The ECB Project succesfully held the fourth of our ECBinter-active regional learning events in Uganda on 1 and 2 February 2012. Read our conference summary and the participant blog.
ECB World Vision Adventures in Partnering series Case Study E "From chaos to collaboration - ECB as stimulus for joint working in Uganda"
ECB Tools SummaryEmergency Capacity Building in the Horn of Africa
Led by World Vision, the Horn of Africa Consortium includes Oxfam GB, CARE, CRS, Mercy Corps, Save the Children, Concern Universal, Concern Worldwide, and UN HABITAT. Countries include Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia. This regional Consortium is working together with the Inter-Agency Working Group on Disaster Preparedness (IAWG) to effectively coordinate the exchange of information and organize joint training initiatives with ECB agencies and the IAWG subgroups.
View the latest secondary data review of the Horn of Africa crisis - developed in partnership with the ACAPS. Published December 2011
The regional approach was chosen due to many cross-border issues including disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, conflict and refugee flows, trans-border pastoralist movements, and regional supply chains of food impacting the level of risk in the Horn of Africa. In recent months the Horn agencies have responded to slow-onset disasters such as widespread drought and food crises.
Inter-agency simulation exercises and training of trainers were held in Kenya in March 2008, April 2010 and Uganda in November 2010. Participants from over 20 humanitarian agencies furthered their understanding of where to focus future coordination and emergency capacity building efforts and the key skills gaps in their agencies.
Working together with members of the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA), ECB teams contributed towards the development of a core humanitarian competencies framework and leadership behaviour framework. These frameworks define the core skills gaps and opportunities for improvement in the CBHA training curriculum program that started in February 2011. Faced with the reality of frequent staff turnover, the competencies framework and training curriculum will provide an agreed set of skills and behaviours that agencies can use to ensure staff they recruit or train to reach a minimum level of competence.
The Horn of Africa Consortium is working with People in Aid to develop their understanding of humanitarian staff retention challenges in the region. A report outlines a series of recommendations, and best practice examples, that will be combined with further training in 2011-2012. Sharing experiences to date and collaborating to develop effective solutions will enable program managers to adapt and adopt their strategies to continually improve staff engagement and retention.
Recently members of the ECB Horn of Africa consortium presented on approaches to capacity building in East Africa, for the People in Aid Humanitarian HR conference held in Nairobi in June 2011.
Following an initial meeting of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) experts held in Nairobi in August 2010, ECB is supporting the IAWG subgroup on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) to finalise a strategy and plan to pro-actively engage in advocacy, roll out an interactive database of DRR projects in the region, and develop an inter-agency framework for staff capacity development on DRR and CCA. The ECB Project also works closely with ACCRA with their activities in the Horn of Africa to ensure that the work being conducted by ECB complements the advocacy work being conducted by ACCRA.
The Horn of Africa consortium is led by World Vision, and Field Facilitator Massimo Altimari.
Read our latest news on our activities in the Horn of Africa.
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