Agency staff
Angela Rouse, CARE ECB Agency Manager
Angela works closely with CARE’s accountability, staff capacity and DRR advisors to coordinate their engagement and support to the ECB Project as per CARE’s agency performance improvement plan (APIP). She also supports CARE’s engagement in the country consortia, particularly in Niger, where CARE is the lead agency, and contributes to the fundraising efforts for the project.
Her interest is accountability, particularly beneficiary community participation, and she has recently been involved in an evaluation of CARE and Save The Children’s Haiti response.
Experience has shown that the wake of a major disaster is the wrong time to try to develop new guidelines and systems to address an emergency, so I’m really excited to be able to contribute to such an ambitious and innovative project to build emergency capacity before the onset of a crisis.
The project importantly captures and disseminates knowledge and experience, enabling not just an individual or an organisation to gain knowledge, but also allowing the humanitarian sector as a whole to take a stride forward.
LeAnn Hager, Catholic Relief Services ECB Agency Manager
As ECB Manager for CRS during the past two years, LeAnn Hager works closely with Principals and Advisors to promote the ECB project across the agency. LeAnn sits in on the monthly telcons, and supports advisors and fundraising actions. LeAnn also sees herself as the gatekeeper for the Indonesia consortium. With more than ten years working overseas, she understands the demands and challenges of working in an environment where expectations are high.
The most valuable aspect I promote about ECB is the fact there is no end to the learning that can take place from each other. The focus truly is promotion of quality standards for the humanitarian community and contributing to its performance by freely sharing resources and tools. The caliber of colleagues throughout the agencies and project team doesn’t hurt either!
Catherine Gould, Oxfam ECB Agency Manager
Catherine coordinates Oxfam's involvement with the ECB Project to help ensure Oxfam continues to proactively contribute to the project's collaborative initiatives, as well as to maximise the benefits to Oxfam's ongoing work in developing capacity in humanitarian response, accountability to beneficiaries, impact measurement and disaster risk reduction.
Oxfam plays a particular role in leading the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies in Bolivia and Catherine supports the Consortium to plan and work together on joint capacity building initiatives and joint approaches to programming.
As part of the ECB Project, I work with an extraordinary number of competent colleagues in three different languages across organisational boundaries and country cultures. Conversations are wonderfully diverse as the project brings together the most senior of global specialists - across six different agencies - with national staff who are experts on their country contexts.
Keith Buck, World Vision ECB Agency Manager
Keith manages World Vision’s involvement in ECB, and works closely with staff involved in governance, advising on the three ECB themes, participating in the field consortia, and fund-raising. He also leads the planning, monitoring and reporting on WVI’s ECB–related activities.
Keith also supports World Vision’s engagement in the country consortia, particularly in the Horn of Africa, where WVI is the lead agency, and contributes to the fundraising efforts for the project.
Humanitarian organizations no longer have the luxury, if indeed they ever did, of doing everything solo. Donors increasingly demand, and rightfully so, a cooperative approach, and value for their contributions. Projects like ECB can promote this through building trust, standards and a joint approach to common issues we all face, like staff development, disaster risk reduction and accountability. In the end, it’s all about maximising our impact on the lives of others.
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