Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies
Subtitle
The Good Enough Guide
SummaryText
This guide was developed by the Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB), a collaborative effort by CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, the International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Oxfam GB, Save the Children, and World Vision International. It offers a set of guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations. According to the publisher: "This pocket guide presents... methods for putting impact measurement and accountability into practice throughout the life of a project. It is aimed at humanitarian practitioners, project officers and managers with some experience in the field, and draws on the work of field staff, [non-governmental organisations] NGOs, and inter-agency initiatives..."
The guide contains:
Please note: Special discounts are available for bulk orders from humanitarian, non-profit organisations. Contact Oxfam Publishing, publish@oxfam.org.uk for more details.
The guide contains:
- Preface: the Basic Elements of Accountability and Impact Measurement
- What is...? Some definitions
- Why and how to use the Good Enough Guide
- Involve people at every stage
- Profile the people affected by the emergency
- Identify the changes people want to see
- Track changes and make feedback a two-way process
- Use feedback to improve project impact
- Tools:
- How to introduce your agency: a need-to-know checklist
- How accountable are you? Checking public information
- How to involve people throughout the project
- How to profile the affected community and assess initial needs
- How to conduct an individual interview
- How to conduct a focus group
- How to decide whether to do a survey
- How to assess child protection needs
- How to observe
- How to start using indicators
- How to hold a lessons-learned meeting
- How to set up a complaints and response mechanism
- How to give a verbal report
- How to say goodbye
- Other accountability initiatives
- Sources, further information and abbreviations
Please note: Special discounts are available for bulk orders from humanitarian, non-profit organisations. Contact Oxfam Publishing, publish@oxfam.org.uk for more details.
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Publication Date
Number of Pages
74, plus a CD-ROM
Source
Email from from Jennie Morant to The Communication Initiative on May 1 2007 and January 15 2008, and Oxfam Publications website on July 14 2009.
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