The 2011 Humanitarian Accountability Report

“The purpose of this chapter' is to assess progress made during 2011 towards achieving HAP International's founding vision of a 'humanitarian system championing the rights and dignity of disaster survivors As in previous years, the overview chapter is based on a desk review of relevant websites, news releases, publications, document sources, and evaluations published during 2011, as well as interviews with selected key informants. In contrast to previous years, the chapter offers an overall review of highlights in humanitarian accountability instead of a compendium of developments reported separately for NGOs, the Red Cross family, the UN system, and donor organisations. This was decided because highly significant developments in 2011 involved combinations of NGO, Red Cross, UN and sometimes donor actors working together, and due to space limitations.”