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Good Humanitarian Donorship
Background to GHDIn the development field, donors have worked together since the 1960s to define good practice and promote aid coordination. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has provided one of the main forums for this work. Humanitarian aid, however, did not form part of these debates. In the mid-1990s, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the Red Cross and
United Nations (UN) agencies involved in humanitarian assistance decided to
create their own specific guidelines. They undertook the important work of defining their responsibilities under
international law, and setting standards against which they could be
accountable. The outcomes of this work included the The GHD initiative provides a forum for donors to discuss good practice in Humanitarian Financing and other shared concerns. By defining principles and standards it provides both a framework to guide official humanitarian aid and a mechanism for encouraging greater donor accountability. A meeting held in Stockholm in 2003 brought together donor countries, United Nations (UN) agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It agreed on a set of
Annual meetings have reviewed progress and agreed future directions. Read the outcomes of these meetings in annual meetings and documents.
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