The Good Enough Guide

List of tools

• Tool 1 How to introduce your agency: a need-to-know checklist
• Tool 2 How accountable are you? Checking public information
• Tool 3 How to involve people throughout the project
• Tool 4 How to profile the affected community and assess initial needs
• Tool 5 How to conduct an individual interview
• Tool 6 How to conduct a focus group
• Tool 7 How to decide whether to do a survey
• Tool 8 How to assess child-protection needs
• Tool 9 How to observe
• Tool 10 How to start using indicators
• Tool 11 How to hold a lessons-learned meeting
• Tool 12 How to set up a complaints and response mechanism
• Tool 13 How to give a verbal report
• Tool 14 How to say goodbye

Using the ‘good enough’ tools

Remember: using the ‘good enough’ approach means selecting tools which are essential, safe, quick, and easy to use in the situation in which you are working. The tools are not blueprints. They are suggested not prescribed. These are not the only tools. Use your own experience and judgement in deciding whether to use a particular tool, when to use it, and how to adapt it for the time and place you are working in. Questions that can help you test whether a tool is ‘good enough’ include:

• Can we use this tool without endangering field staff and the people affected by the emergency?
• Does it meet essential requirements in this contextat this time?
• Is it realistic?
• Do we have the resources – time, staff, volunteers, and money – to use it?
• Is it useful for those applying it?
• Is it as simple as necessary?
• Have we referred to widely accepted humanitarian values, standards, and guidelines?
• Will it be ‘good enough’ tomorrow? When will we review our use of this tool?

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