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DARA supports donors contributing to the United Nations Humanitarian Reform
DARA has provided the Spanish government, the fourth largest donor to the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) in 2009, with technical assistance. The CERF is one of the central pillars of the United Nations Humanitarian Reform, as well as one of the main [...] Read more...
DARA presents HRI 2009 findings at interactive Madrid event
DARA presented the HRI 2009 findings in a special and interactive debate with leading UN and NGO representatives, as well as journalists at Caixa Forum in Madrid on 3rd December. The debate, which examined how best to overcome the barriers facing the humanitarian [...] Read more...
Countdown to Launch of Humanitarian Response Index 2009
DARA will hold two events for the international launch of its global Humanitarian Response Index 2009 findingson Tuesday 10th November in Washington DC. The first of these events will be a press conference at the National Press Club, which will then be followed [...] Read more...
First Evaluation of International Committee of the Red Cross IDP policy
Evaluation of ICRC DARA is currently participating in the first evaluation of the International Committee of the Red Cross's (ICRC) policy on internally displaced persons (IDPs). The evaluation is the first to look at the organizations operational position towards [...] Read more...
Countdown to Launch of Humanitarian Response Index 2009
DARA will hold two events for the international launch of its global Humanitarian Response Index 2009 findings on Tuesday 10th November in Washington DC. The first of these events will be a press conference at the National Press Club, which will then be followed [...] Read more...
UNICEF Asia-Pacific Country Offices regional training
DARA has completed a regional training course for 14 Asia-Pacific Country Offices of UNICEF in the Philippines, from September to October this year. After introducing an evaluation policy in 2008, UNICEF Country Offices in the Asia Pacific region organized [...] Read more...
The HRI 2009 report reveals gaps in the effectiveness of humanitarian aid as economic crisis bites 
Almost half of the world’s main donor governments are not doing enough to ensure that public funding for humanitarian assistance is reaching those most in need, when they need it most, according to DARA’s 2009 Humanitarian Response Index (HRI), launched in Washington DC on 10 November. Read more...
HRI praised at the CGI 2009 for contribution to better humanitarian donorship
DARA’s Humanitarian Response Index was featured in a session of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York as one of four outstanding commitments from previous years. Read more...
HRI 2009 on the road to Washington
As part of research for the 2009 edition of the Humanitarian Response Index, DARA field teams have visited a total of 13 crises countries across four continents. Interviews have been conducted with over 450 field representatives of humanitarian organisations [...] Read more...
Evaluation of Humanitarian Assistance to Saharawis
Evaluation of DG ECHO's Actions in the Saharawi Refugee Camps The results of DARA's recent evaluation indicate that, after more than thirty years, basic needs have yet to be met in the Saharawi Refugee camps. The organisation was selected this year by the [...] Read more...