HRI
The Listen and Learn Project: Improving Aid Accountability in Haiti
The Listen and Learn project, a joint DARA/Keystone initiative funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, aimed to improve the accountability of aid efforts in Haiti and provide a model for greater beneficiary accountability in relief and recovery programming [...] Read more...
NEW OCHA & DARA Report: Saving Lives Today and Tomorrow
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in collaboration with DARA, has launched its 2014 Flagship Policy Report Saving Lives Today and Tomorrow: Managing the Risk of Humanitarian Crises in New York City today. The report [...] Read more...
Humanitarian HardTalk with Claus Sorensen
The HardTalk Series on Humanitarian Aid Effectiveness concluded with a dialogue with Claus Sørensen, Director General of Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department, ECHO, November 14th. The debate around humanitarian aid effectiveness has increased [...] Read more...
Humanitarian Cafe: Antonio Donini
DARA celebrated its second Humanitarian Café with Antonio Donini, editor of The Golden Fleece, October 9th. “There has never been a ‘Golden Age’ for humanitarian principles. Ever since humanitarian aid has been delivered it has been instrumentalised [...] Read more...
Dialogos Humanitarios
Ya están disponibles los resúmenes y fotos de los diálogos humanitarios: Diálogo con Valerie Amos Diálogo con Peter Maurer En muchas crisis humanitarias, como Siria y el Sahel, las necesidades superan los recursos disponibles y [...] 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...
Beneficiary Accountability in Haiti research case study
DARA Inc., our office in the US, has secured its first grant with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for an action research case study of good and poor donor practices in Haiti. The project aims to improve the quality, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of aid for disaster affected populations in Haiti and elsewhere. Read more...
OCHA Survey
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has commissioned DARA a study on Anticipating the Humanitarian Impact of Global Challenges. The aim of this study is to help the international aid community better understand how global [...] 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...
Humanitarian Response Index 2011 presented to Belgian Government Humanitarian Aid Agency
DARA was invited by Belgium’s Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid to present the Humanitarian Response Index 2011 findings, 15 May, Brussels. The presentation was part of a discussion “Bridging the gap between policy and [...] Read more...