The assistance to both individuals and communities may be recorded with this in version 6.0 new object. Assistance is the action that is done for assisting victims. Monitoring of assistance projects may be done with the existing Task module.
Assistance is closely linked to the cause of why assistance is needed and what assistance is needed. The assistance that is given to victims is of different types:
- to an individual;
- to a family / extended family;
- to a group of victims;
- to a community.
The cause and needs assessment of individuals is entered in the Victim. In the future similar subobject for cause and needs assessment of community may be added to the Location item.
Assistance subobject
Assistance (actions) may be classified in the following categories:
- Emergency (health care and humanitarian aid)
- Stabilisation (health services, education, economic reintegration and physical accessibility)
- Transition (social inclusion, advocacy, data collection and physical accessibility)
- Protection (risk analysis)
- Legal support (law/policy)
- Institutional reinforcement (institution staff support, education/awareness and access to services)
Assistance fields
| New fields in versions 6.0 | ||
| Category | Field | Data Type |
| Uncategorised | Assistance ID | String |
| Uncategorised | Assistance Name | String |
| Uncategorised | Status | Single Select |
| Uncategorised | Status changed reason | Single Select |
| Uncategorised | Status changed comment | Text |
| Uncategorised | Needs assessment done by | Organisation |
| Uncategorised | Assistance decided by | Organisation |
| Uncategorised | Priority | Single Select |
| Uncategorised | Assistance given at | Place |
| Uncategorised | Assistance given by | Organisation |
| Uncategorised | Assistance paid by | Organisation |
| Uncategorised | Cost/Grant | BigDecimal |
| Uncategorised | Currency | Single Select |
| Uncategorised | Number of Direct Beneficiaries | Integer |
| Uncategorised | Number of Indirect Beneficiaries | Integer |
| Uncategorised | Comment | Text |
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The Assistance item does have a status and each row in the subobject has a status. |