HRI
Compromiso Empresarial: How to effectively manage humanitarian aid (Spanish)
Source: Compromiso Empresarial La prevención de los desastres, la coordinación entre todos los agentes y la participación de las comunidades afectadas mejoran la eficacia de la ayuda humanitaria. Read more...
Compromiso Empresarial: “The aid must be subject to the needs of those affected” (Spanish)
Source: Compromiso Empresarial Ross Mountain, director general de Dara Ross Mountain es director general de Dara desde enero de 2011, una organización independiente que persigue mejorar la calidad y la eficacia de la ayuda humanitaria a poblaciones castigadas [...] Read more...
Pakistan HRI
Lessons from the floods The report indicates that donors should more generously support disaster preparedness and early recovery, as well as help Pakistani NGOs access funds and play a bigger role in crisis response. The team interviewed humanitarian organisations [...] Read more...
Democratic Republic of the Congo HRI
Leveraging donor support for long-term impact Humanitarian needs in the DRC are far from over. The national elections in late November provide a good opportunity for the international community to reflect on the impact of their massive support, and how best [...] Read more...
occupied Palestinian territories HRI
Few improvements, failing hopes The easing of the blockade in 2010 brought limited improvements in the lives of the population in the oPt, and humanitarian organisations continue to face operational challenges. Donors need to deploy all of their means by insisting [...] Read more...
Response to humanitarian crises HRI
Since 2007, the first year of the Humanitarian Response Index, DARA has been sending research teams to the field to collect comparable information about the overall response to humanitarian crises, with a specific focus on the OECD/DAC donors’ performance. [...] Read more...
Humanitarian Response Index 2011 HRI
[youtube 5i8jtTaYQv0 225 184] HRI 2011 Video [youtube CID4D_icMgc 225 184] Michelle Bachelet on the HRI 2011 Launch of the Humanitarian Response Index 2011: Addressing the Gender Challenge Since 2007, DARA’s Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) has provided [...] Read more...
AUDIO: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): The politicisation of aid
DARA presented the Humanitarian Response Index 2010 findings in an event hosted by the CSIS, May 17th 2011, Washington DC. During the event The Politicisation of Aid, Ross Mountain, DARA Director General, and Philip Tamminga, Head of Good Humanitarian Donorship [...] Read more...
DARA at Skoll World Forum 2011
Trustlaw asks Philip Tamminga, Head of the HRI, about the state of social entrepreneurship. DARA participated in the 2011 Skoll World Forum, March 30th – April 1st, Oxford, England. The theme of this year’s Forum was “Large Scale Change – ecosystems [...] Read more...
DARA participates in European Parliament hearing on humanitarian and military actors
Ross Mountain from Brussels: “The use of military assets for humanitarian assistance should be a last resort” [youtube 17IyswNSArM 242 200] 2011 © European Parliament The April 13th Public Hearing on “The blurring roles between humanitarian and military [...] Read more...