ECB Project on Twitter

Word
downloads:

Download the full Good Enough Guide
module resource package

Module 2: The 5 Steps of Accountability and Impact Measurement

This module explores the 5 steps of accountability and impact measurement in the Good Enough Guide. Participants will understand:

What are 5 steps to ensure accountability in projects and programmes, and why are they important?
What are the practical implications of the 5 steps? What are the key challenges in realizing them?

Master the 5 steps and be clear about the “why, when, why” in dealing with them.
Have shared practice and challenges relating to the 5 steps.

At the end of this session the trainer will have covered the following points:

Accountability and impact measurement in practice can be simple and practical. And yet, when realized, they will have a major impact in improving the quality of aid, and its responsiveness to the needs and aspiration of affected people.
The Good Enough Guide applies five simple steps to assist in being systematic in accountability and impact measurement practices.

#	Title	Objective	Activity type	Time	Materials
01	Five steps for Accountability & Impact Measurement	To give an overview of the five practical steps to becoming accountable as described in the Good Enough Guide	Presentation	10’	PPT Five steps for Accountability & Impact Measurement
02	Involving people at every stage	To appreciate the implications of the first step in the Good Enough Guide: “Involve people at every stage”	Video, groupwork and plenary discussion.	20’
03	The Five steps: why, when, what	To introduce five practical steps to becoming accountable as described in the GEG and share practice for each of the those steps	Groupwork	30’
04	Responding to feedback	Participants are confronted with the perceptions from affected people about an emergency, and are asked to make sense of them using the 5 steps.	Groupwork	60’
05	Accountability implementation challenges	To have participants sharing and discussing the implementation challenges on accountability & impact measurement they encountered.	Presentation	30’	Handout: implementation challenges (to be sent BEFORE training to participants!)