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Special discounts available for bulk orders from humanitarian, non-profit organisations. Contact Practical Action Publishing, email: publishinginfo@practicalaction.org.uk for more details. 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 'good enough' approach emphasises simple and practical solutions and encourages the user to choose tools that are safe, quick, and easy to implement. This pocket guide presents some tried and tested 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, NGOs, and inter-agency initiatives, including Sphere, ALNAP, HAP International, and People In Aid. The Good Enough Guide was developed by the Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB). The ECB is a collaborative effort by CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, the International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Oxfam GB, Save the Children, and World Vision International.
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The Guide is good enough for me, as it demystifies the concept of impact and puts people at the heart of the matter. It is to be hoped that the book not only becomes widely available for fieldworkers in NGOs, UN agencies, and donor offices but that it is incorporated into training materials and courses and made available in local languages. This could be the start of a ‘good enough movement’ which on the one hand might make lasting improvements to the ways in which agencies are implementing projects and on the other hand might provide a convincing argument to persuade donors to reduce their demands for costly, time-consuming, hard-data impact measurement. Susanne E. Frueh, Former Chief of Evaluation of OCHA, Former Chair of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition Reviewed for Development in Practice, Volume 18, Number 2, April 2008
CONTENTS
Preface: the Basic Elements of Accountability and Impact Measurement
What is...? Some definitions
Why and how to use the Good Enough Guide
Section 1 Involve people at every stage
Section 2 Profile the people affected by the emergency
Section 3 Identify the changes people want to see
Section 4 Track changes and make feedback a two-way process
Section 5 Use feedback to improve project impact
Section 6 Tools
Using the good enough tools
List of tools
Tool 1 How to introduce your agency: a need-to-know checklist
Tool 2 How accountable are you? Checking public information
Tool 3 How to involve people throughout the project
Tool 4 How to profile the affected community and assess initial needs
Tool 5 How to conduct an individual interview
Tool 6 How to conduct a focus group
Tool 7 How to decide whether to do a survey
Tool 8 How to assess child protection needs
Tool 9 How to observe
Tool 10 How to start using indicators
Tool 11 How to hold a lessons-learned meeting
Tool 12 How to set up a complaints and response mechanism
Tool 13 How to give a verbal report
Tool 14 How to say goodbye
Section 7 Other accountability initiatives - ALNAP, HAP International, People In Aid and Sphere
Section 8 Sources, further information and abbreviations
OTHER LANGUAGES
Spanish
Arabic
French
ALSO AVAILABLE
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