Community Needs Assessment

Rapid assessment of community priorities — service adequacy ratings across sectors, access barriers and the community’s own ranking of needs.

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Community Needs Assessment

Rapid assessment of community priorities — service adequacy ratings across sectors, access barriers and the community’s own ranking of needs.

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About this template

Community Needs Assessment is a curated field-research template designed with East African NGOs, research organisations and SMEs in mind. Use it to let communities rank their own priorities before you design the programme.

It ships with 5 sections and 14 field-tested questions — every field, the accent colour and the cover image are fully editable in the builder, and it works offline on the mobile app for enumerators in the field.

Good for

New programme design assessments
Rapid needs assessment after shocks
Annual community priority reviews

Useful for research like

Multi-sector needs assessments
Participatory prioritisation
Service-gap analysis

What’s inside

Visit details — 4 questions
Respondent profile — 4 questions
Service adequacy — 1 question
Priority needs — 3 questions
Community voice — 2 questions

Adapt the option lists (currencies, sites, crops, programmes) to your own context before publishing.

Every question is fully editable — use it as a starting point and tailor it to your needs.