Child-Centered Multi-Risk Assessments: A Field Guide and Toolkit

The purpose of a multi-risk assessment is to enable Plan International staff, civil society partners, children and communities to comprehensively understand the multiple risks in a child’s environment, including pre-existing risks and new risks that emerge during and after crisis situations, such as natural hazards, conflict and violence, and their impact on children’s rights.

The tools in this guide can be adapted and used in  different ways:

• As a set of tools designed for undertaking a comprehensive multi-risk assessment or baseline measure ment to inform programming, for example: full spectrum programmes or community resilience programmes;
• As stand-alone tools (selecting one or more tools) to strengthen certain aspects of than existing thematic or multi-sectoral programme;
• As a dialogue tool that promotes community-led assessment of risk, vulnerabilities, impacts and capacities, and which can form the basis of child- or community-led action planning.

This guide and toolkit is designed to provide step-by-step guidance for field teams on how to plan and conduct a child-centred multi-risk assessment in the various contexts in which Plan International works. It is recommended that the assessment team be formed of staff with technical capacity in Child Protection and DRR and may include other sector programme staff.