Countries
Somalia Humanitarian crisis fact sheet
Since the beginning of 2007, violence due to the conflict has killed at least 18,000 civilians. Read more...
Allan Lavell: “The cause of the disaster in Haiti is social”
Allan Lavell is one of the world's top experts on urban and regional planning, and specializes in risk reduction and disaster prevention. He heads the development of DARA's Risk Reduction Index (RRI), a key project in the Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative (DRRI [...] Read more...
European Commission evaluation: protection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
DARA has been commissioned by ECHO (the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office) to carry out the "evaluation of ECHO’s action in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)". The evaluation purpose is twofold. It will look at the relevance, coordination, [...] Read more...
Interview with Jock Baker: Zimbabwe 
Interview with Jock Baker, Program Quality & Accountability Coordinator at CARE International Read more...
Colombia HRI 2010: “Donors should engage with new government on protection and humanitarian needs”
As the country's presidency changes hands, DARA's HRI 2010 mission to Colombia finds that government efforts to deny the existence of an armed conflict have condemned millions of victims to invisibility and produced resignation within the donor and humanitarian [...] Read more...
Colombia – HRI 2010 Mission
An invisible long-running crisis Colombia has suffered a 40-year long internal conflict, the longest in Latin American history and one of the longest running in the world. Throughout the four decades the characteristics of the crisis have remained the same: land [...] Read more...
Afghanistan – HRI 2010 Mission
Afghan aid risks militarisation In Afghanistan, humanitarian crises stem from chronic vulnerabilities whose origins are found in more than 30 years of war and conflict, poor governance, recurrent natural disasters and critically low levels of social and economic [...] Read more...
Pakistan – HRI 2010 Mission
DARA´s Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) team visited Pakistan from March 3-12 and collected information on overall donor response to the displacement crisis. It is the second time that DARA sends a team in Pakistan. While in 2007 the organization analyzed donor [...] Read more...
Somalia – HRI 2010 Mission
Executive Summary: Humanitarian needs unmet as counter-terrorism focus limits response In 2009 Somalia, described in the Humanitarian Response Index 2008 as “possibly the world’s most extreme failed state”, faced its worst humanitarian crisis in years [...] Read more...
The Philippines – HRI 2010 Mission
HRI mission to the Philippines: The inequality of humanitarian aid In its recent Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) mission to the Philippines, DARA has found that while the international community mobilized in response to tropical storm Ketsana and typhoon Parma [...] Read more...