SERVICES: National Platforms
Central African Republic
Context: In 2015, a Senior Transformative Agenda Implementation Team mission report recommended strengthening AAP and in July 2016 OCHA established a working group. In 2019, in order to reinforce accountability towards affected people in CAR, the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) created an Inter-Agency Collective Service project (IACS) to operationalise accountability to affected people by supporting organisations working at the frontlines of the response.
The platform became active in June 2019 as a working Group on Accountability to Affected People (AAP WG) to develop a collective approach for IACS. The Inter-Agency Collective service include a range of accountability mechanism such as Information and feedback centers in IDP’s Camps and a humanitarian Hotline managed by DRC( Danish Refugees Council).As part of this joint effort, Ground Truth Solutions (GTS) is working with UNICEF ,OCHA and the International Organisation for Migration's (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) data collection teams to conduct micro-surveys of people’s perceptions that can help guide the response, measure impact and ensure that the views of affected people are regularly considered and acted upon. A GTS community perception mission deployed in August 2019 to run two data collection pilots. It will further support the HRP workshop (scheduled on 1 October) to develop and feed outcome level indicators for the 2020 HRP.
The goal is that by the end of April 2020, accountability to affected people will have become a central element in designing and tracking humanitarian action in CAR.
Government links: Links with the government are being established and it will play a significant role in the establishment of IFC.
Leads/Chairs/Co-Chairs: UNICEF and OCHA. The AAP WG reports to the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG).
Contact: Franklin Moliba-Sese fmoliba@unicef.org.
National and international actors involved: The AAP WG has been revamped since June 2019 with monthly meetings. For Members see the ToR attached.
Donors: UNICEF received CCEI funding from Sida and Dfid. In addition there is ongoing funding support to the UNICEF AAP project, the S4D project (for ETC cluster), Ligne Verte (DRC) and the MSNA (REACH) by the CAR Humanitarian Fund with a key focus on AAP (indicators, activities, establishments of collective CFM).
Opportunities and challenges: Staff turnover and recruitment challenges in CAR continues to hamper the speed with which the collective service has been able to become fully functioning.
