By DARA (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0230221963
ISBN-13: 9780230221963
ISBN-10: 0230584616
ISBN-13: 9780230584617
The function of this annual file is to improve an index of fine humanitarian donorship that would degree donors' effectiveness opposed to their dedication to the foundations and sturdy instruction of Humanitarian Donorship. The index is meant to aid the foreign donor group to raised comprehend its strengths and weaknesses so one can enhance the potency and caliber of its donor actions and projects. The index is usually anticipated to elevate understanding concerning the more and more very important position of humanitarian motion and linked stable practices past its present middle constituencies. We think that this document deals major capability to enhance the standard of humanitarian reduction, reaping rewards these most influenced by means of either man-made and traditional disasters.
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Many aid agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territories and Colombia raised concerns about requirements imposed by some donors (particularly the United States and European Commission) to ensure that humanitarian assistance did not support groups classified as terrorist organisations. Several agencies interviewed often stated that this made it operationally impossible for them to work, and contravened humanitarian principles on impartiality, neutrality and independence. These issues are not new, but do reinforce the need for the international community to revisit the question of how to ensure humanitarian action meets its primary objectives of saving lives and alleviating suffering without compromising its basic principles.
Humanitarian agencies in the field positively perceived the performance of Denmark. Denmark scored slightly below the group average in questions relating to preventing or strengthening preparedness for emergencies, the perception of its capacity for informed decision-making, and its support for IDPs. By contrast, Denmark scored well on other questions relating to the international guiding principles such as the respect and support for human rights and international humanitarian and refugee law.
However, in the indicators measuring funding to forgotten emergencies and those with low media coverage, and the sectoral distribution of funding through UN appeals, as a group donors score more poorly compared to other indicators, with a large variation between the top and bottom ranked donors. This would seem to indicate that there are numerous, and at times competing, reasons that drive donor funding beyond purely humanitarian concerns. Furthermore, it is important to note that of the quantitative indicators that make up this Pillar, the lowest results as a group are in the indicator on generosity of humanitarian assistance, although there is a considerable difference between the top and bottom donors.