What a resource! The Good Enough Guide is small enough to tuck away in a carry-on bag, but full of important reminders on how to best respond in emergency situations. When not responding to an emergency, the guide serves as a great reference for determining the effectiveness of program activities by encouraging us to ask the right questions."
Kristi Tabaj
Technical Advisor
Mercy Corps Afghanistan
The Good Enough Guide
What is it?
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Why is it useful?
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A straightforward, pocket-sized guide setting out tried and tested methods for putting impact measurement and accountability into practice throughout the life of a project.
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The 'good enough' approach emphasises simple and practical solutions and encourages the user to choose tools that are safe, quick, and easy to implement.
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The Good Enough Guide is a pocket guide that helps emergency responders ask: What difference are we making, and how do we know? It offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations and contains a variety of tools on needs assessment and profiling. It is aimed at humanitarian practitioners, project officers and managers with some experience in the field, and draws on the work of field staff, NGOs, and inter-agency initiatives, including Sphere, ALNAP, HAP International, and People In Aid.
Since its launch in April 2007, over 8,000 copies have been purchased and are in use by the humanitarian community to improve the practice of accountability to disaster-affected communities. Several humanitarian agencies have incorporated a training on the Guide.
Over 1,500 copies have been downloaded in over 100 countries. The Good Enough Guide is also available in Spanish, French, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, and Bahasa Indonesian and will be available in other languages shortly, including Bengali.
'The Guide is good enough for me, as it demystifies the concept of impact and puts people at the heart of the matter. It is to be hoped that the book not only becomes widely available for fieldworkers in NGOs, UN agencies, and donor offices but that it is incorporated into training materials and courses and made available in local languages. This could be the start of a ‘good enough movement’ which on the one hand might make lasting improvements to the ways in which agencies are implementing projects and on the other hand might provide a convincing argument to persuade donors to reduce their demands for costly, time-consuming, hard-data impact measurement.'
Susanne E. Frueh, Former Chief of Evaluation of OCHA, Former Chair of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition Reviewed for Development in Practice, Volume 18, Number 2, April 2008
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