Humanitarian Action and Development / Comment
Responding to Katrina: humanitarian aid principles overlooked and discounted?
04/10/2005 By Silvia Hidalgo
Hurricane Katrina has demonstrated that natural disasters also affect the most developed countries. It showed the fragility of the human settlements in the US and the lack of an efficient response to disasters.
It also pointed out the lack of a proactive risk management policy centred on the prevention, mitigation and reduction of the catastrophe.
In this comment Silvia Hidalgo analyses the response to a predicted emergency such as hurricane Katrina from a humanitarian perspective.
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Keywords
Aid effectiveness Aid management Aid policy United StatesBio author: Silvia Hidalgo
Silvia Hidalgo is the Director and one of the founders of DARA (Development Assistant Research Associates), an organisation focused on the evaluation and improvement of policy and practice in the area of humanitarian action and development. She is member of the European Evaluation Society and the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP).
