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Staff Capacity Building

ECBinter-active Conference Series
November 2011 – February 2012 sees the first ever series of ECBinter-active regional events, in which for the first time, we share our program and practical learning on humanitarian capacity building with the wider humanitarian sector.

Please join us at our final ECBinter-active learning conference: Dhaka, Bangladesh 28-29 February 2012. Please register your interest in attending.

You can also read conference summaries from our past events in Indonesia, Bolivia, Niger and Uganda.

The most valuable resources for humanitarian agencies in responding to and preparing for emergencies are their local and international staff. Through the ECB Project's Staff Capacity theme, IWG agencies are working to improve the speed and quality of emergency response through improved practice in the recruitment, retention, development and deployment of skilled and experienced staff and teams. ECB has partnered with several other organizations in the humanitarian sector to better understand the challenges and to develop and test innovative solutions.

Oxfam: Used simulation tools for Avian flu simulation.

CARE and Save the Children request a Joint Evaluation of their humanitarian response to the January earthquake (September 2010).

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.

Oxfam: First part of the pilot for National Staff Capacity Project

Mercy Corps: Staff attended the National Staff capacity project

CARE: Participated in Georgia Simulation and ran own pilot for CARE Kosovo

CARE: Staff member participated in the National Staff Development Program

Mercy Corps: development of ECB Simulations tool.

Oxfam: deployment of Simulations tool in training.

CRS: Simulations Project

Mercy Corps: Staff attend simulations training

World Vision: “Building Trust in Teams” pilot

CARE: Country Office piloted "Building Trust in Teams" toolkits

CRS and Caritas: 65 participants from CRS and Caritas partners took part in Emergency Preparedness Planning training.

CARE: Wellness Advisor piloted CARE Building Trust in Teams toolkits.

CARE: Helped organize National Staff Development session in Thailand

Mercy Corps: Staff attended the National Staff Capacity Project.

Oxfam: 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.

CARE: Staff member participated in the National Staff Development program

February 2011: 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.

June 2011: ECB Indonesia consortium members visited the ECB Bolivia consortium for a learning exchange.

Bolivia consortium held first inter-agency emergency simulation.

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).

Oxfam: Metrics

Mercy Corps: Metrics, simulations, DRR

CRS: Metrics, Simulations Project

Oxfam: Simulation training and activity

CRS: Simulations TOT and simulation exercise with Georgian staff

CARE: Staff members participated in the Simulations pilot

CRS: Guatemala Collaboration Platform

Oxfam: DRR, interest in Metrics, Guatemala Collaboration Platform.

Mercy Corps: DRR, Guatemala Collaboration Platform

Save the Children: DRR

CARE: Country Office piloted Building Trust in Teams toolkits

Oxfam: Building Trust for Diverse Teams

The Inter-agency Working Group or IWG, which includes the emergency directors from all of the ECB agencies, held their twice-yearly meeting this week (April 4-9, 2011) in Seattle.

CARE: CARE staff member participated in the National Staff Development Program

Trócaire train their staffs and partners using the 'Good Enough Guide' Accountability materials.

Save the Children: Metrics, DRR

CARE translated the 'Good Enough Guide' accountability materials into Creole.

Save the Children train staff and partners using the 'Good Enough Guide' accountability materials (in French).

CARE: Participated in the Metrics Project, which has been shown to add to decision-making.

CRS: Participated in Metrics Project.

Mercy Corps: Participated in Metrics Project.

Oxfam: Participated in Metrics Project.

Bangladesh: CONSORTIUM ENGAGEMENT PLAN

Consortium Engagment Plan (CEP)/ Consortium Learning Review (CLR) held 4-5 May, 2011

February 2011: ECB Niger consortium held first inter-agency simulation.

July 2011: DRR Practitioner's Guide consultation workshops held in Niger.

November 2010: CBHA humanitarian competencies development program – for which ECB is an implementing partner - launched in Bolivia

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

ECB sharing self-assessment tools and methods at People in Aid HR conference in Madrid May 2011.

People in Aid worked in partnership with the ECB Horn of Africa Consortium to deliver a report in March 2010 entitled Addressing Staff Retention in the Horn of Africa

ECB, together with the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA), recently confirmed a new funding award from the UK Department for International Development (DFID). A new staff capacity building initiative will focus on the creation of a staff development programme and will be piloted and rolled-out in ECB consortia countries from the start of 2010.

The major outputs from ECB's Staff Capacity work in Phase I of the Project are listed below. Click on the links to learn more and access resources.

In ECB Phase II, we continue to test, develop and refine these tools and knowledge products, particularly in the five ECB consortia in Bolivia, Niger, the Horn of Africa, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Visit the ECB Phase II section of this site to learn more.

Building Trust in Diverse Teams	A practical toolkit and set of approaches teams can utilize to both measure and improve levels of trust in emergency teams.
National Staff Development Program	A sustainable, replicable program to increase the number of agency staff at the national level capable of leading and managing emergency programs.
Staff Capacity Metrics	A web-based tool which allows agency field offices to capture and analyze critical emergency staffing indicators in real-time.
Simulations Project	Emergencies simulated for learners to develop responses
Surge Capacity Research	People in Aid's research to identify triggers and drivers for agencies to scale up or down rapidly in any given location.
Staff Retention and Turnover	People in Aid's study interviewed employees of ECB agencies to identify factors in staff retention and turnover.
Exchange Visits and the Staff Capacity Framework	Exchange visits between peer professionals at headquarters and field offices led to the identification, documentation, and sharing of a series of common challenges and promising practices.

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