Impact Measurement and Accountability: The Good Enough Guide

Basic information

  • Type: Self-Assessment
  • Year established: 2005
  • Status: Active
  • Thematic area: Humanitarian / emergency relief
  • Summary: The Good Enough Guide develops participatory tools to assess humanitarian reponses in all its stages based on the basic elements of accountability and impact measurement. Its goal is to improve the speed, quality, and effectiveness with which the humanitarian community works. Any organisation working on humanitarian and emergency relief can use this guide. The ECB receives substantial funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Areas addressed

  • Principles or standards: Principles-based
  • Communications / advocacy / fundraising:
    • Fundraising standards
  • Beneficiary / client / supporter participation:
    • General commitment to beneficiary participation
    • In all project cycle stages
    • In evaluation (ex post)
    • In strategic planning
  • Monitoring and Evaluation:
    • General commitment to evaluation
    • Commitment to integrate learning in future
    • Dissemination of evaluations

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Participation

  • Reasons for participation
    • Enhancing credibility, quality or reputation

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Compliance

  • Evidence base: Field/site
  • Description of monitoring mechanism: The ECB provides self-assessment tools.
  • Has sanctioning mechanism: No

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Similar initiatives

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP), Group URD, Sphere Project

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