As a manager, I would like to see one document instead of two documents. Maybe in the future, the HAP Standard, ECB's Good Enough Guide, the Sphere Handbook, and the People In Aid Code will all be linked together.

Abdul Wahed
Emergency Response & Preparedness Coordinator (ERPC)
CARE Bangladesh

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Who we work with

	The Good Enough Guide in French and Accountability framework presented at the ALNAP Biannual Meeting in Senegal in December 2007 Discussions ongoing about synergies between ECB Evaluation database and ALNAP database ECB paper “What We Know About Joint Evaluations of Humanitarian Action: Learning from NGO Experiences” published on the ALNAP website Extensive ECB contribution to the ALNAP review of Joint Evaluations published in the 2008 Review of Humanitarian Action. See also UNICEF below for RTE initiative.
	Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre experts worked with ECB's Advisers during ECB's DRR & Climate Change conference June 8-12, 2009 in Bellagio, Italy.
	Participated in the National Staff Development Program
	Standing team members from World Vision and CARE engaged with the UK’s Disasters and Emergencies Committee (DEC) a fundraising alliance of 14 NGOs to help design their new accountability framework. This ensured that approaches were compatible and that the donor had a practical approach that fitted well with both ECB and Humanitarian Accountability Partnership approaches to accountability. Currently the 14 largest humanitarian organizations in the UK are being measured against this framework.
	Funding ECB agencies to develop supporting Communications tools and materials that will raise awareness of The Good Enough Guide to Accountability and Impact Measurement. Project led by Oxfam GB and World Vision International in 2009-2010. Click here for more details about the launch of this project.
	ECB supported formation of Emergency Personnel Network (EPN) regional networks in Africa and Asia ECB Simulation used at joint EPN/IAWG March 2008 event ECB Trust Toolkit to be presented at EPN Istanbul in May
	Feinstein academic experts worked with ECB's Advisers during ECB's DRR & Climate Change conference June 8-12, 2009 in Bellagio, Italy.
	Participated in the National Staff Development Program
	HAP represented on editorial board for the Good Enough Guide Supported Standing Team deployment to Peru HAP-I presentation part of Nairobi event Good Enough Guide tools reproduced in the Guide to the HAP Standard
	HPN published ECB research on Staff Turnover as an HPN network paper
InterAgency Working Group	Held Good Enough Guide Training in August 2007, and again in early 2008 following Kenya crisis Hosted Emergency Personnel Network and used ECB Simulation
	ECB Adviser formed and co-chairs Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group
LACRO	Good Enough Guide and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) work presented in March, 2008, during the LACRO DRR workshop with CRS and CRS partner staff.
	Provided Elluminate tool for National Staff Development
	Nethope have been a major implementation and sustainability partner for the ECB Project. See the sections above for further details.
	People In Aid have been a major implementation and sustainability partner for the ECB Project. See the sections above for further details.
	CARE shared the NSD design at a PHREE-Way meeting. They expressed interest in participating in National Staff Development (NSD) pilot and offered to design the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)piece of the curriculum. One PHREE-Way member participated in the Thailand NSD training ECB DRR publications incorporated into Phree-Way Resources library
Q&A Initiatives	ECB represented at regular meetings of Quality and Accountability Initiatives. This has been as both observer and in providing an operational agency voice in their deliberations.
Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response	Save the Children, CARE and Oxfam participating in an SCHR Peer Review, which will adapt and field test ECB Accountability Framework. ECB Trust Toolkit presented by Oxfam CEO at Principals meeting, Oxford, June 2008.
	Sphere standards referenced and promoted in ECB publications and tools. Various Good Enough Guide and Sphere trainings run concurrently. ECB participating in Sphere standards revision process in 2009
	UNDP experts worked with ECB's Advisers during ECB's DRR & Climate Change conference June 8-12, 2009 in Bellagio, Italy.
	Oxfam and Care advisors joined an UNICEF-ALNAP RTE grouping (supported by the UNICEF Evaluation Office) and involving a cross-agency Working Group. Initial research on RTE methodologies and approaches has been completed by Channel Research, and the ALNAP secretariat has taken on the process of developing and finalizing an RTE guide. ECB Simulations tool shared with UNICEF preparedness team, and ECB invited to join future UNICEF simulations as participant observer. Together with Save the Children as co-leads of Education Cluster, using Surge Capacity report to inform mapping of Education surge capacity.
UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction	Phase I: Important partner of ECB3 DRR initiative. Disseminated ECB3 pilot country and Overview reports
	Phase I: Consulted in development of ECB shared assessment tool – will form part of OCHA-led mapping exercise for humanitarian assessment
	Provided logistical support to National Staff Development Program ECB involved in peer review of WFP evaluation function

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