The 2008 Humanitarian Accountability Report

Author(s)
Borton, J.
Publication language
English
Pages
204pp
Date published
01 Jan 2008
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Accountability to affected populations (AAP), Conflict, violence & peace, Disasters, Cyclone, Earthquakes, Food and nutrition, Food security, Funding and donors, Forced displacement and migration, Internal Displacement
Countries
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chad, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Georgia, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Myanmar, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Uganda
Organisations
Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International (HAP)

 

The 2008 Humanitarian Accountability Report contains five chapters.


Chapter 1: An Overview of Humanitarian Accountability in 2008. The opening chapter provides an overview of materials relevant to humanitarian accountability published in 2008. The purpose of the annual humanitarian accountability essay is to offer an informed and independent view of progress made by the humanitarian system towards meeting HAP’s strategic vision of “a humanitarian sector with a trusted and widely accepted accountability framework, which is transparent and accessible to all relevant parties”. John Borton, a distinguished independent consultant, undertook the review. The “guest” chapter does not purport to represent the views of the HAP Secretariat or of the HAP membership.


Chapter 2: Survey of Perceptions of humanitarian accountability. This chapter reports on the fourth annual survey of perceptions of humanitarian accountability.


Chapter 3: Voices of disaster survivors. During 2008, HAP staff held extensive discussions with communities affected by disasters. Some of the direct quotes recorded at various locations are presented here.


Chapter 4: Members’ Accountability Workplan Implementation Reports.
In preparing for the 2009 General Assembly, most of HAP’s members prepared summary accountability workplan implementation reports. These are presented in tabulated form in this chapter.


Chapter 5: The HAP Secretariat Annual Report. This chapter was prepared by HAP staff and provides a self-assessment of progress achieved against the objectives set out in the 2008 workplan and the headline targets described in the 2007-2009 medium term strategic plan.