In The Field

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'

Oxfam used simulation tools for Avian flu simulation.

World Vision engaged in Community Emergency Response and Disaster Mitigation Project

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).

World Vision engaged in Community Emergency Response and Disaster Mitigation Project

Indonesia: PARTNERSHIPS

• Indonesia is one of our key ECB consortia countries – more details
• ECB Project Field Facilitators met in Indonesia in November 2012 for a milestone meeting to review Phase II of the ECB Project, and discuss interest and opportunity for Phase III, which may start in 2013.
• Food for the Hungry representatives have made contact with ECB Indonesia and Bangladesh consortia and are discussing a potential engagement

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: UN IAWG

• CARE participated in Interagency Working Group (IAWG) coordination following the Kenya election violence
• ECB Project presented at IAWG, Transparency International and Sphere Launch event in Nairobi on April 14, 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.

Pakistan: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• World Vision organised DRR capacity building and education with children

Pakistan: STAFF CAPACITY

• Oxfam: First part of the pilot for National Staff Capacity Project
• Mercy Corps: Staff attended the National Staff capacity project
• CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development Program

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

CARE participated in Georgia Simulation and ran own pilot for CARE Kosovo

• 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

• CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development Program
• Following cyclones Giovanna and Irina in February 2012, humanitarian agencies identified a need and requested the ECB Project to deploy to Madagascar to provide a combination of technical shelter advice and training on Sphere and Accountability.

Mozambique

• MercyCorps: development of ECB Simulations tool.
• Oxfam: deployment of Simulations tool in training.
   

World Vision engaged in Community Emergency Response and Disaster Mitigation Project

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.

Sierra Leone

• CRS participated in Simulations Project
• MercyCorps staff attended simulations training

Save the Children: ECB1, ECB2

Sri Lanka: STAFF CAPACITY

• World Vision participated in “Building Trust in Teams” pilot
• CARE Country Office piloted "Building Trust in Teams" toolkits

Sudan: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• 65 participants from CRS and Caritas partners took part in Emergency Preparedness Planning training.

Save the Children: ECB1

Sudan: ACCOUNTABILITY

• CARE Wellness Advisor piloted CARE Building Trust in Teams toolkits.

Tajikistan

• CARE participated in Save the Children-led DRR exercise
• Save the Children took part in Pilot Project ECB3
• MercyCorps participated in Pilot Project ECB 3

World Vision trained their staff on Good Enough Guide.

Thailand

• CARE helped organize National Staff Development session in Thailand
• MercyCorps staff attended the National Staff Capacity Project.
• Oxfam took part in second part of the pilot for National Staff Capacity Project.

• 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.

CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development program

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: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• Bolivia consortium developed a common DRR language and tools to improve the coherence and coordination of future DRR initiatives.
• Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation consultation workshops held. The guide was launched in Bolivia on 11 December 2012.
• The Bolivia consortium held a training and field testing workshop 2-8 July 2012 for the development of a Risks Analysis and Participative Planning tool called the ARPP (Análisis de Riesgos y Planificación Participativa).
• Our learning from the PDRA and Planning Project - February 2013 newlsetter article.
• 6 March 2013 - ECB Bolivia release their video summarising the journey of the PDRA project.

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.

• 19-30 November 2012: Accountability and Impact Measurement Standing Team learning workshop
• MercyCorps published a cost-benefit analysis for a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) program in Kailali. The report found that the benefits strongly outweigh the costs of DRR, by about 3.5 to 1 (October 2010).

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.

World Vision conducted its annual global relief forum in Ottawa, Canada, where the use and impact of ECB tools on the quality of emergency response was shared (May 2011).
 

Ethiopia: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• World Vision in the process of expanding the ECB Unit to mainstream Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into all development plans, inter-agency networking on DRR.
• Mercy Corps: DRR measures
• CRS: DRR measures
• 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.

Ethiopia: STAFF CAPACITY

• Oxfam participated in Metrics project.
• Mercy Corps participated in Metrics project, Simulations.
• CRS participated in Metrics project, Simulations Project.
• Save the Children participated in Metrics project.

Georgia

• Oxfam involved in Simulation training and activity
• CRS engaged with Simulations TOT and simulation exercises with Georgian staff
• CARE staff members participated in the Simulations pilot

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.

Peru: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• Mercy Corps included some Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in emergency response project

• World Vision: Community Emergency Response and Disaster Mitigation Project

Indonesia: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• Indonesia Disaster Response Engagement Protocols (DREP) signed off on April 1, 2011.
• Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation launched in Indonesia on 12 December 2012.
• A global Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment (PDRA) Project learning event was hosted by ECB Indonesia November 19-20, 2012
   

Save the Children: ECB1

Malawi: STAFF CAPACITY

• CARE Country Office piloted Building Trust in Teams toolkits
• Oxfam used Building Trust for Diverse Teams
   

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).

Bangladesh: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• September 2012: Bangladesh Passes Disaster Management Act
• Workshop develops a Statement of Principals following the analysis of the ECB Readiness Assessment Protocols (RAP) (October 2010).
• 2007 World Vision involved in on-going preparations for Cyclone Sidr response learning event; Development of Early Warning Systems (EWS), awareness raising with communities on EWS
• ECB Bangladesh Consortium publishes Voice of Journalists for Disaster Management Act with journalists in Bangladesh (May 2011).
• Article written for Humanitarian Practice Network April 2011 newsletter
• Bangladesh consortium organizes consultation workshop on 31 July 2011 at BRAC Inn, Dhaka for providing input in the development of Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. The guide was launched in Bangladesh on 11th December 2012.

India: ACCOUNTABILITY

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

India: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• World Vision organised Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) capacity building with children in schools

Ethiopia: ACCOUNTABILITY

• Trócaire trained their staff and partners using the 'Good Enough Guide' Accountability materials.

Bolivia: ECBINTER-ACTIVE

• The second in our series of ECBinter-active events took place in La Paz, Bolivia (28-30th November 2011). Read what happened at the event on our ECBinter-active Bolivia pages.

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: STAFF CAPACITY

• Indonesia ENHAnce (Expanding National Humanitarian Ability)
• Final two day ENHAnce workshop comprising simulation and learning event, 6-7 November 2012.
• The consortium agreed to test their first Consortium Engagement Protocols and Standard Operating Procedures.
• ECB Bangladesh Field Facilitator visits Indonesia for a cross-consortia learning exchange
• 2010 Draft Consortium Engagement Protocols Tested during the Mount Merapi and Metawai island response programs
• CARE participated in Metrics pilot and used data to inform decision making; CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development Plan; CARE lead the database pilot process
• Oxfam tested Staff Metrics Pilot in Aceh
• Consortium Learning Review (CLR) and Consortium Engagement Plan (CEP) review and revision workshop in Jakarta 26th and 27th of April, 2011.
• CBHA event held in Indonesia in order to capture learning from the Humanitarian Staff Development Project and discuss new training programmes (December 2011).
• Simulation held in Jakarta, February 2012

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.

Sudan: STAFF CAPACITY

• CARE participated in the Metrics Project, which has been shown to add to decision-making.
• CRS participated in Metrics Project.
• MercyCorps participated in Metrics Project.
• Oxfam participated in Metrics Project.
• 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.

United States: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• ECB DRR Advisers came together for a face-to-face meeting on April 4 and 5 2011 in Washington, DC.
• October 2012: Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation pre-launch in Washington DC

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)

Niger: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• Our learning from the PDRA and Planning Project - February 2013 newlsetter article.
• Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation consultation workshops held in Niger (July 2011). The guide was launched in Niger 17 December 2012.
• ACAPS, CALP, Infoasaid and the ECB Project produce a new Secondary Data Review for Niger (November 2011).

Bolivia: STAFF CAPACITY

• 2012 Bolivia ENHAnce (Expanding National Humanitarian Ability)
• Final two day ENHAnce workshop comprising simulation and learning event, 4-5 December 2012.
• CBHA humanitarian competencies development program – for which ECB is an implementing partner - launched in Bolivia (November 2010).
• Consortium members participated in CBHA National Staff Development Program workshops (September 2011).
• The The third day of ECBinter-active Bolivia was dedicated to the CBHA's Humanitarian Staff Development Program in order to capture learning and discuss new training programmes (November 2011).
• Building Trust: A Concise Facilitation Handbook now available in Spanish (April 2011).
• April 2010 Bolivia consortium held first inter-agency emergency simulation

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.

Bangladesh: STAFF CAPACITY

• ECB Bangladesh to launch ENHAnce replication in 2013.
• Bangladesh ENHAnce (Expanding National Humanitarian Ability)
• Final two day ENHAnce workshop comprising simulation and learning event, 11-12 November 2012.
• March 2012: Emergency Food Security & Livelihoods (EFSL) assessment tools training
• ECB Bangladesh organised a multi-agency simulation held in Dhaka, observed by representatives from the Bolivia consortium as part of their learning exchange visit (Sept 2011).
• Other simulations held in March 2010 (CBHA) and February 2012 (ENHAnce)
• CBHA event held in Bangladesh in order to capture learning from the Humanitarian Staff Development Project and discuss new training programmes (November 2011).

Kenya: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation consultation workshops - July 2011. The guide was launched in the Horn of Africa on 13 December 2012.
• Oxfam undertook collaborative research to identify the barriers to effective emergency response

 Niger: Staff Capacity

• Niger ENHAnce (Expanding National Humanitarian Ability)
• Final two day ENHAnce workshop comprising simulation and learning event, 21-22 November 2012.
• ECB Niger consortium held first inter-agency simulation (February 2011).

Somalia: STAFF CAPACITY

• ECB Project and ACAPS organised needs assessment training for field staff (October 2011).
• 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.

Horn of Africa: PARTNERSHIPS

• The ECB Project, in collaboration with ACAPS, led and released a Secondary Data Review on the Horn of Africa drought.

United States: ACCOUNTABILITY AND IMPACT MEASUREMENT

• ECB Accountability and Impact Measurement (AIM) Advisors presented on the Good Enough Guide at the InterAction Forum in Washington DC (Sept 2011).
• InterAction Forum 2012 - Complaints Response Mechanism workshop highlights ECB Project’s accountability and impact measurement initiatives

Thailand: DRR/CCA

• CRS and Save the Children organised first Disaster Risk Reduction/Climate Change Adaption (DRR/CCA) Practioner's Guide Summit in Bangkok, with support from partners. Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation will be launched in December 2012.

Tajikistan: ACCOUNTABILITY

• MercyCorps Tajikistan have produced a Russian translation of the Good Enough Guide - please contact the ECB Project to obtain a copy of this version.

Indonesia: ECBINTER-ACTIVE

• The first in our series of ECBinter-active events took place in Jakarta, Indonesia (15-16th November 2011). Read what happened at the event on our ECBinter-active Indonesia pages.

Niger: ECBINTER-ACTIVE

• The third of our ECBinter-active events took place in Niamey, Niger (18-19th January 2012). Read what happened at the event on our ECBinter-active Niger pages.

Horn of Africa: ECBINTER-ACTIVE

• The fourth ECBinter-active event took place in Kampala, Uganda (1st-2nd February 2012). Read what happened at the event on our ECBinter-active Horn of Africa pages.

• ECB Project research partner, the University of East Anglia (UEA) is field testing the new ECB methodology for impact measurement in the Chimaltenango area of Guatemala 12-22 March 2012.

• On July 18 2012, the Washington DC CARE USA office hosted an ECB Project update in order to promote dialogue and increase awareness of ECB objectives and tools.
• On January 17, 2013 a second ECB Project update was held in Washington DC to update on new resources and latest joint program activities.

The final in our series of ECBinter-active events took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh 28-29 February 2012. Read what happened at the event on our ECBinter-active Bangladesh pages.

Ivory Coast

• In March 2012, the ECB Project was deployed to Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) to undertake a scoping study of accountability to affected populations within the Shelter Cluster.

Disaster Needs Analysis (DNA) of conflict and food insecurity in Northern Mali produced by ACAPS and the ECB Project (November 2012)

• 2 January 2013: ACAPS release the latest data after 21 months of conflict in Syria where an estimated four million people have been affected by the crisis

• Syria Crisis Support: Arabic-Language Humanitarian Tools and Resources

• November 2012: The Consortium Self-Assessment Survey (CSAS) workshop was held in ECB Horn of Africa to discuss the process, methodology and approach used during the CSAS annual review process.
• January 2013 - The 2012 Horn of Africa Consortium Self-Assessment Survey is now available to download.
• Our learning from the PDRA and Planning Project - February 2013 newlsetter article.

• November 12- The Consortium Self-Assessment Survey (CSAS) workshop was held in ECB Indonesia to discuss the process, methodology and approach used during the CSAS annual review process.
• January 2013 - The 2012 Indonesia Consortium Self-Assessment Survey is now available to download.

January 2013 - The 2012 Niger Consortium Self-Assessment Survey is now available to download.

• UNISDR and African Union to host Fourth Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Tanzania in February 2013.