In The Field

Bangladesh: ACCOUNTABILITY

• Save the Children hosted an inter-agency accountability in emergencies training and Cyclone Aila review in Dhaka
• 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 will hold an accountability workshop in Dhaka on 20 March 2012, supported by the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO).

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
• Food for the Hungry representatives have made contact with ECB Indonesia and Bangladesh consortia and are discussing a potential engagement

Kenya: STAFF CAPACITY

• 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

• 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)

MercyCorps ran training on the Good Enough Guide

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

World Vision ran training for staff on the Good Enough Guide

CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development Program

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.

World Vision participated in Accountability framework research

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).

Bolivia: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

• Bolivia consortium developed a common DRR language and tools to improve the coherence and coordination of future DRR initiatives.
• DRR Practitioner's Guide consultation workshops held.

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.

Bolivia: SIMULATIONS

• Bolivia consortium held first inter-agency emergency simulation.

UK: ACCOUNTABILITY

• Oxfam launched the Impact Measurement Good Enough Guide project  in partnership with the University of East Anglia (UEA).

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).

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

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.
   

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

• 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.

• 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

• Workshop develops a Statement of Principals following the analysis of the ECB Readiness Assessment Protocols (RAP) (October 2010).

• 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 newsletter

• Bangladesh consortium organizes consultation workshop on 31 July 2011 at BRAC Inn, Dhaka for providing input in the development of Practitioner’s Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation.

India: ACCOUNTABILITY

• CARE India translated the Good Enough Guide into Hindi

India: DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

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

Save the Children: ECB2

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

• 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.

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

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. 

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.

Bangladesh: CONSORTIUM ENGAGEMENT

• Bangladesh is one of our key ECB consortia countries – more details
• 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

• ECB Niger consortium held first inter-agency simulation (February 2011).
• DRR Practitioner's Guide consultation workshops held in Niger (July 2011).
• ACAPS, CALP, Infoasaid and the ECB Project produce a new Secondary Data Review for Niger (November 2011).

Bolivia: STAFF CAPACITY

• 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).
• CBHA event held in Bolivia in order to capture learning from the Humanitarian Staff Development Project and discuss new training programmes (November 2011).

• Building Trust: A Concise Facilitation Handbook now available in Spanish (April 2011).

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).

Bangladesh: STAFF CAPACITY

• 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).
• 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

• DRR Practitioner's guide consultation workshops - July 2011

• Oxfam undertook collaborative research to identify the barriers to effective emergency response

Niger is one of our key ECB consortia countries - more details

Somalia: STAFF CAPACITY

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

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).

Thailand: DRR/CCA

• CRS and Save the Children organised frst Disaster Risk Reduction/Climate Change Adaption (DRR/CCA) Practioner's Guide Summit in Bangkok, with support from partners.

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.

Indinesia: STAFF CAPACITY

• CBHA event held in Indonesia in order to capture learning from the Humanitarian Staff Development Project and discuss new training programmes (December 2011).

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.