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ECB Project Accountability Activities Overview
Andrea Stewart
ECB Communications Manager
www.ecbproject.org
SUMMARY OF PRESENTATION
Overview of ECB Accountability activities
Highlights and examples of field-focused accountability activities and training
ECB Accountability to Affected Communities – Communications Project
Background on the materials & examples of implementation and training
A quick summary of our Accountability & Impact Measurement (AIM) initiatives:
• Accountability Advisors x12 specialists from 6 agencies
• Conference call x1 per month to discuss collaboration initiatives, x2 per year to meet face-to-face
• 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
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
Introduction to the ECB Accountability – Communications Project
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
www.ecbproject.org/goodenoughguide
View and Download all the materials online
Examples of implementation & learning opportunities to test and share these materials:
• Inter-agency training began in Bangladesh in 2009 – further initiatives include HAP Complaints Response Mechanism training
• Translation and dissemination of the tools in Haiti
• Inter-agency training following Pakistan floods (2010), in Ethiopia, Kenya, Bolivia, Indonesia, and plans underway across Asia (led by World Vision)
• 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:
• Accountability Standing Team – a group of national, regional and global staff that can be deployed to advise on M&E / Accountability issues
• Impact Measurement study – led by Oxfam - a project to
• JNA testing in other countries – rolling out the methodology and online data capture in two other ECB consortia
• Further engagement with UN clusters – review gaps with cluster engagement and subject to funding to support this work
