HRI News

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...

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...

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...

DARA supports World Humanitarian Day

With over 220 million people being affected by disasters every year, we would like to take the opportunity of World Humanitarian Day 2012 to share the importance of maxisimising aid efforts for the benefit of vulnerable people worldwide. Despite humanitarian [...] Read more...

Improving US foreign assistance

We continue to disseminate findings and recommendations of the Humanitarian Response Index 2011- Addressing The Gender Challenge in the US, as well as consulting stakeholders on the next phase of the HRI. Philip Tamminga and Marybeth Redheffer from the HRI [...] Read more...

DARA in the Skoll World Forum

DARA participated in the  Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship March 28th to 30th in Oxford. Philip Tamminga, Head of DARA’s Humanitarian Response Index, explored how government donors and the humanitarian sector can learn from and engage with social [...] Read more...