State Level Findings: Arkansas—Building State and VOAD Capacities to Protect Children in Emergencies

This appendix to the Evaluation Report: Building State and VOAD Capacities to Protect Children in Emergencies (https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-1y50-6519) provides additional detail regarding research conducted in Arkansas by the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. This project was designed to evaluate Save the Children’s Building State Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOAD) Capacities to Protect Children in Emergencies Project. This project assessed how state-level VOADs can build capacity to address children’s needs before, during, and after disaster.
While the comprehensive report illustrates higher-level findings resulting from the evaluation as a whole, this state-level appendix provides descriptive and analytical findings for three of the data collection activities: 1) pre-facilitated survey; 2) participatory asset mapping; and 3) social network analysis survey. We present these findings in the order the data collection activities took place during the project period. At the beginning of each of the appendix sections, we provide a brief overview of the methods used, sample size, and data gathered before the presentation of findings. The appendix includes detailed summaries of the results, tables, charts, and other graphics to augment the primary report.