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His experience covers government, NGO, UN and the private sector Lesley Bourns, policy analysis and innovation, United Nations OCHA New York, US Lesley works in the policy branch at OCHA, focusing most recently on research on humanitarian effectiveness.
Attendant to these developments, there is a new emphasis on humanitarian effectiveness as a kind of superior steering principle that is on par with traditional humanitarian principles.
For its part, the ICRC notes that "maintaining dialogue with all parties ensures humanitarian effectiveness, in that it builds trust and permits access to those in need" (ICRC 2015).
Effectiveness is also regarded as the objective of innovation as is illustrated by the language used in a recent report on innovation, which aims "to understand and recommend how best to strengthen and improve the humanitarian innovation ecosystem so it can make the best possible contribution to overall humanitarian effectiveness" (Ramalingam et al. 2015).
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In a comment on the relationship between humanitarian ethics and effectiveness, Slim (2013) suggests that "effectiveness is essentially value-neutral.
Mortality is a key indicator of the magnitude of the humanitarian situation and effectiveness of the humanitarian responses, and nearly 10% of the journal's output has been reports of mortality using retrospective surveys, surveillance methods and meta-analyses, including those from Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Iraq and Somali refugees in Kenya [ 39- 46].
In the seemingly endless public debate about the effectiveness of humanitarian aid, people often ask why we bother.
Women and men also have different skillsets and areas of expertise which, if utilised correctly, can alter the effectiveness of humanitarian responses and overall community resilience.
Ross Mountain Madrid, Dec. 16, 2010 The writer is director general of DARA, an organization that aims to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian aid.
"World leaders should listen to the main recommendations of this report, including the need to boost the effectiveness of humanitarian response programmes by providing greater funding to the local organisations which are on the frontline and best prepared to respond to any emergency".
For the purposes of this assessment, indications for how the use of different assistance modalities may influence the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance were sought.
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