UK starts multi-billion pound review of humanitarian assistance
admin July 16th, 2010
There have been two interesting developments in the past few days relating to the new UK government’s thinking on disasters and disaster relief.
On Wednesday the Financial Times’s Westminster blog speculated that Lord (Paddy) Ashdown was to be appointed by incoming DFID minister Andrew Mitchell to a new humanitarian role as Chair of the Emergency Response Review – and that appointment was confirmed later in the day. And on Thursday DFID itself announced a major tender to review both its humanitarian policy and its delivery.
The review of humanitarian funding has been widely expected. And, according to the FT blog, “It will involve looking at how UK emergency aid is functioning and how it could be improved.” Not before time, many involved in the provision of emergency relief would argue.
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