"ECB has led us to take on new things, made us stronger about our convictions about what might work, and made us more open to exploring solutions for the industry, not just for the agency."
Mignon Mazique
Executive Counselor
Mercy Corps
What is a CEP?
Each country has devised a Consortium Engagement Plan (CEP) to break down the next four years into clearly defined joint activities that focus on the project’s cross-cutting themes:
The CEPs are focussed on collaborative activities that will:
- Bring together each agency’s expertise
- Save valuable resources
- Enable field-level practitioners to share learning and best practice with key humanitarian partners in their country or region.
The Consortium Engagement Plans also enable each agency to clearly communicate their field-level priorities with their head office (Objective 2) and find valuable opportunities to work together with ECB’s global network of partners.
This was demonstrated with the launch of an Oxfam & World Vision-led accountability initiative to pilot-test a new European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) funded Good Enough Guide project with the Bangladesh and Horn of Africa Consortia.
Working in partnership, this project team gained a clear understanding of beneficiaries’ needs through defining specific research and pilot activities that can be integrated into their CEPs.
The Consortia Engagement Plans provide each country with a clearly defined ECB vision from which field-based project teams can build new connections with beneficiaries, colleagues and partners from the local level out into the global humanitarian community.
The final CEP workshops for ECB Project year 5 will be held in each consortium in the first six months of 2012.
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