Humanitarian response to natural disasters: a synthesis of evaluation findings How to reform the international humanitarian system and use lessons learnt? Authors: K. Stokke Publisher: Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2007 This synthesis report on the lessons learned in the field of humanitarian response to natural disasters is intended to provide input to ongoing processes, including the preventive efforts of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to provide basic information for interested actors in the humanitarian sector. The report states that despite the rising number of evaluations of humanitarian operations and meta-analyses of the international humanitarian system, the evaluations and lessons learned have a tendency to remain fragmented and case-specific. The main findings of this report are:...
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