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Humanitarian Café: Syria
DARA held its first Humanitarian Café event, Syria: Challenges in Delivering Effective Humanitarian Response on June 13th. The event featured a presentation of first impressions from UNHCR's recent real-time evaluation and a briefing on ACF Spain activities in [...] Read more...
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
DARA participated in the 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, hosted by UNISDR and held in Geneva, May 19-23, 2013. DARA’s Belen Paley talks about the event. We presented our findings from our Risk Reduction Index work in six countries in West [...] Read more...
On DARA’s new developments
Letter from José Maria Figueres, Chair of DARA's Board of Trustees Dear Friends, Allow me to share with you important and significant developments that over the past few months have been taking place within DARA. In line with what he had been sharing [...] Read more...
Evaluation at a Glance: Chad
WFP-UNHCR Mixed Method Impact Evaluation in Chad The Contribution of Food Assistance to Durable Solutions in Protracted Refugee Situations: its impact and role in Chad CLIENT World Food Programme and UNHCR COUNTRY Chad TEAM Pierre Leguéné* Covadonga [...] Read more...
Evaluation at a Glance: Bangladesh
WFP‐UNHCR Food Assistance Impact Evaluation in Bangladesh The Contribution of Food Assistance to Durable Solutions in Protracted Refugee Situations: its impact and role in Bangladesh CLIENT World Food Programme and UNHCR COUNTRY Bangladesh [...] Read more...
DARA matters
By Ed Schenkenberg van Mierop This year DARA will celebrate its 10th anniversary. In these ten years, DARA has become a force to be reckoned with in humanitarian policy and thinking. As a small independent organisation, DARA has been able to deliver high quality [...] Read more...
Study: How to Define and Measure Value for Money in the Humanitarian Sector
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and one of its long-standing partners in contexts strained by armed conflicts, the International Committee if the Red Cross (ICRC) have commissioned InDevelop, in collaboration with GRM and DARA, [...] Read more...
ICRC Panel Discussion: Humanitarian principles revisited? Current and future challenges
The International Review of the Red Cross and the Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) convened a panel discussion ‘Humanitarian Principles Revisited? Current and Future Challenges’, Geneva, March 21st. Read more...
Get the data
Check out the new Data Portal for the latest Climate Vulnerability Monitor, including full access to the most recent and comprehensive climate change related impact and vulnerability estimates for 184 countries Read more...
How to improve humanitarian aid evaluation practices
Following the London, Geneva and Washington ALNAP Community of Practice workshops within the context of the Strengthening Humanitarian Evaluation Capacities initiative, in DARA we hosted one in Madrid on January 31st. A small but representative group of the Spanish [...] Read more...