DOCUMENTS
Evaluating Humanitarian Action using the OECD-DAC criteria. An ALNAP Guide for Humanitarian Agencies. Tony Beck, Overseas Development Institute. March 2006.
This guide provides a framework designed to help interpret essential DAC criteria specifically in a humanitarian context. It offers practical information for evaluators, as well as those managing evaluations.
The "Good Humanitarian Donorship" principles. GHD, 2003.In 2003, a group of donors approved the Principles of Good Humanitarian Donorship. Two years later, in 2005, all 23 members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee joined the proposal. The 23 principles and good practices guide the actions of donors and establish mechanisms that promote accountability and transparency in their actions.
The Aid Paradigm Towards the Saharawi Refugees: Three Keys. Silvia Hidalgo. FRIDE. December 2005.After thirty years of exile in the Saharawi camps in southwestern Algeria, the author analyses three key points that contribute to the conditions of dependency that those in the camps suffer.
DEVELOPMENT
Towards a New Era in Development Aid: Building Effective Institutional Infrastructure in LDC. 2003. Development Finance Corporation.
The study provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of development aid over the past 50 years. The document raises the need to reform development aid based on existing needs. The study also presents specific recommendations for countries receiving development aid to use and implement programmes more efficiently.
Volume II of Towards a New Era in Development Aid: Building Effective Institutional Infrastructure in LDC. 2003. Development Finance Corporation.The second part of this book focuses on the response to complex emergencies, including strategies to link relief to rehabilitation and development. The study includes the following cases: Côte d’Ivoire, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and Uganda.