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November 2010: Learning lessons in Haiti
By Ross Mountain The hurricane season is fast approaching in Haiti and shelter remains the main priority after the devastating earthquake on 12th January 2010. Although the international community has made considerable progress after a generous but rough start [...] Read more...
Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR)
DARA’s Director General, Ross Mountain, has been appointed Director of the United Kingdom’s independent HERR, a taskforce mandated to review the emergency response of the UK's humanitarian aid. The Review is led by Lord Ashdown, who chairs an Advisory Board. Read more...
Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation of the humanitarian response to Pakistan’s 2009-2010 Displacement Crisis
DARA launches its report on the Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation (IA RTE) of the humanitarian crisis that affected Pakistan from mid 2009 until 2010, the largest internal displacement the world has experienced this century. The report, commissioned by the Inter [...] Read more...
October 2010: Advocating for the vulnerable
Advocating for the Vulnerable By Ross Mountain While Copenhagen did not live up to anyone’s expectations, one thing that did happen was that the insistence of one small threatened country through the voice of its president, including the use of an underwater [...] Read more...
Evaluating the response to Pakistan’s 2009 displacement crisis
DARA is carrying out an Inter-Agency Real Time Evaluation (IA-RTE) of the humanitarian response to Pakistan´s displacement crisis for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The evaluation is groundbreaking on three counts, [...] Read more...
DARA – Climate Vulnerable Forum partnership consolidated during UN General Assembly
DARA’s global Climate Vulnerability Report was announced the flagship communication tool of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) during their meeting held at the time of the UN General Assembly in New York. The Forum was established in November 2009 as a grouping [...] Read more...
Interview with Magda Ninaber
Interview with Magda Ninaber, senior DARA evaluator, on the occupied Palestinian territories: "A political crisis with humanitarian consequences" Read more...
June 2010: Feeding the inmates through the bars
Humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank: “Feeding the inmates through the bars” Op Ed by Ross Mountain in Arabic in An Nahar, a leading newspaper in Lebanon on Saturday 19th June 2010. The killing in "self-defense" of unarmed civilians during [...] Read more...
International Humanitarian Professionalisation Association (IHPA) proposed
ELRHA (enhancing learning & research for humanitarian assistance ) organized an international working forum on humanitarian professionalisation, chaired by DARA’s Director General Ross Mountain on June 22 in London. The forum reviewed a comprehensive [...] Read more...
Stronger international coordination and leadership will provide better humanitarian aid to men, women and children in Haiti
After the International Donors' Conference in New York, DARA welcomes the outpouring of support but urges donors to address persistent and urgent humanitarian needs. On January 12th, an earthquake ripped through Haiti and in just 35 seconds killed an estimated [...] Read more...