Purpose:
This guidance note should be read as a complementary note to the existing VCA guides, also keeping in mind that each NS has developed over time its own guidance documents to implement VCAs at community level. This note was prepared in support of the Gender and Diversity for Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments – Field School held in Thailand in May 2017.
Usage: Guidance for implementation
Audience: National Society staff and volunteers
See also the Vietnamese version.
Purpose:
This report gives a summary of the Gender and Diversity approaches to Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCA) which was delivered to: National Societies in Asia-Pacific, Partner National Societies working in the region and IFRC staff. The field school took place in Ayutthaya and Sing Buri Province, Thailand between 21-26 May 2017. The training was kindly co-hosted by the Thai Red Cross Society. Read more on the training.
Overview:
This report includes the following elements:
Usage: Guidance for implementation and training
Audience: National Society staff
Gender-sensitive vulnerable and capacity assessment checklist
Purpose:
The lessons learned document describes the lessons learned, recommendation and good practice from National Societies.
Vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) has become widely used by many National Societies over the past ten years. Between 2003 and 2005, the VCA process was evaluated and revised by the International Federation’s secretariat. In 2005, a practitioners’ forum was organized to review and collect good practice and lessons learned.
Overview:
Community-based work has a very powerful effect on the National Societies involved. It is clear that VCA:
On the other hand, it was noted that:
Usage: Guideline for implementation
Audience: National Society staff and volunteers
For the other series of VCA guides:
Purpose:
The training guide offers instructions for training Red Cross Red Crescent staff and volunteers in implementing a VCA, through classroom training and more directly, through ‘learning-by-doing’.
The purpose of this training guide is to provide VCA facilitators with the necessary tools to train those who will be implementing the actual VCA. It is designed to enable volunteers with little or no experience of community-based participatory information gathering to complete a successful VCA, under supervision.
These are to be used along with the VCA toolbox, which sets out and explains the various research tools.
Overview:
The guide includes instructions and suggestions to help volunteers understand:
The guide begins with a discussion of basic training themes. This is followed by two models of actual training courses: (1) classroom training and, (2) ‘learning-by-doing’. In both cases, explanations for each activity and specific facilitation techniques are presented. Cross-references are made to the other publications in the VCA series, to illustrate how various tools fit into the overall VCA process.
Usage: Guideline for implementation
Audience: National Society staff and volunteers
For the other series of VCA guides:
Purpose:
The document is a guidance material that recommends a common regional approach to VCA. The idea was to adapt global International Federation VCA tools for the South-East Asian context to support National Society assessment processes through the development of regional guidelines, following the experiences of Red Cross Red Crescent and external partners, it aims to guide National Societies in conducting VCA and adapt the VCA process to their own countries.
One of the challenges faced while formulating and implementing the project or program is that VCA results are not well integrated and adopted as a sustainable developmental plan for communities. In addition, a lack of community participation hampers the best use of community knowledge and materials in implementing VCA. Some key lessons learnt from the implementation of VCA in the last several years are defined here for consideration before, during and after rolling out VCA in our region.
Overview:
The lessons learnt from the practices from the National Societies in Southeast Asia:
A. Integration and mainstreaming
B. Advocacy
C. Project/programme design
D. Capacity building
Usage: Guidelines for implementation
Audience: National Society staff and volunteers
For the other series of VCA guides:
See also this document in: Burmese version size 4 MB, Lao language size 1 MB, Khmer size 4 MB
Purpose
This video looks at the importance of Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA). It presents a case study of VCA in the Mai Hoa commune in Vietnam. Mai Hoa suffers from flooding caused by climate change. The commune experienced floods in 2007 and 2013. The video looks at the experiences of people during these floods.
Overview
Usage: Training, Learning from experience
Limitation: In Vietnamese language with English subtitles
Audiences: Technical staff, Gender and diversity practitioners, Volunteers
Reference: Audio visual: Vietnam Red Cross (2015). Gender and Diversity Sensitive Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA).
