The West Sumatra earthquake response provided us with opportunities, challenges and learning. Working with the ECB Joint Needs Assessment tool has harmonized the mutual understanding among ECB members that working with a uniformly developed tool will significantly minimize the risk of bias with emergeny assessment data.
Gunawan Zakki
ECB Field Facilitator
Emergency Capacity Building Project
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: Staff Capacity, Disaster Risk Reduction and Accountability & Impact Measurement. The CEPs are focussed on collaborative activities that will bring together each agency’s expertise, save valuable resources and 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 most recently demonstrated with the launch of an Oxfam & World Vision-led accountability initiative to pilot-test a new ECHO funded Good Enough Guide project with the Bangladesh and Horn of Africa Consortia. Working in partnership, this project team will gain 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.
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