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Somalia conflict timeline
Since the fall of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, the Somali population has been subjected to decades of brutal inter-clan and warlord violence combined with frequent droughts and economic crises. For the past 18 years, Somalia has mostly remained in [...] Read more...
DARA’s RRI aims to mitigate impact of Haiti-like disasters
DARA continues to make progress in the development of the Risk Reduction Index (RRI) which will provide a means for measuring disaster risk reduction capacities and conditions in different countries. In the short term, this index methodology will be applied in [...] Read more...
Earthquake in Haiti
The massive earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale, that recently hit Haiti only 10 miles from the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, has caused shock worldwide. DARA, which has worked in Haiti within the context of the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI [...] Read more...
Video: DARA in Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake 
Footage from DARA´s 2010 visit to Haiti in the wake of the 2010 Earthquake. Read more...
Video: Ross Mountain in Haiti during the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake
Ross Mountain, Director General of DARA, speaks from the field in Haiti about the 2010 earthquake. Read more...
DARA participates in world’s fourth IA-RTE
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has selected DARA to carry out an Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation (IA-RTE) of the humanitarian response to the recent typhoons Ketsana and Parma in the Philippines. The typhoons which hit the [...] Read more...
DARA assists EU presidency aid efforts in Haiti
DARA has provided technical assistance in Haiti to the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID in its Spanish acronym) in its EU Presidency commitment to contribute to the coordination of the on the ground response. In the aftermath [...] Read more...
TVE1 Spain: DARA on the 2010 Haiti Earthquake (Spanish)
DARA´s team is interviewed about the 2010 Haiti Earthquake Read more...
Cuatro News Spain: DARA´s Silvia Hidalgo on the 2010 Haiti Earthquake (Spanish)
DARA´s Silvia Hidalgo on the 2010 Haiti Earthquake Read more...
DARA team travels to Haiti to assist EU presidency aid efforts
DARA has sent a team of experts to Haiti to provide technical assistance to the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID in its Spanish acronym) in its EU Presidency commitment to contribute to the coordination of the Union’s on the ground [...] Read more...