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Staff Capacity Building

ECBinter-active Conference Series
November 2011 – February 2012 saw the first ever series of ECBinter-active regional events, in which for the first time, we shared our program and practical learning on humanitarian capacity building with the wider humanitarian sector. Read conference summaries from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Bolivia, Niger and Uganda.

The most valuable resources for humanitarian agencies in responding to and preparing for emergencies are their local and international staff. Through the ECB Project's Staff Capacity theme, IWG agencies are working to improve the speed and quality of emergency response through improved practice in the recruitment, retention, development and deployment of skilled and experienced staff and teams. ECB has partnered with several other organizations in the humanitarian sector to better understand the challenges and to develop and test innovative solutions.

Oxfam used simulation tools for Avian flu simulation.

Haiti: ACCOUNTABILITY

CARE and Save the Children request a Joint Evaluation of their humanitarian response to the January 2010 earthquake (September 2010).

Kenya: STAFF CAPACITY

The Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA) Leadership and Management Competency Frameworks are reviewed in Nairobi (July 2010).

Staff Retention Review workshop and training with People in Aid in Nairobi.

ECB Project support People in Aid Humanitarian HR conference in Nairobi, held June 8-11, 2011.

Pakistan: STAFF CAPACITY

Oxfam: First part of the pilot for National Staff Capacity Project
Mercy Corps: Staff attended the National Staff capacity project
CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development Program

CARE participated in Georgia Simulation and ran own pilot for CARE Kosovo

CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development Program

Mozambique

MercyCorps: development of ECB Simulations tool.
Oxfam: deployment of Simulations tool in training.

Sierra Leone

CRS participated in Simulations Project
MercyCorps staff attended simulations training

Sri Lanka: STAFF CAPACITY

World Vision participated in “Building Trust in Teams” pilot
CARE Country Office piloted "Building Trust in Teams" toolkits

Sudan: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

65 participants from CRS and Caritas partners took part in Emergency Preparedness Planning training.

Sudan: ACCOUNTABILITY

CARE Wellness Advisor piloted CARE Building Trust in Teams toolkits.

Thailand

CARE helped organize National Staff Development session in Thailand
MercyCorps staff attended the National Staff Capacity Project.
Oxfam took part in second part of the pilot for National Staff Capacity Project.

August 2010: Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA) developed two frameworks that summarize the core professional competencies and leadership behaviours needed for humanitarian aid workers.
July 2011: CBHA program review held in Oxford.

CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development program

Bolivia: CONSORTIUM / LEARNING

Bolivia is one of our key ECB consortia countries – more details
Objective 1 review and planning process with their Consortium Engagement Plan (CEP) Review and Revision workshop and Consortium Learning Review (CLR) held in La Paz (February 2011).
ECB Indonesia consortium members visited the ECB Bolivia consortium for a learning exchange (June 2011).
Representatives from Bolivia consortium travelled to Bangladesh to take part in a learning exchange visit (Sept 2011).

Bolivia: SIMULATIONS

Bolivia consortium held first inter-agency emergency simulation.

Horn of Africa: STAFF CAPACITY

A Rapid Capacity Assessment was completed, to support the start of the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies' (CBHA) capacity building program (October 2010).
CBHA event held in Horn of Africa in order to capture learning from the Humanitarian Staff Development Project and discuss new training programmes (November 2011).
Horn of Africa ENHAnce (Expanding National Humanitarian Ability)

Ethiopia: STAFF CAPACITY

Oxfam participated in Metrics project.
Mercy Corps participated in Metrics project, Simulations.
CRS participated in Metrics project, Simulations Project.
Save the Children participated in Metrics project.

Georgia

Oxfam involved in Simulation training and activity
CRS engaged with Simulations TOT and simulation exercises with Georgian staff
CARE staff members participated in the Simulations pilot

Guatemala: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

CRS: Guatemala Collaboration Platform
Oxfam: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), interest in Metrics, Guatemala Collaboration Platform.
MercyCorps: DRR, Guatemala Collaboration Platform
Save the Children: DRR
World Vision engaged in Community Emergency Response and Disaster Mitigation Project

Malawi: STAFF CAPACITY

CARE Country Office piloted Building Trust in Teams toolkits
Oxfam used Building Trust for Diverse Teams

United States: INTER-AGENCY WORKING GROUP

April 2011: The Inter-agency Working Group (IWG) which includes the emergency directors from all of the ECB agencies, held their twice-yearly meeting in Seattle.

Ethiopia: ACCOUNTABILITY

Trócaire trained their staff and partners using the 'Good Enough Guide' Accountability materials.

Haiti: GOOD ENOUGH GUIDE

CARE translated the 'Good Enough Guide' accountability materials into Creole.
Save the Children trained staff and partners using the 'Good Enough Guide' accountability materials (in French).

Sudan: STAFF CAPACITY

CARE participated in the Metrics Project, which has been shown to add to decision-making.
CRS participated in Metrics Project.
MercyCorps participated in Metrics Project.
Oxfam participated in Metrics Project.

Bangladesh: CONSORTIUM ENGAGEMENT

Bangladesh is one of our key ECB consortia countries – more details
Consortium Engagment Plan (CEP)/ Consortium Learning Review (CLR) held 4-5 May, 2011
Food for the Hungry representatives have made contact with ECB Indonesia and Bangladesh consortia and are discussing a potential engagement
ECB Bangladesh and ACAPS release their Secondary Data Review (SDR) following floods in Bangladesh (September 2011)

Niger: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

ECB Niger consortium held first inter-agency simulation (February 2011).
DRR Practitioner's Guide consultation workshops held in Niger (July 2011).
ACAPS, CALP, Infoasaid and the ECB Project produce a new Secondary Data Review for Niger (November 2011).

Bolivia: STAFF CAPACITY

2012 Bolivia ENHAnce (Expanding National Humanitarian Ability)
CBHA humanitarian competencies development program – for which ECB is an implementing partner - launched in Bolivia (November 2010).
Consortium members participated in CBHA National Staff Development Program workshops (September 2011).

ECBinter-active Bolivia

was dedicated to the

CBHA's Humanitarian Staff Development Program

in order to capture learning from the

Humanitarian Staff Development Project

Building Trust: A Concise Facilitation Handbook now available in Spanish (April 2011).

The ECB Project shared self-assessment tools and methods at People in Aid HR conference in Madrid (May 2011).

People in Aid worked in partnership with the ECB Horn of Africa Consortium to deliver a report in March 2010 entitled Addressing Staff Retention in the Horn of Africa

ECB, together with the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA), recently confirmed a new funding award from the UK Department for International Development (DFID). A new staff capacity building initiative will focus on the creation of a staff development programme and will be piloted and rolled-out in ECB consortia countries from the start of 2010.

The major outputs from ECB's Staff Capacity work in Phase I of the Project are listed below. Click on the links to learn more and access resources.

In ECB Phase II, we continue to test, develop and refine these tools and knowledge products, particularly in the five ECB consortia in Bolivia, Niger, the Horn of Africa, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Visit the ECB Phase II section of this site to learn more.

Building Trust in Diverse Teams	A practical toolkit and set of approaches teams can utilize to both measure and improve levels of trust in emergency teams.
National Staff Development Program	A sustainable, replicable program to increase the number of agency staff at the national level capable of leading and managing emergency programs.
Staff Capacity Metrics	A web-based tool which allows agency field offices to capture and analyze critical emergency staffing indicators in real-time.
Simulations Project	Emergencies simulated for learners to develop responses
Surge Capacity Research	People in Aid's research to identify triggers and drivers for agencies to scale up or down rapidly in any given location.
Staff Retention and Turnover	People in Aid's study interviewed employees of ECB agencies to identify factors in staff retention and turnover.
Exchange Visits and the Staff Capacity Framework	Exchange visits between peer professionals at headquarters and field offices led to the identification, documentation, and sharing of a series of common challenges and promising practices.

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