The Sphere and HAP representatives worked closely with three groups to plan activities for the two-month intervention:
- the Accountability and Learning Working Group (ALWG), an initiative tasked with promoting organisational and institutional ‘good practice’ on Accountability and Learning across the Nargis response. The ALWG will primarily focuses on strengthening systems of downward accountability (i.e. to the target group) and supporting rapid and accessible learning opportunities from field realities to allow evidence-based programming.
- the Local Resource Centre (LRC), a joint initiative of the Capacity Building Initiative, Burnet Institute, The Alliance, World Concern, Oxfam and Save the Children. The Local Resource Centre works to assist MNGO’s and CSO’s with capacity building through training and technical advice. Three meetings took place with the LRC.
- Paung Ku, a coalition of MNGO’s and INGO’s was also consulted to determine learning needs and explore contextually appropriate approaches in the Myanmar context.
Based on initial discussions, the Sphere and HAP team created a Plan of Engagement and list of potential support activities
Achievements of project activities
1. Assessment of the priority needs for support on the use of Sphere, and the HAP standard where appropriate:
The initial assessment of needs had been done by the previous Sphere/HAP representatives. However, continuous regular meetings were held (weekly) with the Accountability Learning Working Group (ALWG) to ensure that the needs and requests of the organisations were met as far as possible concerning the implementation of the Sphere standards. Links were made with as many organisations and individuals as possible by attending cluster meetings and other coordination meetings to discuss support needs.
2. Advocacy and briefings on Sphere and HAP to encourage understanding and acceptance of their use:
Three briefings on Quality and Accountability were conducted jointly by Sphere and HAP staff the week of 21 July; for 3 groups of participants (Inter-agency = 22 participants, ACT partners = 40 participants and local training/support organisations = 12 participants).
3. Representation of Sphere in coordination meetings, promoting the significance and relevance of the Sphere standards:
Attended several meetings, giving brief presentations and raising the profile of Sphere and HAP and offering further support in terms of training, information and handbooks:
o several cluster meetings: Health, WASH, Shelter, Protection
o an INGO coordination meeting
o a Cluster leads meeting
4. Identifying and delivering support to agencies to meet Sphere standards:
Introductory one-day Sphere training was designed to respond to the demand for a short training. A total of 346 participants received this Sphere training, of which 143 attended training in the Delta. Responding to requests for a shorter Sphere training, a half-day training was given to 107 participants. Twelve participants attended a Sphere Training of Trainers course (ToT) and sixteen attended a one-day field based Sphere training. Efforts were made to include a wide-range of participants, including local organisations and government personnel. Further details of the participants for these training are in the table and graph below; although please note, it is not very easy to categorise participants – all the faith-based organisations are local organisations. Staff from the Red Cross movement, and local training organisations such as the Capacity Building Initiative are categorised as “other”.  | An exercise going through the technical standards during one of the Sphere trainings in Yangon |
Although all these trainings were primarily Sphere trainings as requested, links were made with other quality and accountability initiatives, such as HAP, and when there was a HAP staff member present more information was included on HAP. Attempts were made to make links with the Education cluster to do a joint Sphere/Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), but this was not possible for various reasons, but two education staff attended the Sphere trainings and hope to do more training for the Education cluster in the future.
The participants who attended the ToT were then encouraged to do further Sphere training for their own organisations and wider audience. Several ToT participants were given further support enabling them to assist with the training held in the Delta and other trainings; coaching them with support to continue more training themselves.
Many of the trainings (particularly the earlier trainings) were conducted in English with translations; but several trainings were conducted (including some in the Delta) in Myanmar language (with support and extra explanations with translations from English) – by the Sphere ToT group.
There is a clear need for more support to agencies on implementing and mainstreaming Sphere into their interventions and using Sphere to measure their performance. One field-based Sphere training was done in the Delta (for CARE staff) working through how Sphere can be used for planning, implementing and monitoring a Water/Sanitation/Hygiene Promotion programme.
All the participants who attended the one-day sphere trainings completed an evaluation on how they felt about the training, including: whether the objectives were achieved, the standard of facilitation, the relevance of the training to their work and suggestions for future trainings. Generally these evaluations gave positive feedback. There were numerous requests for more training. All the evaluation forms were compiled and added to a short report on the content of the training with the main messages and lists of participants and were sent back to all the participants (where possible).
Input was given into the ToR for the Inter-agency Real Time evaluation to ensure that accountability indicators were considered. Attempts were also made to input into the Periodic review to make links with the Sphere standards and indicators.
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