Consultations with Communities

The indicator shows the extent to which an organization consulted the target group members about their needs, capacities and challenges before it decided on which activities will be implemented and how. It focuses on the “participation and empowerment” aspect of protection mainstreaming.

Determine the indicator's value by using the following methodology:

1) Define what can count as “were consulted about their needs”. This can include, for example, participants of a qualitative needs assessment and respondents of a quantitative survey that assessed people’s needs and the preferred aid modalities. It should include only those activities whose outputs were used for designing a new intervention.

2) Conduct key informant interviews (e.g. with MEAL staff or a programme manager) and review relevant documents (e.g. reports, attendance sheets) to count the number of people that were consulted about their needs.

3) The indicator’s value equals to the total number of people who were consulted in line with the criteria defined in point 1).

Disaggregate the data by gender, age group, location and disability.

1) In addition to reporting on the indicator’s value, report also on:

   - the number of communities where the consultations took place

   - how exactly the results of the consultations influenced the project’s design