Mission project

Occupied Palestinian territories HRI 2011 field research

A Humanitarian Response Index team will visit the occupied Palestinian territories from 28th March to 2nd April. The team will interview UN agencies, Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement national societies, local and international NGOs, and local authorities on the [...] Read more...

Somalia and Kenya HRI 2011 Field Missions

After completing a mission in Chad, the Humanitarian Response Index 2011 continues in a joint mission to collect information on the Somalia and Kenya crises. The mission will run from 21st to 26th February. Read more...

Colombia – HRI 2010 Mission

An invisible long-running crisis Colombia has suffered a 40-year long internal conflict, the longest in Latin American history and one of the longest running in the world. Throughout the four decades the characteristics of the crisis have remained the same: land [...] Read more...

Sri Lanka – HRI 2010 Mission

A Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) team travelled to Sri Lanka for the third year to analyze donor response to the displacement crisis one year after the end of the conflict between the Government of Sri Lanka and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). One [...] Read more...

Afghanistan – HRI 2010 Mission

Afghan aid risks militarisation In Afghanistan, humanitarian crises stem from chronic vulnerabilities whose origins are found in more than 30 years of war and conflict, poor governance, recurrent natural disasters and critically low levels of social and economic [...] Read more...

Occupied Palestinian Territories – HRI 2010 Mission

For the third consecutive year the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) team undertook a mission to the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) from 7-17 March to analyse international donor response to the protracted crisis. Magda Ninaber van Eyben, former Chief [...] Read more...

Pakistan – HRI 2010 Mission

DARA´s Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) team visited Pakistan from March 3-12 and collected information on overall donor response to the displacement crisis. It is the second time that DARA sends a team in Pakistan. While in 2007 the organization analyzed donor [...] Read more...

Somalia – HRI 2010 Mission

Executive Summary: Humanitarian needs unmet as counter-terrorism focus limits response In 2009 Somalia, described in the Humanitarian Response Index 2008 as “possibly the world’s most extreme failed state”, faced its worst humanitarian crisis in years [...] Read more...

The Philippines – HRI 2010 Mission

HRI mission to the Philippines: The inequality of humanitarian aid In its recent Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) mission to the Philippines, DARA has found that while the international community mobilized in response to tropical storm Ketsana and typhoon Parma [...] Read more...

Indonesia – HRI 2010 Mission

HRI Indonesia mission points to Tsunami lessons missing from 2009 earthquakes' response DARA’s Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) 2010 mission to Indonesia has found that the international donor response to last year’s two earthquakes has been extremely uneven [...] Read more...