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.
"I welcome HAP's own efforts to ensure continuous improvements and lesson learning by launching a review of the Standard later this year.
In my view, with minor tweaks, it could become the basis for improving the management practices of development, rehabilitation, environmental and human rights agencies too. "
My own conviction that we must improve our record of disaster risk reduction would also be well served if this were to happen. "
Gareth Thomas - UK Under Secretary of State for International Development - 28 May 2008
