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Case study

Simulating the Worst to Prepare the Best: A study of humanitarian simulations and their benefits

17/05/2013

3 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Simulations are being used widely across the humanitarian sector, in a variety of contexts and involve numerous stakeholders. The sector is placing increasing value on simulations as important staff capacity, preparedness and relationship building exercises. The Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project Simulating the worst to prepare the best case study, addresses the questions of ‘What […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Shelter Accountability Resources: A guide to improving accountability to disaster-affected populations during the implementation of humanitarian shelter programmes

01/04/2013

1 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English

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Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project agencies, led by CARE, have developed the Shelter Accountability Resources for project managers and decision-makers in humanitarian shelter programs. As a guide it is also intended to be useful for Shelter Cluster coordinators, and other staff who would like to monitor the accountability of particular projects and programs. The tools […]

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Book

Toward Resilience: A guide to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

03/01/2013

3 documents

194 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organisations working with people whose live and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change. The guide provides essential introductory information, principals of effective practice, guidelines for action in a range […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

What We Know About Collaboration: The ECB country consortium experience

31/07/2012

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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What We Know About Collaboration: the ECB Country Consortium Experience outlines how organizations can work better together. It can be used as a reference for developing a consortium or for strengthening an existing collaboration among emergency response agencies and other key partners. The resource is designed for staff involved in humanitarian and emergency work, and […]

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Case study

Playing With Reality: Emergency Capacity Building Project simulations case study

20/06/2012

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project simulation case study focuses on the lessons learnt from implementing the ECB Project multi-agency simulations at the national level between April 2010 and March 2012, using the ECB Simulations Administrators Guide. Related materials: Simulating the Worst to Prepare the Best: A study of humanitarian simulations and their benefits

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Guidelines and toolkits

Building Trust in Diverse Teams: A concise facilitation handbook

13/04/2011

3 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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Humanitarian practitioners identify trust in emergency teams as one of the most important factors in launching timely and effective emergency responses. The Building Trust Toolkit can be used throughout the cycle of an emergency response and features: a Trust Index, to assess and measure trust within diverse teams and 10 trust-building tools that can be selected […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Guidelines for Conducting Joint Evaluations of Humanitarian Action

01/04/2011

3 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

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A joint evaluation is when different agencies work together to evaluate and review their response to an emergency. This helps agencies increase accountability and transparency, to learn from one another, and to coordinate future responses. Joint evaluations also provide a place where knowledge, resources and tools can be shared among peer agencies and long-term cooperative […]

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Technical briefing

Key Elements of Accountability For Emergency Capacity Building Project Agencies

01/01/2010

3 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project’s overall objective is to improve the speed, quality and effectiveness of the humanitarian sector’s ability to save lives, protect livelihoods and defend the rights of disaster-vulnerable communities. The ECB Project’s Accountability and Impact Measurement (AIM) advisors developed The Key Elements of Accountability to use as the impetus for a […]

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Book

Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The good enough guide

09/02/2007

13 documents

80 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bangla, Burmese, Chinese, Dari, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Urdu

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What difference are we making? How do we know? The Good Enough Guide helps busy field workers to address these questions. It offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations and contains a variety of tools on needs assessment and profiling. Its […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Emergency Simulations: Administrator’s guide

01/01/2007

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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By simulating a disaster humanitarian staff can practice responding to an emergency and collaborating with diverse colleagues in an intense emergency context. The Emergency Capacity Building Project produced this guide to coordinating both multi-and single-agency simulations, which includes a methodology that enables staff to test (self-assess) their performance. This is a simple, adaptable simulation package enabling field teams to test […]

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