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I’m Maurya West Meiers. I work at the World Bank as a Senior Evaluation Officer and am coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results (free World Bank book). Needs assessments and planning go hand-in-hand. Recently I’ve been interested in needs assessments applied at the municipal/city level. Many cities …

NA TIG Week: Needs Assessments in City Planning: Examples from Four Cities – Saint Paul, Portland, Oklahoma City and Edmonton by Maurya West Meiers Read More »

I’m Jim Altschuld, an AEA charter member who’s written about needs assessments (NAs) for nearly 4 decades and Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University. So why aren’t journal articles about NAs plentiful? Possible answers: Journal reviewers don’t like NAs, are biased, and reject most articles. NAs are for internal organization and agency purposes, not for …

NA TIG Week: Why Journal Articles about Needs Assessment (NA) Aren’t Plentiful? Excerpts from a 2018 AEA Ignite Session by Jim Altschuld Read More »

Welcome to the Needs Assessment TIG’s week on AEA365! I’m Lisle Hites, Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG, Associate Professor in Health Care Organization and Policy and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. On behalf of all of us here at the Needs Assessment TIG, I hope you enjoy this week’s blog entries and look …

NA TIG Week: Community Based Participatory… Needs Assessment: Are you trying to tell me what I need??? by Lisle Hites Read More »

I’m Maurya West Meiers. I work at the World Bank as a Senior Evaluation Officer and am coauthor of A Guide to Assessing Needs: Essential Tools for Collecting Information, Making Decisions, and Achieving Development Results (available for free here). My needs assessment and evaluation work often centers around areas of learning, capacity building, organizational development, management, performance, change …

NA TIG Week: Models, Frameworks and Approaches for Needs Assessments of Learning, Organizational, Performance, and Related Human Activities by Maurya West Meiers Read More »

Hello! We’re Beth Mulligan and Kate Darwent from Corona Insights, a firm that provides research, evaluation, and strategic consulting services for government and nonprofit organizations.  We are often contacted by clients who have both very limited resources and a very strong desire to understand and address the needs in their community (whether “their community” is …

NA TIG Week: Creative Ways to Get Useful and Actionable Data for a Small Budget Needs Assessment by Beth Mulligan and Kate Darwent Read More »

Hi, I’m Jim Altschuld, an emeritus faculty member at the Ohio State University in the school of educational policy and leadership. Today I’m sharing some tips on asset-based thinking when doing needs assessments. First, for some premises to note: Needs, discrepancies between current and desirable conditions, are problems, issues, or difficulties to be resolved. Assets …

NA TIG Week: Jim Altschuld on Tips for Asset-based Thinking when Doing Needs Assessments Read More »