Monitoring
Accountability through monitoring
Joining HAP is more than a statement of intent or an aspiration: it is an organizational commitment to monitoring progress on accountability and quality management.
Monitoring for HAP members can take one of three forms: self-monitoring, external monitoring by the HAP Secretariat and peer monitoring.
Self-monitoring
Each year, HAP’s Full Members report on what they have done to implement their Accountability Work Plan in the previous year. Accountability Work Plans set out specific objectives and targets for promoting compliance with the HAP Accountability Principles in an organization.
External monitoring
Occasionally, the HAP Secretariat works with member agencies to monitor their progress on accountability. For example, in December 2005, HAP visited Aceh, Indonesia, to look at how member were applying the HAP Principles in their post-Tsunami reconstruction programs.
Peer monitoring
HAP can also facilitate peer monitoring in which agencies review each other’s progress on implementing commitments to accountability and quality management.
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HAP staff visit a Save the Children project in Laputta, Myanmar in March 2009
"If you are just very transparent to them [the community] and give them a clear picture about what the project does and what is going on then they will just accept and be grateful...If you just tell them the truth and what you have at that time in hand. If what you have is little just put in front of them, tell them "I have just this much of things and I need only five people [to be chosen for the beneficiary list] so you select your own people."
Anna-Maria Aliaro lives in Korr, North Kenya, where Tearfund ran a programme from June 2006 to October 2007 in response to the drought.
