HRI
Podcast: Interview with Emma Bonino on the HRI 2010 and the Gaps in Humanitarian Aid 
Listen to our interview with Emma Bonino, Former European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, on the HRI 2010 and the gap between and practice and principle in humanitarian aid. Read more...
Podcast: Findings of the Humanitarian Response Index 2010 – The problems of politicisation
Every year around 350 million people's lives are shattered by the effects of disaster, conflict and crisis. The Humanitarian Response Index (or HRI), produced by DARA since 2007, assesses the world's main donor governments in funding and supporting humanitarian [...] Read more...
ReliefWeb: The Humanitarian Response Index 2010- The problems of politicisation
Source: ReliefWeb In 2009, donors provided over 11.5 billion USD in aid to respond to needs of millions of people affected by conflicts and natural disasters around the world. Ensuring that aid is used correctly is no easy task, with humanitarian crises increasing [...] Read more...
Somalia HRI mission: the politicization of humanitarian aid
DARA’s Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) team visited Nairobi from February 14 to 24 to collect information on donors’ response to humanitarian needs in Somalia. Heightened violence and insecurity has led to most humanitarian actors working in Somalia [...] Read more...
Albertien van der Veen: “There is a very dangerous erosion of humanitarian principles in Somalia”
Albertien van der Veen is a senior evaluator for DARA with over 20 years of experience in humanitarian aid and development assistance. She has worked for NGOs, UN agencies and donors. Fresh from her Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) mission to Nairobi, she shares [...] Read more...
Somalia Humanitarian crisis fact sheet
Since the beginning of 2007, violence due to the conflict has killed at least 18,000 civilians. Read more...
Colombia HRI 2010: “Donors should engage with new government on protection and humanitarian needs”
As the country's presidency changes hands, DARA's HRI 2010 mission to Colombia finds that government efforts to deny the existence of an armed conflict have condemned millions of victims to invisibility and produced resignation within the donor and humanitarian [...] 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...