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REPORT: The European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid- an NGO Perspective
The European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid is the single most significant policy document that guides the EU and its member states in providing humanitarian response. The EU institutions and member states reached agreement on the Consensus in 2007. In 2008, a [...] Read more...
Humanitarian HardTalk with Yves Daccord on the Universality of Humanitarian Action
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and DARA held the second humanitarian aid diversity HardTalk dialogue with Yves Daccord, Director- General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), April 24th. The debate [...] Read more...
New Report on Humanitarian Aid Effectiveness
DARA and AECID have just published a joint report on the 3-part Humanitarian Hardtalk series held in October and November 2013 in Madrid where leaders from three key humanitarian organisations (Valerie Amos, OCHA; Peter Maurer, ICRC; and Claus Sorensen, ECHO [...] Read more...
Humanitarian HardTalk with Kristalina Georgieva on diversity within the EU
The second round of the Humanitarian HardTalk series “The Multiple Faces of Humanitarianism” kicked off April 7 with Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response. The second round [...] Read more...
NEW OCHA & DARA Report: Saving Lives Today and Tomorrow
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in collaboration with DARA, has launched its 2014 Flagship Policy Report Saving Lives Today and Tomorrow: Managing the Risk of Humanitarian Crises in New York City today. The report [...] Read more...
Presentation: Disaster risk reduction needs to be addressed more holistically by the humanitarian sector
DARA presented the Risk Reduction Index in West Africa at the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) weekly meeting in Geneva , 22 January. The IASC weekly meeting is organised by the IASC Secretariat to disseminate reports and promote debate on issues relevant [...] Read more...
Risk Reduction Index in West Africa
DARA presented the second report of the Risk Reduction Index (RRI), this time carried out in West Africa, in Madrid today. Read the full report The RRI aims to help governments, civil society and other actors understand the underlying risks that render communities [...] Read more...
Evaluation of FAO’s DRR work in Asia, the Pacific, Latin America & the Caribbean
DARA published the evaluation report of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) work in disaster risk reduction in Asia and the Pacific, and in Latin America and the Caribbean. The evaluation provided FAO Member Countries and Secretariat [...] Read more...
Study: How to Define and Measure Value for Money in the Humanitarian Sector
DARA, in cooperation with Indevelop and GRM International, carried out a study on value for money in the humanitarian sector for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and one of its long-standing partners in contexts strained by armed [...] Read more...
Humanitarian HardTalk with Claus Sorensen
The HardTalk Series on Humanitarian Aid Effectiveness concluded with a dialogue with Claus Sørensen, Director General of Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department, ECHO, November 14th. The debate around humanitarian aid effectiveness has increased [...] Read more...