Supporting documents

In this section you will find documents and useful links to help you manage your DG ECHO-financed action. Documents have been selected and in some cases produced by punto.sud, and are by no means expressing the official views of the DG ECHO.

If you want to share best practices, information and documents with us and the other organisations involved in humanitarian aid, please contact us and we will include them on this website.

• Partnership

• Preparing an action

• Implementing an action

• Other useful links

• Case studies and tools on accountability (HAP)
• Standard in Quality & Accountability (HAP)
• Practical suggestions for NGOs to manage their Accountability (Listen First)

• VOICE - Voluntary Organisations in Cooperation in Emergencies
• HPN - Humanitarian Practice Network, a forum for improving humanitarian action

• DG ECHO financing decisions

• Sphere handbook
• Sphere training material
• Alerting humanitarians to emergencies [AlertNet]
• ReliefWeb

• ODI - Overseas Development Institute
• IRIN - Humanitarian news and Analysis
• International Crisis Group - Conflict prevention and resolution

• Real-time evaluations of humanitarian action. An ALNAP Guide
• DG ECHO evaluation guide on Humanitarian Aid
• An introduction to DG ECHO evaluation

• Children in emergencies and crisis situation
• Civil protection
• Civil-military coordination
• Gender
• Emergency health assistance
• Protection
• Water, sanitation and hygiene

• International Crisis Group - Conflict prevention and resolution
• EM-DAT - The International Emergency Disasters Database

• Protection - An ALNAP Guide for Humanitarian Agencies
• Resources on the situation of forced migrants worldwide (FMO)
• Protection of Internally Displaced Persons (ATHA)

• The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)
• Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre
• Responding to earthquakes 2008.Learning from earthquake relief and recovery operations (ALNAP)
• Flood disasters. Learning from previous relief and recovery operations (ALNAP)

• Participation by Crisis-affected Populations in Humanitarian Action Practitioners' Handbook (ALNAP)
• Global Humanitarian Assistance
• Good Humanitarian Donorship