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1. INTRODUCTION

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ENSEÑANZA .1

La sequía es un fenómeno recurrente y natural en muchas áreas. Las organizaciones humanitarias pueden ser más eficaces cuando si lo tienen en cuenta en su programación.

INTRODUCTION

• An estimated 12 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in East Africa .

• Aid agencies in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya have reported high rates of acute malnutrition as well as large numbers of livestock deaths and other indicators of livelihood distress.

• Numerous factors, including drought, the protracted conflict in Somalia, rising food prices, seasonal floods and localised resource conflicts are contributing to a deepening crisis.

Margie Buchanan-Smith avec Kim Scriven

RÉSUMÉ

Background

The need to pay increased attention to the promotion of innovations in humanitarian action has been recognised across the system in recent years. The nature of humanitarian assistance is such that agencies must focus on immediate efforts to extend assistance to populations in need, but this should not be seen as an argument for risk aversion or conservatism. Instead, agencies should be actively seeking-out new approaches and ways of working that increase their operational performance.

Background

ALNAP has done more work on evaluations of humanitarian action (EHAs) during the past few years than at any other time in its history. This has included research on evaluation utilisation, joint evaluations, a pilot guide on real-time evaluations, a meeting and study on impact assessments, a new look Evaluation Reports Database, and the new State of the Humanitarian System report, which included an extensive evaluation synthesis.