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Why conduct a needs assessment?Why conduct a needs assessment?

Developed by D Caspersz & D Bejr, 2013

We conduct a needs assessment to..

• Identify the gap when working with individuals, groups and the community.

• The gap focuses on the difference between ‘what is’ and ‘what it should be’?

• This exercise has been adapted from the SIFE Loyola University SIFE USA Training, 2010

By conducting a needs assessment we…

• Identify priorities for our action.• Can justify our intervention.• Can demonstrate the success of our intervention.• Are able to establish appropriate ways to develop a

multi-level project.• Identify key stakeholders.• Locate resources we can use.• Develop appropriate ways sequence our project

implementation.

We conduct a needs assessment in enactus to…

• Identify the economic, social and environmental influences that create need.

• Clarify how we can improve our target individual, group or community’s standard of living and quality of life.

• These needs are based on the enactus criteria