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Session Title: Humanitarian Response Index: Accountability, Transparency and Quality
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Panel Session 324 to be held in the Granite Room Section C on Thursday, Nov 6, 1:40 PM to 3:10 PM
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Sponsored by the Disaster and Emergency Management Evaluation TIG
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| Silvia Hildago,
Development Assistance Research Associates,
shidalgo@daraint.org
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| Abstract:
A number of initiatives exist to track the implementation of the Good Humanitarian Donorship, including the OECD-DAC peer reviews. While this process is encouraging, the lack of comprehensive impact indicators for measuring individual donor performance continues to be identified by the donor community as an outstanding challenge.
Dara has developed an index which measures donor performances within humanitarian aid. Experts behind the index will present the index, its purpose, theory and how donors reacted to the first publication in November 2007.
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Purposes of the Humanitarian Response Index
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| Philip Tamminga,
Development Assistance Research Associates,
ptamminga@daraint.org
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Silvia Hidalgo will discuss the purpose of the Humanitarian Response Index. She will go into depth on the benefits of benchmarking as an accountability tool, and ways in which others could use benchmarking to increase adherence to voluntary guidelines and principles, and many of the issues involved in launching such an initiative for the first time.
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The Five Pillars of the Index (Theoretical Underpinnings)
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| Laura Altinger,
Development Assistance Research Associates,
laltinger@daraint.org
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Mr. Tamminga will describe the five 'pillars' which were established to group the different Principles of Good Humanitarian Donorship, each containing soft and hard data indicators. There are a total of 57 indicators that constitute the 'pillars', which together form the basis for the Index and its ranking. The five pillars are: 1) responding to humanitarian needs, 2) linking relief and development, 3) working with humanitarian partners, 4) implementing international guiding principles, and 5) promoting learning and accountability.
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Practice Input to the Index: Field Missions, Questionnaires and Lessons Learned
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| Nicolai Steen,
Development Assistance Research Associates,
nsteen@daraint.org
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Mr. Steen will discuss the field missions and the reason behind the crises' selection (type of crisis, geographic distribution, magnitude of crisis, presence of donors and amount of funding received). Mr. Steen will also explain the questionnaire used to capture the perceptions of implementing humanitarian organizations, including NGOs, United Nations System and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. He will elaborate on lessons learned from the experience.
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