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HardTalk with Peter Maurer
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and DARA held the second humanitarian effectiveness HardTalk dialogue with Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, November 5th. View summary of first HardTalk [...] Read more...
Humanitarian Cafe: Antonio Donini
DARA celebrated its second Humanitarian Café with Antonio Donini, editor of The Golden Fleece, October 9th. “There has never been a ‘Golden Age’ for humanitarian principles. Ever since humanitarian aid has been delivered it has been instrumentalised [...] Read more...
HardTalk with Valerie Amos on humanitarian effectiveness
AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation) and DARA welcomed Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, to the first of three HardTalk dialogues on humanitarian action effectiveness on October 15th. [...] Read more...
From slow boil to breaking point: A real-time evaluation of UNHCR’s response to the Syrian refugee emergency
As the Syrian refugee emergency continues to escalate, with the 1 million mark reached in March, UNHCR has conducted a real-time evaluation of its response, focusing particularly on those countries receiving the largest numbers of refugees. The evaluation [...] Read more...
RRI in international forums
DARA participated in the UNISDR Making Cities Resilient Campaign Partners’ Meeting, held in Barcelona, April 4-5, 2013. Approximately fifty participants were in attendance, representing a range of countries across the globe and different sectors, including [...] Read more...
Regional DRR Mapping Exercise on Transnational Disaster Threats, April 2013, ECOWAS Commission, Abuja
The ECOWAS Commission hosted a two-day Regional DRR Mapping Exercise on Transnational Disaster Threats on 16-17 April 2013. The exercise was facilitated by the FOREWARN Initiative implementing partners, Humanitarian Futures Programme (HFP), King’s College London [...] Read more...
DARA’s Mixed Methods Approach to Evaluations
DARA was commissioned by World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to undertake two impact evaluations of food assistance in both Chad and Bangladesh in April 2012. The assignment was part of a four impact evaluation series, which aims to inform [...] Read more...
Humanitarian Café: Syria
DARA held its first Humanitarian Café event, Syria: Challenges in Delivering Effective Humanitarian Response on June 13th. The event featured a presentation of first impressions from UNHCR's recent real-time evaluation and a briefing on ACF Spain activities in [...] Read more...
Real-time evaluation of UNHCR’s response to the Syrian refugee emergency in Jordan, Lebanon and northern Iraq
As the Syrian refugee emergency continues to escalate, with the 1 million mark reached in March, UNHCR has initiated a real-time evaluation of its response, focusing particularly on those countries receiving the largest numbers of refugees. The primary purpose [...] Read more...