Everyone loved the ECB simulations - it has been the best tool to get staff buy in, make contingency planning real, very inclusive, action oriented and tangible, and people really maintained commitment to continue working on identified gaps - it has been a great success."

Sanda Richtmann
Manager Emergency Response
CRS Europe/Middle East

The uniqueness of ECB for World Vision is that it provides a five year timeframe to demonstrate that intentional collaboration with other agencies and stakeholders on a day-to-day basis, particularly at the field level, enables us to address more effectively issues of disaster preparedness and response.

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Objective 2: the agency

The second objective of ECB Phase II focuses on the six IWG agencies themselves--CARE, CRS, Mercy Corps, Oxfam GB, Save the Children, and World Vision--to increase the speed, quality, and effectiveness of emergency preparedness and response mechanisms within and across the IWG agencies.

These six international agencies have developed formal plans for integrating ECB tools and practices within their own global systems, policies and practices. Phase II of the ECB Project will result in measurable improvements in organizational capacity of participating agencies to support their field programs in emergency preparedness and response. In applying and adapting pragmatic, field-friendly tools, agencies will:

define and monitor qualitative measures of country office performance in emergencies;
adopt industry standards and pragmatic tools into agency emergency policies, systems and procedures;
secure commitment of agency leadership in making lasting policy changes;
leverage agency contributions, such as in-staff training;
set precendents for increased agency funding levels for emergency capacity building;
integrate lessons learned more deliberately into emergency preparedness and response.

Ultimately, agency-wide support for field staff and operations will ensure that agencies perform more effectively to save lives and to respond quickly when emergencies occur.

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