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Humanitarian HardTalk with Etharin Cousin on the Challenges in WFP’s Food Assistance
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and DARA held the third humanitarian aid diversity HardTalk dialogue with Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP), July 7th. The debate took place within the context [...] Read more...
REPORT: The European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid- an NGO Perspective
The European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid is the single most significant policy document that guides the EU and its member states in providing humanitarian response. The EU institutions and member states reached agreement on the Consensus in 2007. In 2008, a [...] Read more...
Presentation: Disaster risk reduction needs to be addressed more holistically by the humanitarian sector
DARA presented the Risk Reduction Index in West Africa at the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) weekly meeting in Geneva , 22 January. The IASC weekly meeting is organised by the IASC Secretariat to disseminate reports and promote debate on issues relevant [...] Read more...
Risk Reduction Index in West Africa
DARA presented the second report of the Risk Reduction Index (RRI), this time carried out in West Africa, in Madrid today. Read the full report The RRI aims to help governments, civil society and other actors understand the underlying risks that render communities [...] Read more...
HPN: The Syrian refugee crisis findings from a real-time evaluation of UNHCR’s response
In early 2013, the UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, Janet Lim, requested that a real-time evaluation be undertaken of UNHCR’s operations in Jordan, Lebanon and northern Iraq. Read more...
Evaluation of FAO’s DRR work in Asia, the Pacific, Latin America & the Caribbean
DARA published the evaluation report of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) work in disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific, and in Latin America and the Caribbean. The evaluation provided FAO Member Countries and Secretariat [...] Read more...
Study: How to Define and Measure Value for Money in the Humanitarian Sector
DARA, in cooperation with Indevelop and GRM International, carried out a study on value for money in the humanitarian sector for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and one of its long-standing partners in contexts strained by armed [...] Read more...
HardTalk with Peter Maurer
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and DARA held the second humanitarian effectiveness HardTalk dialogue with Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, November 5th. View summary of first HardTalk [...] Read more...
HardTalk with Valerie Amos on humanitarian effectiveness
AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation) and DARA welcomed Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, to the first of three HardTalk dialogues on humanitarian action effectiveness on October 15th. [...] Read more...
DARA’s Mixed Methods Approach to Evaluations
DARA was commissioned by World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to undertake two impact evaluations of food assistance in both Chad and Bangladesh in April 2012. The assignment was part of a four impact evaluation series, which aims to inform [...] Read more...