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DARA welcomes Ed Schenkenberg as new Chief Executive
Dear Friends, After a careful recruitment process, it is with great pleasure that we, together with the Board of Trustees, inform you that Ed Schenkenberg van Mierop, currently Executive Director of ICVA, will succeed Ross Mountain as Chief Executive of [...] Read more...
December 2012: Transition
A word from Ross Mountain: December 2012 After a particularly full and interesting three years with DARA, the time has come for me to move on. During my tenure I have been pleased to be part of the consolidation and expansion of the organisation’s evaluation [...] Read more...
Changes to DARA’s Board of Trustees
Following DARA’s Board of Trustees meeting, the following changes to the Board are effective as of Friday December 14th2012: DARA has appointed three new Board Members: Silvia Hidalgo, Founder of DARA, who steps in as Vice Chair; Niels Dabelstein [...] Read more...
External Evaluation of the Rapid Response to Population Movements (RRMP) Program
DARA has been commissioned by UNICEF to carry out the External Evaluation of the Rapid Response to Population Movements (RRMP) Program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The DRC suffers one of the most protracted humanitarian crisis in the world [...] Read more...
October 2012: Save Lives and Money
A word from Ross Mountain: October 2012 Climate change thinking received a shot in the arm with the launch of the second edition of DARA’s Climate Vulnerability Monitor developed on behalf of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, an international initiative currently [...] Read more...
Humanitarian Response Index presented at the NOHA Intensive Programme 2012
Philip Tamminga, Head of DARA’s Humanitarian Aid Accountability Initiative, presented the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) at a session of the NOHA Master’s Programme Intensive course, September 10th. The topic of this year’s programme, organized [...] Read more...
Presentation of Risk Reduction Index methodology at Davos 2012
DARA will present the methodology and preliminary findings of its Risk Reduction Index at the 4th International Disaster and Risk Conference- IDRC Davos 2012, August 28. The pilot phase of the Risk Reduction Index took place in Central America and the Caribbean [...] Read more...
UNICEF lists two DARA RTEs among the best evaluations
UNICEF lists two of DARA's Real-Time Evaluations (2010 Pakistan Floods & 2009 Pakistan Displacement Crisis) among the best evaluations in 2009 and 2010. Read more...
June 2012: Wide stakeholder survey on the value of the Humanitarian Response Index
A word from Ross Mountain: June 2012 In 2007 DARA created the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) to appraise donor government efforts around the quality, transparency and accountability of their humanitarian aid against GHD criteria. The aim has been to encourage [...] Read more...
UN OCHA Global Challenges Study
UN OCHA has commissioned DARA to carry out the “Global Challenges Study” on how to better anticipate and prepare for the humanitarian impact of global trends and future challenges. The study aims to help humanitarian organizations and decision-makers assess [...] Read more...