Reports

Overview: Oxfam’s position on the accountability of national security forces to civilians Security and development are deeply interlinked. Conflict-affected states require progress on both to achieve sustainable peace and broader human security. Over the past fifteen years,…

From New York to Tokyo to Kabul and beyond, donors and recipients of foreign assistance, especially those country recipients coming out of conflict, are having frank conversations about aid effectiveness. Donors are feeling the pinch of…

11 July 2012 - Afghan civil society has demanded an active role in decision making, policy development and monitoring of the policy implementations within the framework of mutual accountability endorsed in the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan…

DUBAI, 4 July 2012 (IRIN) - The rights-based framework may only have been formally adopted by the international humanitarian and development community in the past decade; but the concept that people in need have a right…

DUBAI, 4 July 2012 (IRIN) - Accountability has become a buzz word in the aid industry in recent years, but in the eyes of many aid workers, it remains a luxury they cannot afford given the…

DAKAR, 4 July 2012 (IRIN) - The Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda (JEEAR), a 1996 review by governments and aid agencies into the humanitarian response to the 1994 genocide, highlighted poor coordination, low accountability…

LAHORE, 7 June 2012 (IRIN) - Sidra Bibi*was a young girl living with her parents and siblings in the Pakistani city of Lahore when she suffered sexual abuse, and the trauma has lived with her over…

31 May 2012 – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expresses its strong concerns that conflict-related violence continues to kill and injure many Afghan women, men and children throughout the country. 2011 marked the…

The HAP membership and its Secretariat have released the annual review of the "year that was", the 2011 Humanitarian Accountability Report. This year's report was published in conjunction with the 2011 HAP Secretariat Report. The Humanitarian Accountability…

By Catherine Wilson GOROKA, Papua New Guinea , Apr 29, 2012 (IPS) - Sexual harassment of school-going girls is one factor that may prevent this Pacific island nation from achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of eliminating…