Humanitarian aid is largely guided by anecdotes rather than evidence. Currently, the humanitarian system shows significant weaknesses in data collection, analysis and response in all stages of a crisis or emergency. As a result, the present humanitarian system is much less evidence-driven than it should be and than it would like to be.
The UK government set out it’s response to the Independent HERR report on the 15th June. There is much that is positive within the response with the Government accepting the majority of the HERR recommendations.
Submitted by Nick Hall on Tue, 15/05/2012 - 10:43am
Children and especially teenagers have a important role to play in both, though too often they are seen as nothing more than victims in disasters. Experience shows that children can be the very best advocates to encourage governments to focus attention on those most vulnerable in society.
We are pleased to launch a new feature on the ELRHA website: the ELRHA blog :)
The idea behind the blog is to create a space for ELRHA stakeholders to update and discuss items of interest related to the fields of work ELRHA is engaged in. These are:
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