Codes & Standards

If you haven’t seen it already, take a look at the All In Diary.

It’s a kind of aide-memoire for humanitarians, woven into an A5 diary. Each topic gets one page: enough space for the main headlines, plus links to the full guidelines for that topic.

(The Advice Pages on www.aidworkers.net take a similar approach, on the basis that no-one wants 80 pages when they can see the main points on a single page, then click for more if they want.)

The idea is to raise standards by distributing the diary widely among aid

The Haiti Earthquake response was characterised by unprecedented participation. Even the Asian Tsunami, as messy as it was, was not the free-for-all that Haiti became almost overnight.

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New SIPRI tool reduces involvement of arms traffickers in humanitarian aid and peace-keeping operations

There are no easy answers in shelter. But are you asking the right questions?

A very comprehensive resource that complements AWN's advice pages - take a look. Culled from the Dev-Zone Development email list.

Center for Global Development presents a brown bag seminar on Lessons from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative for Improving Governance

The myth of NGO superiority
Source: Peter Nunnenkamp, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) offers training to staff in the UN, NGOs, and lending institutions in matters related to procurement, logistics and contracts management.

Corruption risks, perceptions and prevention in humanitarian assistance

Foreign Policy has an interesting interview with Conor Foley, touching on humanitarian reform.

One of of the major issues that I have consistently faced in working abroad is how to make organizational change proceed as smoothly as possible.

Managing the implementation of shelter programmes is a fundamental part of response in the aftermath of disaster as well as in early recovery situations.