In the Media
Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network: DARA Examines Top Donors’ Humanitarian Response
Source: Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network The urgency demanded by humanitarian disasters often overwhelms a long-term vision, but aid effectiveness and foresight remain key considerations in the provision of aid. DARA, an international organization [...] Read more...
TrustLaw: Quality in humanitarian aid is not just a matter of more money
Source: TrustLaw Fernando Espada is field research manager of DARA's Humanitarian Response Index. DARA is an independent organisation committed to improving the quality and effectiveness of aid for vulnerable populations suffering from conflict, disasters [...] Read more...
The Huffington Post: When Media Show Starving Children, Aid is Too Late
Source: Huffington Post Canada Today DARA launched the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) 2011 , a report that assesses how well the world's main donor governments support the response to disasters and conflicts. It's the fifth year we've done this, and the [...] Read more...
AlertNet: Aid sector insensitive to gender needs – report
Source: AlertNet Three times as many women lost their lives in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami - often because they had never been taught how to swimor climb trees like their husbands, sons and brothers. Girls in refugee camps are often the last to be fed [...] Read more...
IRIN News: Aid Policy- Big is not always best among the donors
Source: IRIN News Every year for the past five years, the Madrid-based organization, DARA International, has tracked the major international aid donors and ranked them according to how well the apply a set of agreed principles related to effectiveness and [...] Read more...
The Guardian: Top aid donors score badly in responding to crises
Source: The Guardian The Humanitarian Response Index says top donors fail to implement reforms to streamline emergency aid provision Aid donors have failed to address long-standing systematic problems in how they respond to disasters and emergencies [...] Read more...
The Global Journal: The Gender Challenge In Humanitarian Response
Source: The Global Journal Humanitarian action inadequately takes into account gender issues. According to the 2011 Humanitarian Response Index released by DARA (March 7, 2012), there is a significant gap in understanding of the importance of gender concerns [...] Read more...
CEPR: Evaluation of Donor Response to Haiti Earthquake Shows “Building Back Better” Nothing But a Slogan
Source: CEPR For the previous five years an independent organization, DARA, has been publishing the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI). The DARA website explains the HRI as “the world’s only independent tool for measuring the individual performance and commitment [...] Read more...
Los Angeles Times: Help for needy countries too often politicized, aid groups say
Source: Los Angeles Times When the United States and other nations open their wallets to help countries in need, some groups fear the donors' reasons are less than altruistic, according to a new report from a nonprofit that seeks to improve aid. Humanitarian [...] Read more...
AlertNet: Aid groups must heed lessons of Niger crisis
Source: AlertNet By George Fominyen DAKAR (AlertNet) - With Niger facing another year of food shortages that threaten 7 million people, a former aid official has warned U.N. and foreign aid agencies to heed the lessons from the West African country's devastating [...] Read more...