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This training resource highlights the significance of performing a needs assessment within Enactus projects. It addresses how to identify gaps between current realities and desired outcomes for individuals, groups, and communities. Key objectives include determining priorities for action, justifying and demonstrating the success of interventions, engaging key stakeholders, locating resources, and developing project implementation strategies. Ultimately, it aims to clarify economic, social, and environmental factors influencing community needs, enhancing the standard of living and quality of life based on Enactus criteria.
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ENACTUS TRAINING 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