Measuring Commitment to Best Practice
HRI
GOOD HUMANITARIAN DONORSHIP
Good Humanitarian Donorship establishes a discussion framework for donors from which best practices and mechanisms can be established to promote accountability and transparency in humanitarian actions.
Donor countries have increased their donations to humanitarian action in recent years. This growth requires new mechanisms and practices that guarantee the delivery of resources to recipient countries in the best way possible and in the least amount of time. This money should be used based on the needs of the affected populations, whether they are provoked by natural hazard or conflict, and should also meet the basic criteria of humanitarian action – humanity, impartiality and neutrality.
With the goal of responding to these challenges, a group of donors approved the Principles of Good Humanitarian Donorship in 2003. Two years later, in 2005, all 23 members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee joined the initiative. It is the first initiative of its kind to be developed by and for donors.
Good Humanitarian Donorship establishes a discussion framework for donors, from which best practices and mechanisms can be established in order to promote accountability and transparency in humanitarian actions. The GHD establishes 23 Principles and Good Practices that guide the countries’ actions. Since its launch in 2003, annual meetings are held to revise the progress made and set priorities.