Accountability – Key Elements/Core Understanding For ECB Project Agencies

The ECB AIM advisors developed this paper to use as the central document and impetus for a shared understanding of the key elements/core understanding for accountability work that we undertake together, under the auspices of the Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project. By agreeing on key elements and indicators to establish a baseline for measuring our accountability we are also agreeing what will be the central tenets to all work that agencies undertake together to improve or increase accountability in our humanitarian responses: such as ECB Standing Team deployments, representation work, support to consortia etc. The paper has already informed the baseline assessment of agency capacity to deliver programmes that are accountable to beneficiaries. We plan to use the paper to serve as a basis for defining capacity building areas for the ECB agencies and the ECB consortia with targets relevant to each context.