ECBinter-active Conference Series
November 2011 – February 2012 sees the first ever series of ECBinter-active regional events, in which for the first time, we share our program and practical learning on humanitarian capacity building with the wider humanitarian sector.
Please join us at our final ECBinter-active learning conference: Dhaka, Bangladesh 28-29 February 2012. Please register your interest in attending.
You can also read conference summaries from our past events in Indonesia, Bolivia, Niger and Uganda.
Through the ECB Project Accountability and Impact Measurement theme, the six agencies are working to ensure that their commitments to hold themselves accountable to communities affected by emergencies translate into changed practice in the field. This focus is inspired by the “good enough” approach: doing what is safe, essential, quick and simple in complex emergency situations, to ensure that staff take some initial, practical steps towards accountability to disaster-affected people.
Bangladesh: ACCOUNTABILITY
WV: Training with Good Enough Guide
The Good Enough Guide was used, by the UN WASH Cluster Technical Working Group, as a resource to draft the Pond Cleaning Protection Guidelines after Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar.
CARE and Save the Children request a Joint Evaluation of their humanitarian response to the January earthquake (September 2010).
Kenya: STAFF CAPACITY
Kenya: ACCOUNTABILITY
The Horn of Africa consortium evaluated their cash for food programs in Kenya.
Mercy Corps: Training on the Good Enough Guide
World Vision: Trained WV staff on Good Enough Guide
The Indonesia consortium held an accountability workshop at ECHO headquarters in Brussels, as part of the Gates Foundation grant to support inter-agency activities in the West Sumatra earthquake.
World Vision: Trained World Vision staff on Good Enough Guide.
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.
World Vision: Accountability framework research
World Vision: Interagency training on Good Enough Guide
World Vision: Trained World Vision staff on Good Enough Guide
February 2011: 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.
June 2011: ECB Indonesia consortium members visited the ECB Bolivia consortium for a learning exchange.
CRS: Accountability work including Good Enough Guide
World Vision: Accountability framework research
October 2010: Joint Accountability training held using the 'Good Enough Guide' communications materials in La Paz and Trinidad.
April 2011:The newly expanded Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies in Bolivia conducted a Joint Needs Assessment in the north of Bolivia following floods in the region.
Oxfam: The Impact Measurement Good Enough Guide project launched in partnership with the University of East Anglia (UEA).
October-November 2010: The ECB Niger consortium completed an evaluation of the West Africa (Sahel region) food crisis.
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).
CRS: Guatemala Collaboration Platform
Oxfam: DRR, interest in Metrics, Guatemala Collaboration Platform.
Mercy Corps: DRR, Guatemala Collaboration Platform
Save the Children: DRR
The Inter-agency Working Group or IWG, which includes the emergency directors from all of the ECB agencies, held their twice-yearly meeting this week (April 4-9, 2011) in Seattle.
CRS: Accountability and Impact Measurement – maintained contact post-standing team deployment.
World Vision: Introduction on Good Enough Guide to World Vision and government staff
Save the Children host an inter-agency acountability in emergencies training in Islamabad.
CARE: CARE India translated the Good Enough Guide into Hindi
Trócaire train their staffs and partners using the 'Good Enough Guide' Accountability materials.
CARE translated the 'Good Enough Guide' accountability materials into Creole.
Save the Children train staff and partners using the 'Good Enough Guide' accountability materials (in French).
Indonesia: ACCOUNTABILITY
Bangladesh: CONSORTIUM ENGAGEMENT PLAN
ECB sharing self-assessment tools and methods at People in Aid HR conference in Madrid May 2011.
ECB Project staff presented at the United Nations, Geneva to a group of UN staff during the IASC (Inter-Agency Standing Committee) weekly meeting in January 2011. Participants learnt about the ECB Simulations and Accountability activities.
The NEW Accountability - Good Enough Guide website will enable you to learn more about Accountability and download some valuable communication tools including posters, films and leaflets that will support communities, field-based staff, trainers and country managers.
Visit ecbproject.org/goodenoughguide
In ECB Phase II, we continue to field test, develop and refine tools and knowledge products, particularly through the five ECB consortia in Bolivia, Bangladesh, the Horn of Africa, Indonesia and Niger. The Joint Needs Assessment database is currently under review in Indonesia. Joint concept notes and proposals, including Impact Measurement focused initiatives, are currently under development by our AIM Advisory Group.
"Accountability - Key Elements / Core Understanding" a set accountability principles and indicators to establish a baseline for measuring joint accountability activities implemented by the six ECB agencies (CARE, CRS, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision),
A case study on the Accountability & Impact Measurement Advisory group examines how this particular ECB AIM Advisory group works as a community of practice by comparing to the community of practice framework outlined by leading theorist Etienne Wenger.
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Download this free pocket guide offering basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations. Available in multiple languages including Francais, Español, Hindi. |
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A group of professionals trained to train others in accountability and impact measurement practice. Also available for deployments. |
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| Joint Field Processes |
Interagency activities such as joint needs assessments, joint evaluations and after action reviews at field office level. |
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A bilateral effort to work with other existing quality and accountability initiatives. |
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| Coordinated Needs Assessment - |
Working together with the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS), the ECB Project is developing a number of pilot initiatives to train and implement coordinated needs assessments. All of our five consortia are working with ACAPs staff. |
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