Assistance Summary Window

The assistance to both individuals (direct and indirect victims) and communities may be recorded with this new object in version 6.0. 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 victimization cause. The assistance can be provided to:

• an individual;
• a family / extended family;
• a group of victims;
• 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

The Assistance item does have a status and each row in the subobject has a status.