Be a better donor: Practical Recommendations for humanitarian aid
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The arrival of large quantities of donations in a country affected by a disaster or emergency results in a major challenge as regards their organization and management by humanitarian actors, and can result in relevant and very valuable aid or in an additional burden which is difficult to manage and administrate. The technical and logistical challenges which this task involves are compounded by an additional difficulty in that often many of the donations are inappropriate, sent in haste and little in line with the real needs of the affected population or populations. Following the earthquakes in El Salvador which took place in 2001, approximately 37% of the medicines received as donations proved to be inappropriate in spite of a list of needs provided by the Salvadoran government. There are various reasons for these problems. The scenarios where they occur are also varied, but it is possible to identify a number of general causes... PAHO/WHO thanks the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Oxfam International and the Regional Disaster Information Center (CRID) for their collaboration and active participation. In the same way, we should like to express thanks for the support and collaboration in this initiative of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation and its Humanitarian Action Office, since a significant part of these activities have been funded by AECID in the framework of a project to improve response in the event of disasters in the Americas Region.
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