IDSC04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: People In Aid, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International, Sphere Project
6 Feb 2018
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Some of the key drivers for the development of self-regulatory regimes include (slides 3- Increasing aid volumes to humanitarian and relief efforts as a result of natural disasters and armed conflict. Channeling humanitarian and relief aid through ngos. Recognition among ngo aid workers, from experiences in the balkans, rwanda, haiti and elsewhere, that they need to be more effective and to ensure downward accountability to beneficiaries in addition to upward accountability to donors. Increase in the number of codes of conduct since 1990s. Self-regulatory mechanisms that operate at the individual and agency level that establish norms for behaviours and standards for practice. May include verification mechanisms in which organizations voluntarily agree to some form of self-assessment, peer review or third party assessment. Since the 1990s, codes of conduct have mushroomed. We are going to look at three sets of standards icrc code of conduct.
