ECB Tools SummaryInter-Agency Standing Team
What is it?
The Standing Team is a group of agency staff who offer assistance in implementing accountability and impact measurement initiatives.
Why is it useful?
In the field, good practice in accountability and impact measurement is quite limited, in part because field staff often lack the necessary skills and tools.
In the area of accountability and impact measurement, the ECB agencies have used a collaborative approach to form a Standing Team of experienced emergency workers that are available for short-term deployments. The Standing Team was created in ECB Phase I to help country offices that want to work with sister NGOs to strengthen their accountability to local people and better evaluate the effects of their work.
In a typical deployment, over a two to four week period, two to four Standing Team members will carry out the work as defined in a terms of reference prepared for the assignment by interested country offices. Possibilities for deployments include:
- Joint evaluations of emergency programs
- Reviews to assess and document current practice of accountability and impact measurement and advise and assist field staff in making improvements
- Training, induction and coaching of field staff on accountability and impact measurement practices in emergencies, including on the Good Enough Guide
- Promote the implementation of lessons learnt from previous deployments and evaluations
- Documentation of field practice on accountability and impact measurement to share widely across agencies and encourage institutional change
While some agencies continue to manage an internal accountability Standing Team, the ECB project has received funding to relaunch the inter-agency Standing Team in 2011. Plans to recruit and train new members are underway from September 2011. Once members are trained they will be available for deployments to ECB consortia countries and regions. We will share details of our progress soon.
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