Inter-Parliamentary Union

Works towards good governance

http://www.ipu.org/english/home.htm

Institute for Global Policy

The Institute for Global Policy monitors the United Nations: lucky folks!

http://www.inglobalpolicy.org

Some good papers on accountability

BLEWITT, R., 2005. Good donorship: how serious are the donors? Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (29): 4-6.

BRABANT, K., 2000. Regaining perspective: the debate over quality assurance and accountability. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (17): 22-25.

COLLISON, D., 2003. Corporate propaganda: its implications for accounting and accountability. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 16 (5): 853-886.

DAVIS, A., 2003. Accountability and humanitarian actors: speculations and questions. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (24): 16-18.

LEADER, N., 1999. Codes of conduct: who needs them? Relief and Rehabilitation Network Newsletter, no.13: 1-4.

MACRAE, J. AND HARMER, A., 2003. Good humanitarian donorship: a mouse or a lion? Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (24): 9-12.

MITCHELL, J., 2003. Accountability: the three-lane highway. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (24): 2-4.

WILLITTS, B., 2005. The EU: good humanitarian donorship and the world’s biggest humanitarian donor. Humanitarian Exchange, 1 (29): 10-13.

Governance Resource Centre

Global network for information exchange on good governance

http://www.grc-exchange.org/index.html

SPHERE Standards

The internationally agreed minimum standards for humanitarian response may still not be fully adhered to or monitored by those who subscribe to them, but they represent a powerful complement to the Red Cross standards and practical guideline for minimal performance standards in a number of technocentric areas of disaster response

http://www.sphereproject.org/

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP)

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitarian action represents a supurb and growing body of knowledge on humanitarian interventions with a particular emphasis on impact assessment and participation by crisis affected populations. They also occasionally issue calls for papers.

http://www.alnap.org/

Humanitarian Practice Network

 

Part of the ODI in London, HPN is published by the Humanitarian Practice Group: an unrivalled source of literature and research on everything humanitarian. HPN is their tool for connecting the experiences of humanitarian practitioners.

www.odihpn.org

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance

Continually updated, specialises in civil-military interactions in emergencies.

http://www.coe-dmha.org/ (Home)  http://www.coe-dmha.org/infoman.htm (News)