| AID POLICY: Seeing where the money goes |
 | LONDON، 4/7/2012 (IRIN) - Commuters on the London Underground may have looked up from their newspapers recently and found themselves looking into the dark, wistful eyes of an African or Asian child. For just 50 pence - well under a dollar - a day, the child sponsorship advertisements promise, you can change this child’s life, and you can do it today, right now, just by sending a text message. full report |
| AID POLICY: Accountability – what’s in a word? |
 | DUBAI، 4/7/2012 (IRIN) - The concept of “accountability”, like much humanitarian vocabulary, can be complex and elusive. Some organizations, like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) do not even like using the word. full report |
| AID POLICY: Accountability in Islam |
 | DUBAI، 4/7/2012 (IRIN) - The rights-based framework may only have been formally adopted by the international humanitarian and development community in the past decade; but the concept that people in need have a right to assistance has existed in the Muslim world since the birth of Islam. full report |
| AID POLICY: Sexual exploitation and abuse 10 years on |
 | DAKAR، 4/7/2012 (IRIN) - How much has really changed since NGO Save the Children, and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) published a report that shocked humanitarian agencies a decade ago, when it exposed sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) perpetrated on disaster-affected communities in West Africa by aid workers, peacekeepers and other community members? full report |
| AID POLICY: Stepping up to prevention |
 | DAKAR، 4/7/2012 (IRIN) - IRIN surveys the development of policy and practice since the launch of a ground-breaking report in 2002, in terms of preventing the perpetration of sexual abuse by humanitarian aid workers and their associates. full report |
| AID POLICY: Refugees in Kenya call for more effective aid delivery |
 | DADAAB، 4/7/2012 (IRIN) - Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya's northeastern Dadaab refugee camp depend on aid to meet all their basic needs; while they are grateful for the help and the relative security the settlement provides, many feel the aid could be managed in more effective ways. full report |
| AID POLICY: Accountability in action |
 | DUBAI، 4/7/2012 (IRIN) - Accountability has become a buzz word in the aid industry in recent years, but in the eyes of many aid workers, it remains a luxury they cannot afford given the pressures and constraints of working in the field. full report |
| How To: Put accountability into practice |
 | DUBAI، 4/7/2012 (IRIN) - At the highest levels, humanitarian aid agencies are increasingly realizing the importance of being accountable to the people they are trying to help, with several important developments on the policy front in the last decade. But as field staff try to put the lofty concepts into practice, they face many challenges, from the basic (people don’t always understand the word “complaint”) to the complex (how to be accountable when managing a project remotely due to insecurity). full report |
| DISPLACEMENT: Older people face greater burdens |
 | NAIROBI، 4/7/2012 (IRIN) - When violence broke out in Kenya in 2008 after a disputed presidential poll, 71-year-old Magdalene Njeri's hometown of Kericho in Rift Valley Province was one of the areas most affected by the violence; while others ran for safety, Njeri, too frail to flee, came under attack by rampaging youths. full report |
| FOOD: More milk and meat at a price |
 | JOHANNESBURG، 5/7/2012 (IRIN) - Only 13 diseases or infections transmitted from animals to humans like tuberculosis (TB) and Rift Valley fever, are responsible for around 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths per year, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. full report |
| SOMALIA: Fighting displaces thousands in Middle Shabelle |
 | MOGADISHU، 5/7/2012 (IRIN) - Hundreds of families from villages in Somalia's Bal'ad District, in Middle Shabelle Region, have been displaced following recent fighting between African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces and Al-Shabab insurgents, say officials. full report |