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Risk Reduction Index in West Africa: data collection and workshops
The Risk Reduction Index (RRI) data collection process in six study countries (Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Senegal, and The Gambia) has now finalised. The process involved a questionnaire and interviews to a variety of key informants from a wide range [...] Read more...
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
DARA participated in the 4th Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, hosted by UNISDR and held in Geneva, May 19-23, 2013. DARA’s Belen Paley talks about the event. We presented our findings from our Risk Reduction Index work in six countries in West [...] Read more...
On DARA’s new developments
Letter from José Maria Figueres, Chair of DARA's Board of Trustees Dear Friends, Allow me to share with you important and significant developments that over the past few months have been taking place within DARA. In line with what he had been sharing [...] Read more...
Evaluation at a Glance: Chad
WFP-UNHCR Mixed Method Impact Evaluation in Chad The Contribution of Food Assistance to Durable Solutions in Protracted Refugee Situations: its impact and role in Chad CLIENT World Food Programme and UNHCR COUNTRY Chad TEAM Pierre Leguéné* Covadonga [...] Read more...
ALNAP: A call for evidence-based decision-making in humanitarian response
Source: ALNAP By Riccardo Polastro The ALNAP 2013 Annual Meeting held in March focused on evidence following the increasing demand of donors and humanitarian agencies for evidence-based and measurable responses. Evidence of needs and how we respond to [...] Read more...
Evaluation at a Glance: Bangladesh
WFP‐UNHCR Food Assistance Impact Evaluation in Bangladesh The Contribution of Food Assistance to Durable Solutions in Protracted Refugee Situations: its impact and role in Bangladesh CLIENT World Food Programme and UNHCR COUNTRY Bangladesh [...] Read more...
DARA matters
By Ed Schenkenberg van Mierop This year DARA will celebrate its 10th anniversary. In these ten years, DARA has become a force to be reckoned with in humanitarian policy and thinking. As a small independent organisation, DARA has been able to deliver high quality [...] Read more...
Study: How to Define and Measure Value for Money in the Humanitarian Sector
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and one of its long-standing partners in contexts strained by armed conflicts, the International Committee if the Red Cross (ICRC) have commissioned InDevelop, in collaboration with GRM and DARA, [...] Read more...
ICRC Panel Discussion: Humanitarian principles revisited? Current and future challenges
The International Review of the Red Cross and the Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) convened a panel discussion ‘Humanitarian Principles Revisited? Current and Future Challenges’, Geneva, March 21st. Read more...
How to improve humanitarian aid evaluation practices
Following the London, Geneva and Washington ALNAP Community of Practice workshops within the context of the Strengthening Humanitarian Evaluation Capacities initiative, in DARA we hosted one in Madrid on January 31st. A small but representative group of the Spanish [...] Read more...