Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Upcoming events & opportunities:

Call for presentations: 28th ALNAP Meeting on Evidence and Knowledge in Humanitarian Action, Washington, DC, March 2013 [info]
- Submit an abstract by 16 November 2012.

Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, Seattle, 21-24 October 2012 [info]
- "Technology for the benefit of humanity"; registration is ongoing.

Publications:

Can Evidence Save Lives? Perspectives from Humanitarian Actors, New York, 19 July 2012 [info]
- See the concept note and background paper for this event.

IASC Real Time Evaluation (IASC RTE) of the Humanitarian Response to the Horn of Africa Drought Crisis 2011: Regional Mechanisms and Support during the Response (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, June 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also synthesis report.

Mainstreaming GBV - Drought, Famine, and Displacement in Somalia: Considerations for Emergency Humanitarian Response (Protection Cluster, Aug. 2011) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Staff Care and Humanitarian Aid Organizations: A Moral Obligation," The Applied Anthropologist, vol. 31, no. 2 (2011) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 49.

Towards More Coordination of Aid in the Gulf (IRIN, Sept. 2012) [text]

Web resource:

AidSource [access]
- A humanitarian social network; read "AidSourcery 101: Getting the most out of your AidSource experience" to help you get started.

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