1.3 Target audience

While the assistance of certain professionals such as a demographer, anthropologist, or expert in quantitative methods is recommended, it is assumed that such specialist guidance is unlikely to be available. The following advice is therefore aimed at the generalist emergency manager. The target audience is primarily field-based personnel of assistance programmes (for the purposes of this Review, this includes staff of non-governmental organisations (NGO’s), other international agencies including the UN, Red Cross Movement, government or donor agencies, and affected communities). It is also intended for use at central decision-making levels. Whatever the situation, decisions made centrally should be based primarily on input from field staff.