Observatoire de l'action humanitaire

Introduction
1/ Criteria of ideological involvement and political neutrality
2/ Criteria of financial independence and transparency
3/ Criterion of the capacity to be self-critical, or politically aware
4/ "Humanitarian intelligence"

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Introduction

Five criteria are proposed to describe a humanitarian NGO and to analyse its strategic position in an armed conflict:

1) the ideological involvement;
2) the political neutrality in the field of action;
3) the proportion of public and private funds;
4) the transparency;
5) the analytical capacity to be self-critical, or politically aware.

These parameters are different from the ones generally used by donors, namely: administration and programmes expenses, the capacity to react quickly to emergencies, the logistics involved, a good financial management, etc.

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