Aid and International Development Forum 2012 Washington D.C

Building partnerships for relief and development

Workshop reports

Below are the available reports from the Aid & International Development Forum (AIDF) 2010.

  • Climate Change: Innovation, Effectiveness and Accountability

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    Leaders fail when they prepare for battles they have fought before and not the one that is about to come, according to panel moderator Charlie Ansbach, Managing Partner, Skystone Ryan.

  • Communication Strategies for Aid and Development Organizations

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    “Communications plays a valuable role in building support for aid,” said Ben Barber, Senior Writer and Editorial Director of USAID’s Frontlines magazine.

  • CSR Communications

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    The telecommunications sector has been driving corporate social responsibility (CSR) according to David Hartshorn, Secretary General of Global Vsat Forum, an international nonprofit association of the satellite industry.

  • Emergency Telecommunications Cluster

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    In major emergencies that require a joint response by several UN agencies, it is essential to ensure coordination to have a system in place, which allows telecommunication services to be set up quickly and efficiently.

  • Empowering Local Communities: Education and Gender Equity (MDG 2 & 3)

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    Access to energy service is the ‘missing’ Millennium Development Goal (MDG). A consensus is growing that without greater access to affordable, reliable, clean energy, MDGs will not be fully achieved. 

  • Finance and Development

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    Financial resources are crucial to humanitarian relief and development. Organizations must find out how much funding is needed, raise funds to be able to implement their projects, and all the while keeping in mind project sustainability for the future.

  • Haiti Future Development

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    UN Special Envoy to Haiti, former President Bill Clinton has said that the task in earthquake-ravaged Haiti is “to build back better.” However, orchestrating relief in Haiti, especially long-term rebuilding, has been very difficult.

  • Haiti: Assessment and Lessons Learned

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    Haiti’s January 12 earthquake was a significant natural disaster, with a large death toll. The earthquake left more than 1.5 million people without shelter, and its capital, Port au Prince, was reduced to rubble. Various logistical problems are slowing down the rebuilding efforts in Haiti: space, debris and the upcoming hurricane season.

  • Logistics and Procurement

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    Professional procurement and logistics operations are crucial to delivering successful aid and development projects.

  • MDG 1:  How to address extreme poverty and hunger

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    The UN has created eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the overarching purpose of ending world poverty by 2015. The first MDG is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Several factors affect poverty and hunger in the developing world, including food security and access to food, access to fuel, and environmental degradation.

  • MDG 8: Global Partnerships for Development

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    Global partnerships are formed when business interests align with development interests in developing countries. Many multinational corporations are already doing business in a developing country, and have established a presence.  Public-private alliances are a market-based approach to achieve joint objectives.

  • Moving from Disaster Relief to Long Term Development

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    After a disaster strikes, there is usually an immediate response from relief organizations. Those organizations focus on short-term relief, while re-development and re-building are long-term propositions. Long-term development moves past stabilization of the affected population to rebuilding and instituting sustainable practices.

  • Opening session

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    To open the conference, Karen Turner, Director, Office of Development Partners (ODP) at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), addressed how her agency views the role of partnerships in executing its mission.

  • Optimizing Technology and ICTs

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    Keith Robertory, Disaster Services Technology Manager with the American Red Cross opened the session with interesting comments on disasters and technology.
    Disasters, by definition, affect individuals and civilizations. They disrupt the normal routine of life and can be measured by lives lost, families torn apart, homes and buildings devastated, transportation and communication networks made silent, and economic opportunities lost.

  • Procurement Network and Pitch Tank Sessions

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    The Procurement Network and Pitch Tank Sessions took place when the workshops concluded on both Thursday and Friday. The purpose of the network session was to improve understanding among government, UN, and NGO organizations, procurement agencies and companies supplying goods and services to the aid, humanitarian relief and development sectors.

  • The Darfur Diaries: How Mediation Can Deliver Justice in the Face of Intractable Conflicts

    Event 2010 - Published on 06 August 2010

    “Justice is not only what we deliver, but the process we use along the way,” said Johnston Barkat, Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Ombudsman and Mediation Services, during his keynote discussion on how mediation and conflict resolution work to ensure justice in the developing world.

  • Transport

    Event 2010 - Published on 09 August 2010

    Transportation takes up a large portion of NGOs’ planning and budgets. In order to deliver medical supplies to countries in need, Doug Jackson, President of Project C.U.R.E. emphasized that transportation is absolutely essential for Project C.U.R.E to fulfill its mission.