ECB Project Accountability Activities Overview

1. ECB Project Accountability Activities Overview Andrea Stewart ECB Communications Manager www.ecbproject.org

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. There are materials available to the humanitarian community

7. 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 • how the project was developed • how to adapt the materials

8. View and Download all the materials online www.ecbproject.org/goodenoughguide

9. 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)

10. 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

11. THANK YOU Andrea Stewart, ECB Communications Manager andrea.stewart@co.care.org VISIT: www.ecbproject.org