs that you never saw as
particularly important or that
you never even knew existed.
Submit your Part
III Questionnaire
•Journal Writing:
How does community
profiling & conducting needs
assessment will benefits the
entire community?