Humanitarian Disability Needs Estimation and Screening Tool

Project Details

Collecting data in the immediate humanitarian response following a sudden onset disaster, such as an earthquake, is uniquely challenging. There are also few tools available for identifying people with disability and the support they may need. This often results in disability data collection being left until later in a response. This delay in collecting data excludes people with disability from response interventions, increases risk of injury and death, and delays recovery.

The Humanitarian Disability Needs Estimation and Screening Tool (HD-NEST) project set out to develop a tool for identifying people with disability and support needs the critical early response phase. The HD-NEST questions were developed and tested in the Philippines and Indonesia. The questions developed under the project are designed to be integrated into rapid humanitarian needs assessments

Researchers

Dr Alex Robinson

Dr Manjula Marella

Collaborators

• ASB
• Life Haven

Funding

Humanitarian innovation fund - ELRHA

Research Outcomes

HD-NEST questions and user guides are currently available in English, Indonesian and Filipino languages (links in publications ).

Research Publications

Humanitarian Disability Needs Estimation and Screening Tool - A Practice Guide

• English version
• Indonesian version
• Filipino Version