Partners

ACAPS - The Assessment Capacities Project

Tha ACAPS team works with the ECB Project in various ways. For example:

• Published a range of new Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) Secondary Data reviews of the emergency situations in Bangladesh, Horn of Africa and Niger.
• Assessment teams are working with most of our ECB consortia members, and other humanitarian partners, to develop coordinated needs assessment staff training and piloting. For example, Indonesia (JNA), Bolivia, Bangladesh and Somalia.
• Scheduled to released a report on Niger January 2012 coordinated needs assessment results.
• Collaborating to improve humanitarian needs assessments
• Download the presentation on ECB / ACAPS collaboration in the Horm of Africa.

Active Learning Network for Accountability & Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)

• Find out more about ALNAP 
• The Good Enough Guide in French and Accountability framework presented at the ALNAP Biannual Meeting in Senegal in December 2007
• Discussions ongoing about synergies between ECB Evaluation database and ALNAP database
• ECB paper “What We Know About Joint Evaluations of Humanitarian Action: Learning from NGO Experiences” published on the ALNAP website
• Extensive ECB contribution to the ALNAP review of Joint Evaluations published in the 2008 Review of Humanitarian Action. See also UNICEF below for RTE initiative.
• ECB Bangladesh present their successful experiences of joint advocacy at the 26th ALNAP Conference - Kuala Lumpar November 2010

Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre

Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre experts worked with ECB's Advisers during ECB's DRR & Climate Change conference June 8-12, 2009 in Bellagio, Italy.

British Red Cross

• Participated in the National Staff Development Program

Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA)

• CBHA humanitarian competencies program took place in Bolivia consortium May 2011
• CBHA Core Humanitarian Competency Framework launched in partnership with ECB November 2010

Disasters Emergency Committee

• Standing team members from World Vision and CARE engaged with the UK’s Disasters and Emergencies Committee (DEC) a fundraising alliance of 14 NGOs to help design their new accountability framework. This ensured that approaches were compatible and that the donor had a practical approach that fitted well with both ECB and Humanitarian Accountability Partnership approaches to accountability. Currently the 14 largest humanitarian organizations in the UK are being measured against this framework.

Emergency Personnel Network

• ECB supported formation of Emergency Personnel Network (EPN) regional networks in Africa and Asia
• ECB Simulation used at joint EPN/IAWG March 2008 event
• ECB Building Trust Toolkit to be presented at EPN Istanbul in May.
• Participants at the EPN Gatwick Conference (May 2009) discussed ideas for further research into ‘facilitating change’ which might be carried out for the benefit of our ECB Consortia, ECB Agencies, and the wider sector.

Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Action (ELRHA)

In April 2012 ELRHA launched the Online Guide to Constructing Effective Partnerships between academic and humanitarian actors - the collaboration between the University of East Anglia and Oxfam (on behalf of the ECB Project) is one of its core case studies.

Along with ALNAP, ELRHA operates the Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) which funded the University of Groningen's Humanitarian Genome Project - which itself is based on a partnership with the ECB Project.

European Commission - Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection (ECHO)

• ECB received approximately €1.1 million (US$1.5 million) of new funding from ECHO to support our planned activities in all three thematic areas - June 2011.
• Funding ECB agencies to develop supporting Communications tools and materials that will raise awareness of The Good Enough Guide to Accountability and Impact Measurement.
• Project led by Oxfam GB and World Vision International in 2009-2010.
• Productive dialogue continues between ECB and ECHO about the development of a proposal for emergency capacity building. ECB submitted the full package to ECHO under the ‘Enhanced Response Capacity’ in 2011.

Feinstein International Center

• Feinstein academic experts worked with ECB's Advisers during ECB's DRR & Climate Change conference June 8-12, 2009 in Bellagio, Italy.
   

Government of Pakistan

• Participated in the National Staff Development Program

Humanitarian Accountability Partnership

• HAP represented on editorial board for the Good Enough Guide
• Supported Standing Team deployment to Peru
• HAP-I presentation part of Nairobi event
• Good Enough Guide tools reproduced in the Guide to the HAP Standard
• The Bangladesh consortium held a Complaints Response Mechanism (CRM) workshop
  in collaboration with the Humanitarian Accountability Project (HAP).
• March 2010: The ECB Horn of Africa Consortium concluded their Learning and CEP Review and Revision events in Nairobi, with participation from sector partners such as HAP and People In Aid. 
• HAP working with ECB Bangladesh Consortium to build capacity in the handling of (and responding to) complaints.
• HAP are holding a TOT on Accountability in Bangkok and following the successful HAP CRM workshop in partnership with ECB in Bangladesh, have requested involvement from ECB agencies in this workshop.
• The Bangladesh consortium held a Complaints Response Mechanism (CRM) workshop in collaboration with HAP in Dec 2010
   

Humanitarian Practice Network

• ECB Bangladesh Consortium published article in Humanitarian Exchange May 2011
• HPN published ECB research on Staff Turnover as an HPN network paper

Inter-Agency Standing Committee

• ECB Agencies meet Global Food Security Cluster deployment in Niger and Burkina Faso and have discussions on the recent IASC initiative Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP).
• IASC Simulation Facilitator Training Sweden
• IASC Task Team on the Cluster Approach (TTCA) Sub-Group on Accountability & the ECB Project Cluster Accountability Initiative
• ECB Project agencies have worked with the IASC Task Team on the Cluster Approach (TTCA) Sub-Group on Accountability to Affected Populations since their inception in 2010 and through the ECB Project Cluster Accountability Initiative.

Inter-Agency Working Group

• Held Good Enough Guide Training in August 2007, and again in early 2008 following Kenya crisis
• Hosted Emergency Personnel Network and used ECB Simulation
• In Kenya, the ECB and IAWG members are in regular communications through the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) working group.
   

InterAction

• ECB Adviser formed and co-chairs Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group
   

LACRO

• Good Enough Guide and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) work presented in March, 2008, during the LACRO DRR workshop with CRS and CRS partner staff

Learning for International NGOs (LINGO)

• Provided Elluminate tool for National Staff Development

NetHope

• Nethope have been a major implementation and sustainability partner for the ECB Project. See the sections above for further details

People in Aid

• ECB shared self-assessment tools and methods at People in Aid HR conference in Madrid May 2011.
• ECB shared approaches to capacity building in East Africa at the People in Aid Humanitarian HR conference in June 2011. 
• CBHA rapid capacity assessment, led by People in Aid and supported by Oxfam and ECB Project Staff, took place in Indonesia in the first week of November 2010 as planned with excellent representation and participation from all CBHA agencies with in-country presence
• The Horn of Africa consortium are once again collaborating with People in Aid as a follow up to the seminal report on the research released earlier in 2010 investigating the issue of staff retention in the Horn of Africa. In partnership with People in Aid, a workshop using this module was held in Nairobi on Wednesday October 8th, 2010. The purpose of this workshop was to enhance participant knowledge and understanding regarding staff turnover and retention issues, equip participants with strategies, tools and techniques for enhancing retention / addressing staff turnover and ultimately, to improve employee engagement among consortia members and other agencies in the region.
• Find out more about People in Aid

PHREE-Way

• CARE shared the NSD design at a PHREE-Way meeting. They expressed interest in participating in National Staff Development (NSD) pilot and offered to design the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)piece of the curriculum.
• One PHREE-Way member participated in the Thailand NSD training
• ECB DRR publications incorporated into Phree-Way Resources library

Quality & Accountability Initiatives

• ECB represented at regular meetings of Quality and Accountability Initiatives. This has been as both observer and in providing an operational agency voice in their deliberations

Shelter Centre

• ECB Project present introduction to the project at November 2011 Shelter Centre Meeting 11b
• Shelter Centre and ECB exploring linkages between CORE capacity building and ENHAnce training programs
• ECB Project share launch of new ECHO-funded Accountability program with Shelter Cluster (led by CARE)

The Sphere Project

• The ECB Niger consortium will be hosting a Sphere handbook training in Niamey.
• New Sphere handbook released.
• Sphere standards referenced and promoted in ECB publications and tools.
• Various Good Enough Guide and Sphere trainings run concurrently.
• ECB participating in Sphere standards revision process in 2009.
• Bolivia consortium held suite of capacity building events between November and December 2010 which covered Sphere, and other tools and systems.

UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)

• Phase I: Important partner of ECB3 DRR initiative. Disseminated ECB3 pilot country and Overview reports

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

• Phase I: Consulted in development of ECB shared assessment tool – will form part of OCHA-led mapping exercise for humanitarian assessment
• Assisted in the planning and implementation of the Joint Needs Assessment in Indonesia, in September 2009, alongside ECB Indonesia consortia
• Representative from OCHA supported the Niger simulation held in February 2011.
• June 2010: Indonesia consortium host a JNA database workshop on the 29 – 30 June, for consortium member agencies (including IMC and MPBI), as well as OCHA and ACAPs staff. 
• August 2010: The IASC-mandated, OCHA-led Needs Assessment Task Force (NATF) released draft Operational Guidance for Coordinated Assessments in Humanitarian Crises. ECB invited to lead a field test of the Guidance.
• UNOCHA presented at the ECBinter-active Bolivia conference in November 2011.
  
  
   

UNICEF

• Oxfam and CARE advisors joined an UNICEF-ALNAP RTE grouping (supported by the UNICEF Evaluation Office) and involving a cross-agency Working Group. Initial research on RTE methodologies and approaches has been completed by Channel Research, and the ALNAP secretariat has taken on the process of developing and finalizing an RTE guide. 
• ECB Simulations tool shared with UNICEF preparedness team, and ECB invited to join future UNICEF simulations as participant observer. 
• Together with Save the Children as co-leads of Education Cluster, using Surge Capacity report to inform mapping of Education surge capacity. 
• Experts from UNICEF worked alongside  ECB staff in Bolivia on the rolling out of the Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) tool.
• Participated in simulation in Uganda Nov 2010. 
• Leading discussion in Uganda for further joint simulation activities.

United Nations Development Programme

• UNDP experts worked with ECB's Advisers during ECB's DRR & Climate Change conference June 8-12, 2009 in Bellagio, Italy.
   

University of East Anglia

• 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.

World Food Programme (WFP)

• Provided logistical support to National Staff Development Program
• ECB involved in peer review of WFP evaluation function
• Attended simulation in Uganda Nov 2010
• Field study conducted in communities in western and eastern Niger by the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) and the ECB Project, with input from the World Food Programme and the Government of Niger.