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SEADS HANDBOOK

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The SEADS Handbook is also available in French and Spanish, with Arabic and Portuguese coming soon!

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WHO IS SEADS FOR?

Anyone who is involved in crop-related crisis response can use SEADS, including:

People who provide preparedness, emergency, recovery, and development assistance in areas where crop production contributes to livelihoods.

Policy makers and decision makers in donor and government agencies, whose funding and
implementation decisions affect crisis response.

HOW TO USE THE HANDBOOK

The SEADS Handbook will help you decide whether a crop-related response is appropriate, necessary, and feasible in a specific crisis context. If a crop-related response meets these criteria, the Handbook will help you design, implement, and evaluate that response well. 

To get started with SEADS, follow these three steps:

Critical Concepts

Read Chapters 1–3. These chapters explain critical concepts that underpin the SEADS minimum standards and an effective response.

Practical Tools & Technical Response

Read the minimum standards chapters, starting at Chapter 4. The information and practical tools in Chapter 4 will direct you to technical response options (Chapters 5–7). Chapters 5–7 provide tools, such as decision trees, timing tables, and tables of advantages and disadvantages, to help you achieve the minimum standards.

Monitoring & Evaluation

Read Chapter 8 after you select technical response options. This chapter describes the minimum standards for impact-oriented monitoring and evaluation.

The SEADS Handbook is supplemented by:

CASE STUDIES    |    SEADS EVIDENCE DATABASE    |    LEGS-SEADS JOINT ASSESSMENT TOOL

WHEN TO USE SEADS

You should use SEADS whenever you suspect that crops may be important to the past, current, or future livelihoods of people affected by crisis. At the moment you realize crops may be, or may have been, important to livelihoods, pick up the SEADS Handbook and follow the steps described above.

You can also use SEADS if you find yourself in the midst of a crop-related response and want to know how to strengthen it or how to ensure that your response has an impact on people’s livelihoods.

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