Learning Session OCHA Wednesday 26 August 2020 The learning session will Provide an overview of accountability to affected people AAP Elaborate on global commitments and standards relating to AAP ID: 920696
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OPERATIONALIZING ACCOUNTABILITY TO AFFECTED PEOPLELearning Session
OCHA
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Slide2The learning session will:
Provide an overview of accountability to affected people (AAP)
Elaborate on global commitments and standards relating to AAP
Highlight what you can expect from OCHA
Highlight what you should expect in the HPC
Highlight response–wide performance on AAP
Slide3What is AAP?
An active commitment by humanitarian actors and organizations to use power responsibly by taking account of, giving account to and being held to account by the people they seek to assist [IASC].
Giving Account - Providing information to affected communities about humanitarian agencies’ activities;
Taking Account - Ensuring humanitarian agencies’ decisions are informed by the views of affected communities; and
Being held to Account - Enabling affected communities to assess and comment on agencies’ performance, including on sensitive matters.
Slide4International Commitments and Standards
Systematic accountability is essential to meeting organizational and collective commitments as outlined by the Inter-agency Standing Committee (IASC), the Grand Bargain Participation Revolution, and the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS).
Country level – IASC Standard HCT Terms of Reference and Compact
Under these commitments and standards, international aid agencies are expected to strengthen coordinated and harmonized community engagement practices for more effective and accountable humanitarian action.
Slide5Slide6What to expect from OCHA?
Coordination
Information management
Policy
Advocacy
Humanitarian financing
Slide7What to expect in the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC)?
Needs assessment and analysis
Planning
Resource mobilization
Implementation and monitoring
Evaluation and learning
Slide8AAP Performance
There is not yet an agreed global framework for measuring our collective AAP performance at the country level (only at the agency level - CHS).
OCHA, IOM, UNICEF, UNHCR, WFP, WHO measured against:
% HRPs include a joint approach to accountability, communication and feedback systems and narrative reporting on the effectiveness of the planned joint approach
% of IASC “Scale-Up” activated responses that has a framework for common, system-wide community engagement and feedback in place within three months from activation which informs response decision-making and course correction of the humanitarian response at a country level.
Slide9AAP Performance
HRP (Published Year)
2018
2019
2020
2021
HRPs include a joint approach to accountability, communication and feedback systems and narrative reporting on the effectiveness of the planned joint approach
TARGET
25%
30%
40%
50%
ACHIEVED
47%
60%
90%
IMPROVEMENT 28%50% % of IASC “Scale-Up” activated responses that has a framework for common, system-wide community engagement and feedback in place within three months from activation which informs response decision-making and course correction of the humanitarian response at a country level.TARGET40%60%80%100%ACHIEVED 50%N/A100%OngoingIMPROVEMENT N/AN/A
Slide10Resources
For OCHA:
https://unitednations.sharepoint.com/sites/ochaaap
For partners:
https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/results-group-2-accountability-and-inclusion
Slide11More resources
IASC Results Group 2 (Accountability and Inclusion):
https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/results-group-2-accountability-and-inclusion
IASC Commitments on AAP and PSEA:
https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/accountability-affected-populations-including-protection-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse/documents-61
IASC Emergency Directors Group (EDG) Preliminary Guidance Note:
https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/system/files/edg_-aap_protection_guidance_note_2016.pdf
CDAC Network
http://www.cdacnetwork.org/
Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS):
https://corehumanitarianstandard.org/the-standard
Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:
http://www.pseataskforce.org/