ECB Project
Accountability
Activities Overview
Andrea Stewart
ECB Communications Manager
www.ecbproject.org
SUMMARY OF PRESENTATION
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Overview of ECB Accountability activities
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Highlights and examples of field-focused
accountability activities and training
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ECB Accountability to Affected
Communities – Communications Project
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Background on the materials & examples
of implementation and training
A quick summary of our Accountability & Impact Measurement
(AIM) initiatives:
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Accountability Advisors x12 specialists from 6 agencies
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Conference call x1 per month to discuss collaboration initiatives, x2 per
year to meet face-to-face
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Focus on collaboration between agencies, and with external networks and
partners e.g. HAP, Sphere, ACAPS / NATF, clusters in-country
Highlights from our field-focussed Accountability
Initiatives
• Accountability – a set of common principles between 6 agencies*
• Joint Needs Assessment (JNA) testing in Indonesia and Bolivia in
2010
• Joint Evaluations in Indonesia, Niger, Kenya, and Haiti
• Accountability focused training in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Haiti,
Kenya, Ethiopia
• Joint Sphere / HAP guidelines revision workshops held in
Bangladesh
• ECB evaluation database merging with ALNAP evaluation database
*all available online www.ecbproject.org – photocopies available today
Introduction to the ECB Accountability – Communications Project
2005 Development of the Good Enough Guide to Impact Measurement &
Accountability
2007 Launch of a new project to create a package of communications materials for
Accountability, M&E staff, emergency responders, and field staff to support them to:
• Understand the key principals of accountability to beneficiaries / communities
• Promote the principals of accountability in your communities and with colleagues
• Train your colleagues and partners
• Improve communication with your communities / beneficiaries
• Test the simple Good Enough Guide training tools and communications materials in
your programs
There are materials available to the humanitarian community
How were these materials created?
• Agency and field research into what formats would be most useful
• Draft materials developed and field tested in Kenya, Myanmar, Peru,
Bolivia and Lebanon with interviews and focus groups with Country Office
managers, field staff and community groups
• Website developed for everyone to view and download the materials and
find out more about the key accountability principals
• Technical guidelines developed to explain more detail
a) how the project was developed
b) how to adapt the materials
View and Download all the materials online
www.ecbproject.org/goodenoughguide
Examples of implementation & learning
opportunities to test and share these materials:
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Inter-agency training began in Bangladesh in 2009 – further initiatives
include HAP Complaints Response Mechanism training
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Translation and dissemination of the tools in Haiti
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Inter-agency training following Pakistan floods (2010), in Ethiopia, Kenya,
Bolivia, Indonesia, and plans underway across Asia (led by World Vision)
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Opportunities created to share tools and methodology with other
networks including ALNAP, VOICE (EU), Inter-Action (USA), Bond (UK)
Future ECB Project Joint Accountability Plans:
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Accountability Standing Team – a group of national, regional and global
staff that can be deployed to advise on M&E / Accountability issues
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Impact Measurement study – led by Oxfam - a project to
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JNA testing in other countries – rolling out the methodology and online
data capture in two other ECB consortia
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Further engagement with UN clusters – review gaps with cluster
engagement and subject to funding to support this work
THANK YOU
Andrea Stewart, ECB Communications Manager
andrea.stewart@co.care.org
VISIT: www.ecbproject.org