News: Horn of Africa

17 May 2013: ECB Project publish new Case Study on Simulations

The new case study addresses the questions ‘What is a simulation and why use them?’, before focusing on six different simulation types to compare, contrast and draw lessons from. Read more

13 May 2013: Good Enough Guide to Assessments – initial feedback complete

The Good Enough Guide to Assessments (GEGA) is being designed by the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS), using the ‘good enough’ approach, to produce a simple, practical handbook on needs assessments.  As part of the GEGA review process, three ECB Project consortia successfully held consultation workshops to provide feedback on the guide. Read more

25 April 2013: ‘Leaving Disasters Behind’ – an ECB guide to Disaster Risk Reduction in Ethiopia

In partnership with the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), the ECB Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative held a ‘writeshop’ in 2005 that brought key stakeholders together to talk about DRR, with special reference to Ethiopia. Read more

17 April 2013: Bangladesh consortium completes successful GEGA review and feedback workshop

The ECB Project and the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) are working together to develop a Good Enough Guide to Assessments (GEGA), designed to build the capacity of field staff, managers and technical staff to carry out needs assessments. Read more

16 April 2013: ECB’s Horn of Africa consortium to hold simulation in Uganda

Following the success of the Kenya Initial Rapid Assessment (KIRA) simulation the ECB Project’s Horn of Africa consortium began discussions to develop a multi-agency simulation in Uganda. Read more

2 April 2013: Learning from the City - a scoping study by the British Red Cross

A new study from the British Red Cross and its partners aims to provide a better understanding of the challenges posed by humanitarian action in urban areas, and how to approach them more strategically. Read more

15 March 2013: Review of the Good Enough Guide to Assessments under way in ECB Project Consortia

Three ECB Project consortia have agreed to review and feedback on the first draft of the Good Enough Guide to Assessments (GEGA), developed by the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS).

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6 March 2013: Watch ECB Bolivia’s new video about the PDRA Project

The ECB Project’s Bolivia consortium have developed a video summarising the journey of the Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment (PDRA) Project (Análisis de Riesgos y Planificación Participativa (ARPP). Read more

4 March 2013: KIRA election preparedness gathers pace in Kenya

The Kenya Initial Rapid Assessment (KIRA) is an initiative designed to bring humanitarian stakeholders together to ‘build a country-wide mechanism and capacity, capable at short notice to conduct a multi-agency, multi sector assessment of humanitarian needs.’ * Read more

21 February 2013: The AIM Standing Team Experiment

In 2011, the ECB Project agencies created a new Accountability and Impact Measurement (AIM) Standing Team initiative designed to train national staff from multiple agencies to support accountability to disaster affected communities and find ways to implement accountability in a practical and sustainable ways across their own agency programs. Read more