Assistance Summary Window

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

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

New fields in versions 6.0
Category	Field	Data Type