Humanitarian Response Index 2008: Measuring Commitment to Best Practice

Front Matter....Pages FM1-viii
Front Matter....Pages x-1
The Humanitarian Response Index: Donor Accountability in Humanitarian Action....Pages 3-48
Front Matter....Pages 48-49
The United States as Humanitarian Actor....Pages 51-64
A Tale of Two Indices: The Commitment to Development Index as a Model for the Humanitarian Response Index....Pages 65-74
Humanitarian Funding and Needs Assessment....Pages 75-88
New Approaches to Needs Assessment: Comprehensive and Rolling Diagnosis....Pages 89-96
The Giving-Receiving Relationship: Inherently Unequal?....Pages 97-105
Tackling Ignorance and Neglect: Advocacy for a Broader Humanitarian Response in the Central African Republic....Pages 106-113
Front Matter....Pages 114-118
Afghanistan: A Security-Driven Agenda....Pages 120-128
Bangladesh: Prepared for New Disasters?....Pages 130-138
Central African Republic: Adversity in a Silent Crisis....Pages 140-148
Chad: Internal Power Struggles and Regional Humanitarian Crisis....Pages 150-158
Colombia: The Displaced and the Forgotten....Pages 160-167
Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Giant with Feet of Clay....Pages 168-176
Nicaragua: Living in the Eye of the Storm....Pages 178-185
Occupied Palestinian Territories: A Political Crisis with Humanitarian Consequences....Pages 186-195
Earthquake in Peru: Realities and Myths....Pages 196-203
Sri Lanka: A Forgotten Complex Emergency – Back to War Again....Pages 204-213
Sudan: A Tragedy of Epic Proportions....Pages 214-224
Front Matter....Pages 226-229
Donor profiles....Pages 230-274
Back Matter....Pages 276-295