Accountability and Impact Measurement

Bangladesh: ACCOUNTABILITY

• March 2013 - Review of the Good Enough Guide to Assessments under way in ECB Bangladesh.
• March 2013 - Update on the progress of Accountability Improvement Plans (AIPs) in Bangladesh.
• February 2013 - newsletter article -Reflections on Joint Needs Assessment progress in Bangladesh.
• December 2012: The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) Investigations Workshop in Dhaka, hosted by the COAST Trust. The purpose of the course is to prepare mid-to-senior level staff to conduct fair, thorough and confidential investigations into complaints of staff misconduct.
• December 2012: ECB Bangladesh agency staff deployed in Indonesia for Accountabilty and Impact Measurement (AIM) review 
• September 12: Emergency Food Security & Livelihoods ‘48-hour Assessment Tool’ used in Bangladesh
• August 2012: ECB Agencies in Bangladesh Collaborate to Translate Sphere Handbook
• August 2012: Executive Director of HAP International, visited Bangladesh to launch the translation of the 2010 HAP standards into Bangla
• Save the Children hosted an inter-agency accountability in emergencies training and Cyclone Aila review in Dhaka
• March 2012: AIM workshop
• The 'Good Enough Guide' published in Bengali.
• CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development programme; ECB framework used as the basis for country-level accountability frameworks after Cyclone Sidr
• The Bangladesh consortium collaborated with the ACAPS project to commission a study into Joint Needs Assessment in Bangladesh in April 2011: the collaboration resulted in range of reports which can be found in the Resources Library.
• The ECB Project Bangladesh consortium held an accountability workshop in Dhaka on 20 March 2012, supported by the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO).
• April 2012, members from the ECB Project’s Accountability and Impact Measurement (AIM) Standing Team undertook deployments in Bolivia and Bangladesh and in September 2012 in Bangladesh.
• July 12: Coordinated Needs Assessments (or JNAs) Conducted in Bangladesh in Response to Flooding

World Vision ran training using '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.

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

• February 2013 - KIRA election preparedness gathers pace in Kenya.
• December 5-7, 2012 - Kenya Initial Rapid Assessment (KIRA) intiative holds pre-election simulation to test preparedness.
• Final two day ENHAnce workshop comprising simulation and learning event, 15-16 November 2012. ENHAnce participants come from several countries in the region: Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
• 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.

Kenya: ACCOUNTABILITY

• March 2013 - Review of the Good Enough Guide to Assessments to take place in April in ECB Horn of Africa.
• December 6-7, 2012. The CDAC Network is to hold a learning event in Nairobi, Kenya. The eventwill discuss how humanitarian organisations can communicate effectively with communities before, during and after a crisis, using new and traditional technologies.
• October 2012, ECB Accountability and Impact Measurement (AIM) Standing Team were deployed to Kenya to support UNOCHA, UNICEF and ACAPS who were working to build a more coherent and comprehensive approach to Rapid Needs Assessment in Kenya.
• Kenya Initial Rapid Assessment (KIRA) 6 day workshop between September 30 and October 5 2012 on Coordinated Needs Assessment and Accountability.
• CRS engaged in AIM, DRR and Good Enough Guide training
• World Vision initiated Good Enough Guide workshops with ECB agencies and other NGOs plus government, People In Aid and UN Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) simulation on Staff Care in Emergencies Mar ‘08.
• The Horn of Africa consortium evaluated their cash for food programs in Kenya.

Sri Lanka: ACCOUNTABILITY

• Mercy Corps: Field test the Good Enough Guide
• World Vision: Accountability tool development (HAT)

• December 2012: A new report Afghanistan: Humanitarianism in Uncertain Times from The Feinstein International Center looks at four decades of crisis in Afghanistan.
• MercyCorps ran training on the Good Enough Guide
• New Disaster Needs Analysis of the conflict in Afganistan released by ACAPS, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the ECB Project

• World Vision ran training for staff on the Good Enough Guide
• ECB Project and ACAPS Prepare New Disaster Needs Analysis on Food Insecurity in Lesotho

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 their 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.

UGANDA

• World Vision participated in Accountability framework research
• ECBinte-active humanitarian learning event held in Kampala 1 and 2 February 2012
• Our learning from the PDRA and Planning Project - February 2013 newlsetter article.

World Vision involved in interagency training on Good Enough Guide

World Vision trained staff on Good Enough Guide

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).
• January 2013 - The 2012 Bolivia Consortium Self-Assessment Survey is now available to download.

Bolivia: ACCOUNTABILITY

• CRS: Accountability work including Good Enough Guide
• World Vision involved 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.
• April 2012, members from the ECB Project’s Accountability and Impact Measurement (AIM) Standing Team undertook deployments in Bolivia and Bangladesh.
• September 2012, ECB Accountability and Impact Measurement (AIM) Standing Team deployed to Bolivia, to co-facilitate a workshop on the realities of implementing accountability in the field.
• September 2012: ECB Bolivia Consortium Develops Participatory Risk Assessment & Planning Tool and Training
• December 2012: AIM Standing Team ECB Bolivia Deployment Report Published. It includes news of a two day knowledge sharing workshop on accountability and impact measurement practices.
• March 2013 - Review of the Good Enough Guide to Assessments to take place in late April in ECB Bolivia.

UK: ACCOUNTABILITY

• Oxfam launched the Impact Measurement Good Enough Guide project  in partnership with the University of East Anglia (UEA).
• July 4 2012, ALNAP (the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitarian action) launched the first ever State of the Humanitarian System report
• A Good Enough Guide to Assessments (GEGA) planning meeting held in London in March, 2013.

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)
• Simulations held in Kenya, April 2010 & November 2011, and Uganda, November 2010
• Final two day ENHAnce workshop comprising simulation and learning event, 15-16 November 2012 in Kenya. ENHAnce participants come from several countries in the region: Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
• The ECB Horn of Africa consortium are planning a simulation in Uganda in May 2013. Read more.

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

PERU: ACCOUNTABILITY

• CARE Standing Team member deployed to set up accountability system
• World Vision participated in meetings on Good Enough Guide.

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.

Niger: ACCOUNTABILITY

• 10-23 November 2012: Accountability and Impact Measurement Standing Team deployment
• September 2012 issue of the Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, describes the benefits of a coordinated approach to needs assessments in Niger
• March 2012: Niger communities say they will run out of food before next harvest joint ECB / ACAPs study shows. Aid agencies call on donors to act now to prevent humanitarian disaster. Read the full report in English and French.
• CRS: Accountability and Impact Measurement – maintained contact post-standing team deployment.
• World Vision and government staff are given an introduction to Good Enough Guide
• October-November 2010: The ECB Niger consortium completed an evaluation of the West Africa (Sahel region) food crisis.
• The Niger consortium is turning the recommendations from recent joint evaluations and needs assessments into actions.
• September 12: Emergency Food Security & Livelihoods ‘48-hour Assessment Tool’ used in Niger.

• Save the Children hosted an inter-agency accountability in emergencies training session in Islamabad.
• CARE, MercyCorps, Save the Children and World Vision collaborated to help produce an Urdu translation of the Good Enough Guide (Oct 2011).

India: ACCOUNTABILITY

• 19 February 2013 - Good Enough Guide Training of Trainers module is now available in Hindi.

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).
   

Indonesia: ACCOUNTABILITY

• World Vision led 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 completed within 72 hours.
• Joint Needs Assessment real time database launched (trial)
• MercyCorps: Joint Needs Assessment, Metrics Project, Good Enough Guide Training implemented
• CRS: Joint Needs Assessment, Staff Metrics Project implemented
• 25-28 June 2012 Jakarta, Indonesia, ECB Indonesia held a learning workshop on Joint Needs Assessment (JNA), attended by three staff from the Project’s Bangladesh consortium
• August 2012: ACAPS Technical Support Mission Bolsters Coordinated Needs Assessment Work
• September 12: Emergency Food Security & Livelihoods ‘48-hour Assessment Tool’ used in Indonesia
• December 2012: Standing team deployed to ECB Indonesia
• 21 January 2013, ECB agencies respond to flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia. A joint proposal was submitted to USAID and JNA methodology used.
• 19 February 2013 - Good Enough Guide Training of Trainers module is now available in Bahasa Indonesian.

Bangladesh: CONSORTIUM ENGAGEMENT

• Bangladesh is one of our key ECB consortia countries – more details
• January 2013 - The 2012 Bangladesh Consortium Self-Assessment Survey is now available to download.
• November 2012: The Consortium Self-Assessment Survey (CSAS) workshop was held in ECB Bangladesh to discuss the process, methodology and approach used during the CSAS annual review process.
• October 2012: ALNAP recently published a blog “The trust factor: humanitarian networks in uncertain times” describing the function of humanitarian networks in Bangladesh. The article highlights the constructive work of the ECB Project and the value of their learning resource ‘What We Know About Collaboration: the ECB Country Consortium Experience’ and the fundamental importance of building and maintaining trust, acknowledged by the ECB Project and their ‘Building Trust in Diverse Teams’ tool.

• 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)

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

Switzerland

• 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.
• ECB Project Team presented an overview of the Project at the Shelter Centre, Geneva (Nov 2011).
• The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) launched the Guide to the 2010 HAP Standard in Accountability and Quality Management in Geneva on January 23, 2013. This puts the HAP Standard into context and identifies challenges and solutions for organizations looking to include accountability in their management systems.