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Ross Mountain: “We need to go back to basics”
Following the tragedy that struck Haiti on the 12th January of 2010, the evaluation and humanitarian community has held a series of meetings to analyze and improve collaboration in evaluating the international response. In May, during the ALNAP and European Policy [...] Read more...
Ross Mountain at DIHAD 2010
Ross Mountain, Director General of DARA, chaired a conference panel on health priorities in disasters and crises at DIHAD 2010 (Dubai International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition), 5 April, 2010. The panel for What does "first [...] Read more...
DARA’s RRI aims to mitigate impact of Haiti-like disasters
DARA continues to make progress in the development of the Risk Reduction Index (RRI) which will provide a means for measuring disaster risk reduction capacities and conditions in different countries. In the short term, this index methodology will be applied in [...] Read more...
Earthquake in Haiti
The massive earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale, that recently hit Haiti only 10 miles from the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, has caused shock worldwide. DARA, which has worked in Haiti within the context of the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI [...] Read more...
DARA participates in world’s fourth IA-RTE
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has selected DARA to carry out an Inter-Agency Real-Time Evaluation (IA-RTE) of the humanitarian response to the recent typhoons Ketsana and Parma in the Philippines. The typhoons which hit the [...] Read more...
DARA assists EU presidency aid efforts in Haiti
DARA has provided technical assistance in Haiti to the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID in its Spanish acronym) in its EU Presidency commitment to contribute to the coordination of the on the ground response. In the aftermath [...] Read more...
Interview with Ross Mountain
Interview with Ross Mountain, DARA Director General and former UNDP Resident Representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Read more...
Former top UN official Ross Mountain heads DARA
Ross Mountain took up his position as DARA's Director General on January 1st 2010 following a long and distinguished career in the service of the humanitarian sector. With this appointment, DARA - an international, independent non-profit organization - seeks [...] Read more...
DARA team travels to Haiti to assist EU presidency aid efforts
DARA has sent a team of experts to Haiti to provide technical assistance to the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID in its Spanish acronym) in its EU Presidency commitment to contribute to the coordination of the Union’s on the ground [...] Read more...
DARA urges international community to learn from past mistakes in Haiti
The evaluation agency had reported neglect and lack of disaster preparedness in Haiti on behalf of donors and agenciesAs the world reels in shock at the sight of thousands of dead, injured and hungry Haitians, DARA experts, who had visited the Haiti various times [...] Read more...