The Somalia NGO Consortium stresses the need to overcome any perception that the objective of humanitarian assistance is to stabilize or support the Federal Government.

New Report on U.S. Aid to Haiti Finds “Troubling” Lack of Transparency, Effectiveness

“Haitians, U.S. taxpayers unable to verify how U.S. aid funds are being used on the ground”

For Immediate Release: April 3, 2013 Contact: Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460

After several years of mega-disasters and consequent high funding for disaster response, international humanitarian disaster funding dipped to the relatively low 2009 level.

March 2013

Mikaela Gavas, Simon Levine, Simon Maxwell and Andrew Norton

This publication outlines details of a submission by researchers from the Overseas Development Institute for European Union Balance of Competences Review on the Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Report.

Executive summary

Las Restricciones al Acceso de los Defensores de Derechos Humanos a la Financiación Aumentan la Impunidad

Publicación del Informe Anual 2013 del Observatorio para la Protección de los Defensores de Derechos Humanos.

An estimated $9 billion of public and private funding has been spent on disaster recovery in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Of that, $2.25 billion in public funding has been disbursed by the United States alone. But despite the large amount of public money involved, it is nearly impossible to track how it has been spent and what has been achieved. The transparency and accountability of US spending in Haiti needs to be improved. Here we suggest three steps to do so: Require prime contractors to report subcontracting data Adopt the International Aid Transparency Initiative

This policy note is a preliminary effort to present a body of knowledge on the state of disaster risk financing and insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa. It aims to contribute to a strengthened understanding and collective knowledge within Sub-Saharan Africa on disaster risk financing and insurance, and to encourage open dialogue between stakeholders on how strategies can best be developed to increase financial resilience against natural disasters. The report is targeted at policy-makers and actors in the international community with an interest in this agenda.

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This paper recommends the establishment and administration of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRM) Fund to (i) support the development of proactive IDRM measures on a regional basis within developing member countries (DMCs) in Southeast Asia; and (ii) enter into the channel financing arrangement with the Government of Canada in relation to its grant contribution to the fund.