3. Key informant interview questions DEC/HC Nepal earthquake appeal response review, August 2015 • • • •
For DEC/HC personnel, government officials and others Each question is an invitation for the interviewee to elaborate with examples Choose which questions to ask: not all questions will be relevant to all interviewees Disaggregate questions by gender where applicable
Gaps, priority areas and unmet needs 1. What are the priority issues right now? How have these changed over time? 2. What are the key unmet needs and challenges right now? What can be done to address these? 3. Please give examples of innovations and/or exemplary programming (such as use of cash or shelter) that were tried. What worked, what didn’t and what challenges did you encounter in the process? 4. What impact did preparedness and mitigation planning before the earthquake have on the disaster? 5. What capacities have been strengthened/ built during the initial response? What capacity gaps remain? Relevance and reach (including DAC criteria) 6. How efficient has the response been (eg co ordination, clusters, use of resources)? Examples? 7. How effective has the response been? Examples? 8. How relevant have actions been? Examples? (Probe on how shifting needs were taken into account) 9. Sustainability: how are relief interventions linking to rehabilitation and development? Examples? 10. How were the most vulnerable identified (eg assessment approaches) and how were/ are they reached? Examples? 11. Which shelter approaches work best? Which have not? Why? 12. How is gender based violence (GBV) and vulnerability addressed? Examples? Coordination 13. How well have DEC/HC members’ actions supported the government’s response? Examples? What are the challenges? 14. How well have DEC/HC members worked with local actors, eg civil society, private sector, army? Examples? What are the challenges? 15. How well have DEC/HC members worked with other INGOs and UN bodies? 16. How has the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) been used? Examples? Communication with disaster affected communities 17. To what extent and how are the views of crisis-affected people sought and used to guide programme design and implementation? Examples? 18. What special efforts have been made to consult with women and the most marginalised (eg .caste differences)? Examples? 19. What communication approaches were used? Which have been the best? Anything we have missed you would like to tell us about?
DEC/HC Nepal earthquake appeal response review Annexes