Humanitarian system gets a “B-minus”
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DAKAR, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - The emergency aid industry has improved but must try harder, according to the broadest ever assessment of its performance.
Reviewers from the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitarian action (ALNAP) assessed how well donors, UN agencies, the International Organization for Migration, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement and NGOs were meeting humanitarian needs worldwide and coordinating. The review involved interviews with hundreds of aid workers, analyses of financial data and agency evaluations.
While past inter-agency reviews have addressed individual emergency responses – notably the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda (JEEAR) and the joint Tsunami evaluation (TEC) - ALNAP said it was time the strengths and weakness of the whole sector were analyzed to identify its future direction.
“You can’t ascertain the performance of a national health system just by reviewing individual hospitals,” ALNAP head John Mitchell told IRIN “We needed a review because over the past 20 years the humanitarian sector has become bigger and expectations have grown; the sector is [higher on political agendas] and receives more media scrutiny; and in principle there is agreement that the way aid is delivered should be more coherent.”
Surprises
The first surprise for reviewers was that the system is actually improving, Mitchell said. The JEEAR painted an ugly picture of uncoordinated, inefficient assistance and the TEC an operation where competition among agencies supplanted cooperation.
More at the link:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88034
Reviewers from the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitarian action (ALNAP) assessed how well donors, UN agencies, the International Organization for Migration, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement and NGOs were meeting humanitarian needs worldwide and coordinating. The review involved interviews with hundreds of aid workers, analyses of financial data and agency evaluations.
While past inter-agency reviews have addressed individual emergency responses – notably the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda (JEEAR) and the joint Tsunami evaluation (TEC) - ALNAP said it was time the strengths and weakness of the whole sector were analyzed to identify its future direction.
“You can’t ascertain the performance of a national health system just by reviewing individual hospitals,” ALNAP head John Mitchell told IRIN “We needed a review because over the past 20 years the humanitarian sector has become bigger and expectations have grown; the sector is [higher on political agendas] and receives more media scrutiny; and in principle there is agreement that the way aid is delivered should be more coherent.”
Surprises
The first surprise for reviewers was that the system is actually improving, Mitchell said. The JEEAR painted an ugly picture of uncoordinated, inefficient assistance and the TEC an operation where competition among agencies supplanted cooperation.
More at the link:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88034
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