1. ACCOUNTABILITY TO AFFECTED
PEOPLE
HOW IT CAN IMPROVE
C O O R D I N AT I O N
K AT E B U R N S – O C H A
ALNAP
5 MARCH 2013

2. AAP OVERVIEW
1. IASC Commitments
2. OCHA efforts on AAP
3. Focus on information for coordination
4. Your views
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3. IASC TRANSFORMATIVE AGENDA
"The IASC Principals are committed to
the ultimate objective of accountability
to beneficiaries by ensuring that the
humanitarian response delivers life-
saving assistance to those in need as
the result of effective and timely
decision-making and planning.”
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4. IASC COMMITMENTS
1. Leadership and Governance
2. Transparency
3. Feedback and Complaints
4. Participation
5. Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
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5. UNDERSTANDING AAP
• Accountability is a legal, practical and moral
obligation for humanitarians
• Taking account of others ideas (needs assessment)
• Accounting for our actions (monitoring &
evaluation)
• All segments: women, girls, boys, men of all ages,
disabled etc.
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6. Information improves coordination
AAP can help !!!
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7. WHAT DO WE KNOW?
• 65% were not consulted
• 55% could not complain
• 70% were not asked
about inputs
Data not disaggregated by sex, age or diversity Survey Page 48
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8. COORDINATION REQUIRES INFORMATION:
- 3Ws (Who, What, Where)
- Quantitative outputs (How many x)
- Mainly collected by clusters
- Government and other agencies
contribute
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9. BEFORE IT GETS TO OCHA, INFORMATION...
• Gets filtered through several layers
• Possibility of bias
• Is often about agency output
• May not include ALL voices
• May not be reality on the ground
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10. COORDINATION IS.....
“Humanitarian coordination seeks to
improve the effectiveness of humanitarian
response by ensuring greater
predictability, accountability and
partnership”
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11. HOW CAN AAP PRINCIPLES HELP?
• System wide leadership by the IASC
• Increased transparency by all
• Feedback/reporting: to OCHA
• Feedback information: to people
• Participation year round
• AAP throughout the Programme Cycle
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12. RISKS AND CHALLENGES
• Doing too much...?
• Putting pressure on clusters...?
• Not broke, don’t fix...?
• Seen as not trusting clusters? Policing?
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13. YOUR VIEWS PLEASE....
How can AAP principles help us to
better coordinate, so that a more
effective humanitarian response is
planned, implemented, monitored and
evaluated?
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