Haiti Learning and Accountability Portal
If you have anything you would like to upload to this page please send it to j.harris@alnap.org
The scale of the devastation caused by the Haiti earthquake in January 2010 has resulted in massive relief and recovery operations being undertaken by several ALNAP members.
This page provides a shared platform for a structured strategic overview of ongoing and planned learning and accountability efforts by agencies operating in Haiti. The site aims to encourage complementarity amongst agencies undertaking such work, through sharing of approaches, contacts, key resources and evaluation plans.
The portal is intended to function alongside the operational information-management site hosted by One Response. The Haiti One Response site, is being used by field staff for real time knowledge sharing and practical resources with a shorter shelf-life, whilst the ALNAP Portal provides an overall strategic overview.
It is our hope that these complementary initiatives will contribute to more informed, coordinated efforts to assessing and improving performance in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake.
The ALNAP forum is also available for all ALNAP Full and Observer members, as an online space to share experiences, discussion and useful information about the ongoing efforts.
Current initiatives
Evaluations
Inter-Agency, Real Time Evaluation - OCHA
Start date - Feb 2010
Key Contacts - Claude Hilfiker, Senior Evaluation Officer, OCHA hilfiker@un.org
The ALNAP secretariat is involved in this initiative including serving on the working group, alnap@alnap.org
Key Documents - Call for Expression of Interest
Real Time Evaluation - Oxfam
Start date - Feb 2010
Key Contact - Dr Vivien Walden, Global Humanitarian MEL Adviser, Oxfam GB vwalden@oxfam.org.uk
Real Time Evaluation - Disaster Emergency Committee
To cover all 13 DEC Member Agency programmes. TOR will be posted on this site in March.
Start date - May 2010
Contact: Annie Devonport, adevonport@dec.org.uk (please do not send CVs in advance of the TOR posting)
Operational Support Missions
Interaction-ICVA NGO Coordination Cell - For more details contact Manisha Thomas at ICVA manisha@icva.ch or Linda Poteat at Interaction lpoteat@interaction.org.
Contact tel. in Haiti- +(509) 3485-7374
Disaster Response Support Service Bioforce and RedR have launched their Disaster Response Support Service in Haiti with a joint 2 week assessment from Feb 2nd to determine priority learning and capacity building needs in the worst affected areas. Immediately after this assessment, it is hoped a programme of ‘on the job’ learning/training activities will be set up for the benefit of the actors of the emergency response. The team are working to ensure a joined up approach and to share resources wherever possible. They will be linking in with the newly formed Interaction/ICVA coordination cell, Cluster Co-ordinators and any other co-ordination mechanisms on the ground.
Contact- Cheryl.McDonald@redr.org.uk
Quality and Accountability Support Team The ACT Alliance is deploying a Quality and Accountability Support Team in close collaboration with the secretariats of the The Sphere Project and the Humanitarian Accounatbility Partnership. The mission will be led by experienced Sphere trainer Anne Lloyd and HAP trainer Coleen Heemskerk for a 3 week period beginning February 9th. The overall aims of the Q&A Support Team deployment are to support ACT Alliance staff in Haiti in their efforts to strengthen the humanitarian accountability and quality of the humanitarian response in Haiti, and to assess the issues and challenges to quality and accountability as part of the overall humanitarian response in order to lay the groundwork for a longer deployment that will commence from March 2010. They will be seeking to link up with and contribute to other Q&A initiatives in Haiti. HAP in Haiti website
Contact- Coleen can be reached at cheemskerk@hapinternational.org and Anne can be reached at anne@alloyd.co.uk
Information mechanisms
Ushahidi Haiti The Ushahidi Crisis Map of Haiti represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date crisis map available to the humanitarian community. The information here is mapped in near real time and gathered from reports coming from inside Haiti via SMS, Web, Email, Radio, Phone, Twitter, Facebook, Television, List-serves, Live streams, Situation Reports.
Communications for Disaster-Affected Populations (CDAC) in Haiti CDAC’s central objective is that its members provide a coordinated service to enable humanitarian operations to get life-saving information to populations and to channel their voices back to the providers of assistance
Thomson Emergency Information Service One of the CDAC members, Thomson Reuters Foundation, has put in place first-of-its-kind Emergency Information Service (EIS) in Haiti for disaster-affected population.
People in Aid Resource Sheet A collection of key HR information and tools for agencies deploying staff in Haiti, brought together in a single resource sheet.
Planned initiatives
If you have any information on any evaluations of humanitarian action or other learning and accountability initiatives, please contact Josh Harris, Communications Officer, ALNAP- j.harris@alnap.org
Previous evaluations and reports
The following evaluations have been selected from the Evaluative Reports Database for their potential value for agencies responding in Haiti.
Haiti evaluations
Post-earthquake evaluations
Reports
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