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20 May 2013: EFSL 48-hour assessment tool - now available in Bahasa Indonesia

The Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods (EFSL) 48-hour assessment tool, developed by Oxfam GB and the ECB Project agencies, has been translated into Bahasa Indonesia. Read more

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

5 March 2013: ECB Project attends consultation on AADMER engagement and partnership in Thailand

The ECB Project is committed to sharing learning with sector partners. To this end ECB Indonesia’s Field Facilitator, Wahyu Widayanto, represented the ECB Project at the “South East Asia Civil Society Consultation on AADMER Engagement and Partnership*”, held in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 28 – 29, 2013. Read more

25 February 2013: Resources to Improve Shelter Sector Accountability Approaches

Over the past eighteen months, the ECB Project agencies have worked with the IASC Shelter Cluster to improve accountability to affected communities within emergency shelter programs. This was achieved through the provision of shelter training workshops and Shelter Accountability Resources to support shelter teams in the field. 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

12 February 2013: Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

After more than two years of fundraising, workshops, writing and peer review our new resource Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is available to download (free) and buy. Read more

29 January 2013: EFSL 48-hour assessment tool now available in English, French and Spanish

The increase in rapid-onset humanitarian emergencies has put pressure on those who need to make quick, well informed and effective decisions. In response, Oxfam, with the support of the ECB Project agencies, created an Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods (EFSL) ’48-hour assessment tool’, now available in English, French and Spanish. The purpose of the tool is to obtain a quick understanding of the EFSL situation within the first few days after a rapid-onset disaster so that humanitarian staff can make timely assessments that will inform the design of EFSL response programs. Read more

23 January 2013: ECB Consortia Countries launch Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

Last month all five ECB Project consortia in Bangladesh, Bolivia, the Horn of Africa, Indonesia and Niger, launched Toward Resilience: A Guide to DRR and CCA through a series of practical training workshops. Read more

21 January 2013: ECB agencies respond to flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia

Heavy rain, flooding and a burst levee (dyke) have affected approximately 55,000 people in Jakarta, Indonesia, with 19,000 evacuated from their homes. Three ECB Project agencies - Mercy Corps, Save the Children and World Vision - are considering submitting a joint proposal to USAID to provide non-food items and hygiene kit assistance to a proportion of the affected families in the worst hit districts of Jakarta (in the West, North and East of the city) over a one month period. Read more

15 January 2013: ‘Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid’ published by the Listening Project

Join the launch event today, January 15, at 15:30-17:30 (GMT UK). Find out how to join here. Read more

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