The Huffington Post: When Media Show Starving Children, Aid is Too Late
Source: Huffington Post Canada Today DARA launched the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) 2011 , a report that assesses how well the world's main donor governments support the response to disasters and conflicts. It's the fifth year we've done this, and the [...] Read more...
Thursday 8 March 2012
AlertNet: Aid sector insensitive to gender needs – report
Source: AlertNet Three times as many women lost their lives in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami - often because they had never been taught how to swimor climb trees like their husbands, sons and brothers. Girls in refugee camps are often the last to be fed [...] Read more...
Thursday 8 March 2012
IRIN News: Aid Policy- Big is not always best among the donors
Source: IRIN News Every year for the past five years, the Madrid-based organization, DARA International, has tracked the major international aid donors and ranked them according to how well the apply a set of agreed principles related to effectiveness and [...] Read more...
Thursday 8 March 2012
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