Countries
Indonesia – HRI 2010 Mission
HRI Indonesia mission points to Tsunami lessons missing from 2009 earthquakes' response DARA’s Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) 2010 mission to Indonesia has found that the international donor response to last year’s two earthquakes has been extremely uneven [...] Read more...
Central African Republic – HRI 2010 Mission
Mission to the CAR marks the beginning of the fourth edition of the Humanitarian Response Index DARA has launched its HRI 2010 field missions by sending a team on a pilot exercise to the Central African Republic (CAR). The pilot mission, which ran from 18th [...] Read more...
Yemen – HRI 2010 Mission
A Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) team visited Yemen in June 2010. The mission featured the participation of Dubai Cares, the UAE-based philanthropic, and examined how the international donor community responded to the crisis. Yemen has some of the worst [...] Read more...
The occupied Palestinian territories HRI
A Political Crisis with Humanitarian Consequences The international donor response in the Occupied Palestinian Territories cannot be understood without reference to the complex political nature of the conflict, including in 2007 the inter-Palestinian violence [...] Read more...
The Central African Republic HRI
Adversity in a Silent Crisis The crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) is practically unknown. As opposed to forgotten emergencies, it has never been in the limelight or received real attention. However, poverty, a ‘ghost’ state, and an internal conflict [...] Read more...
Sudan HRI
A Tragedy of Epic Proportions The humanitarian situation in Sudan further deteriorated in 2007, despite the largest humanitarian operation in the world. The country continues to suffer from the impact of interrelated conflicts in the south and west, as well as [...] Read more...
Sri Lanka HRI
A Forgotten Complex Emergency: Back to War Again The internal conflict between the Sri Lankan state and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has lasted over 25 years, claimed over 70,000 lives, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. The steady [...] Read more...
Peru HRI
Earthquake: Realities and Myth The earthquake which hit the Ica region of Peru in August 2007 and affected over 131,000 families and killed 519 people was nevertheless relatively minor compared to other disasters. However, it received considerable media attention [...] Read more...
Nicaragua HRI
Living in the Eye of the Storm Nicaragua has a long and painful history of natural disasters, which have devastated lives, particularly those of the poor and most vulnerable, and suffocated the country’s economic and human development. On September 4, 2007 [...] Read more...
Democratic Republic of the Congo HRI
The Giant with Feet of Clay Despite the world’s largest peacekeeping mission and considerable political progress and relative stability at the national level, conflict in the east and massive humanitarian needs continued to plague the Democratic Republic of [...] Read more...