Accountability and Impact Measurement
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
- CARE: Staff member participated in the NSD; ECB framework used as the basis for country-level accountability frameworks after Cyclone Sidr


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.



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


Kenya: ACCOUNTABILITY





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.







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.




October-November 2010: The ECB Niger consortium completed an evaluation of the West Africa (Sahel region) food crisis.



CRS: Guatemala Collaboration Platform
Oxfam: DRR, interest in Metrics, Guatemala Collaboration Platform.
Mercy Corps: DRR, Guatemala Collaboration Platform
Save the Children: DRR


- CARE: Standing Team member deployed to set up accountability system
- World Vision: Participated in meetings on Good Enough Guide; Community Emergency Response and Disaster Mitigation Project


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.



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.



Indonesia: ACCOUNTABILITY
- World Vision: leads an inter-agency accountability training using the Good Enough Guide materials.
- Joint Evaluation of the West Sumatra emergency programs.
- Joint Evaluation Report on the ECB Indonesia Consortium response to the West Java and West Sumatra earthquakes (released April 2010)
- West Sumatra Earthquakes -Joint Needs Assessment is completed within 72 hours.
- Joint Needs Assessment real time database launched (trial)
- Mercy Corps: Joint Needs Assessment, Metrics Project, Good Enough Guide Training implemented
- CRS: Joint Needs Assessment, Staff Metrics Project implemented


Bangladesh: CONSORTIUM ENGAGEMENT PLAN



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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The Good Enough Guide
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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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Inter-Agency Standing Team
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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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Working with Quality and Accountability Initiatives
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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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