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Global Needs Assessment

Global Needs Assessment

A blueprint for planning and action that gives donors an accurate picture of what is needed.

Global Needs Assessment Pilot Report

Global Needs Assessment Pilot ReportA report on the pilot Global Needs Assessment - meeting the needs of refugees and others of concern to UNHCR globally.

Key findings of the GNA pilot survey, 2008

  • 30 percent of needs are not being met
  • A third of unmet needs are for basic needs and essential services

Measures are needed to improve:

  • Food security and nutrition
  • Health
  • Access to clean water - construction or rehabilitation of wells
  • Sanitation - construction or rehabilitation of latrines
  • Distribution of non-food items
  • Access to education - subsidies to students, school supplies, extra schools or classrooms, more teachers

To ensure better protection we will need:

  • Training and technical support to governments
  • Improved and ensured access to asylum procedures
  • Enhanced reception facilities and procedures
  • Documentation
  • Border monitoring
  • Strengthened community security measures
  • To support justice mechanisms

To improve prevention and response to sexual abuse and violence we will need to:

  • Provide firewood or fuel alternative
  • Strengthen child protection programmes
  • Enhance reporting and follow-up
  • Establish safe houses
  • Expand opportunities for women's self-reliance

Strengthening Protection Capacity

Tools and strategies to strengthen the capacity of states to receive and protect refugees. This project is now active across five continents.