Ranking in planning of emergency programme in Angola.

Publication year: 
1993

As part of the UNICEF relief programme to Angola, a technical team carried out a ranking exercise upon which this paper reports. It took place between December 1991 and June 1992. Ranking is defined here as a process of priority ordering, in this case administrative areas in relation to the need for assistance. It used the knowledge that informants possessed from the country, at a national level, as well as from the provinces. No quantitative data were used. The ranking technique was expected to provide a rational framework to deal with time and resource constraints. The paper looks at the ranking process at a central and provincial level, as well as looking at the limitations and potential of the approach. It concludes that ranking was useful with regards to outlining the humanitarian issues in Angola; however, its efficiency depends very much on the choice of information source.

Interest groups: 
Multilateral and international organizations; governments and donor agencies; NGOs; policy makers and planners; and economists.
Source publication information
Journal Title: 
RRA Notes
Volume: 
17
Pages: 
29-33
Publisher
IIED, 3 Endsleigh Street, London. WC1H 0DD.

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