Welcome to day 2!

Name the five key elements of accountability, as defined by ECB.

- Leadership- Transparency- Feedback and complaints- Participation- Design, monitoring and evaluation

Name the three key aims of working in a cluster.

- Coordination- Prevent gaps - Prevent overlaps

Why should we no longer consider accountability in terms of agencies alone.

- We are all working as a team (yes, even the UN!).

- For the team to be accountable, it is not enough for each member to be accountable on its own.

Who is the IASC? Where does it sit in relation to clusters?

Inter-Agency Standing Committee, which supervises the clusters globally

What does the IASC Operational Framework attempt to clarify.

Clarity on the roles and responsibilities, with respect to accountability to affected populations, of: - HC- HCT- Clusters- Individual agences

The IASC has recently formed a Task Force on AAP. How does it link to ECB?

Several AIM Advisors sit on the IASC Task Force (eg Madara, Angela)

To date, ECB has provided the majority of piloting for the Operational Framework

In December 2011, the IASC made several commitments to AAP. Name them.

- Leadership- Transparency- Feedback and complaints- Participation- Design, monitoring and evaluation

How would you measure progress against these commitments?

A tool exists, developed by FAO, purely to measure if an agency is meeting these commitments.

How would you monitor the performance of the cluster?

With difficulty.

With the IASC Cluster Performance Monitoring tool

In additional to vertical accountabilities (donors and communities), working in clusters also implies horizontal accountabilities, to peer agencies. These can be different to the more traditional accountabilities that we are used to dealing with.

What are the extra implied responsibilities and of whom?