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Throughout the year, VOICE produces and disseminates key documents reflecting on humanitarian aid issues at the EU level and from an NGO perspective. They are addressed to decision-makers within the European institutions, at the National level, to NGO networks and other stakeholders of the humanitarian community, as well as to the VOICE members. Some documents are produced by the VOICE Secretariat with the support of VOICE members while others are publications from members and other key stakeholders in the humanitarian sector.
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VOICE SEMINAR “Strategic Resourcing in Humanitarian NGOs: Towards the Coexistence of Professionalism and Voluntarism?”
01 July 2006VOICE event reportsThe objective of the seminar organised in association with People In Aid - was to raise awareness of the main issues relating to professionalism and voluntarism in humanitarian aid and to debate the role that voluntarism can play in filling the human resource gap in the humanitarian sector. -
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FUTURE CHALLENGES TO EU HUMANITARIAN AID AND NGOs, Roundtable Madrid - 2006.
01 June 2006VOICE event reportsThis Round Table aimed at engaging the VOICE Board (SCHA), senior management level of VOICE member organizations and other relevant humanitarian actors in a dialogue on relevant EC policy issues related to EU humanitarian aid, with a special emphasis on the Spanish NGO environment.
VOICE has organised similar events with the French NGO community (Paris, October 2005) and the UK NGO community (London, February 2006). A closed session between the VOICE Board and the Spanish VOICE member organisations was held before the open session.
This Roundtable has been organised in cooperation with Coordinadora, the Spanish platform of aid NGOs, with the financial support of EC DG Humanitarian Aid. Some 35 representatives of Spanish NGOs participated in this event.
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VOICE Out Loud 3 - Focus on: Humanitarian NGOs in a changing world
01 May 2006VOICE out loudThis edition looks at a variety of challenges for humanitarian NGOs in a changing world, and includes the view from Congo and Occupied Palestinian Territories:
- complex crises and preserving a particular NGO identify
- public perceptions of NGOs 'when you represent the enemy'
- instrumentalisation of NGO identity
- legitimacy and cooperation with the military
- UN humanitarian reform
- legislation affecting NGOs
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Russian Law on NGOs: Impact on European Humanitarian Aid in the Northern Caucasus
01 February 2006VOICE position papersOn the eve of the third Round of the EU-Russia human rights consultations on 3 March 2016, VOICE drew the attention of EU decision makers to the negative impact which the Russian Federal Law on Non-Governmental and Non-for-profit Organisations was likely to have on the delivery of humanitarian aid in the Northern Caucasus. -
VOICE Round Table London 2006
01 February 2006VOICE event reportsROUNDTABLE in UK London, 3 February 2006
VOICE organised a roundtable on "Civil military relations and civil protection" and on 'Conclusions from the UK Presidency of the EU and the future Peace and Security Agenda?', including contributions by DG ECHO, DFID, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and VOICE SCHA Member Rainer Lucht.
The meeting was organised with the support of Save the Children UK and took place at their premises. As with the previous round table organized in Paris in October 2005, it was a good opportunity to familiarize SCHA members with the British NGO concerns and for informal networking with our members and the wider humanitarian NGO community in the UK. This event was supported by the EC through its Humanitarian Aid department -
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VOICE Statement - HA in the Northern Caucasus
01 February 2006VOICE position papers -
VOICE Out Loud 2 - Focus on: Transparency and accountability of humanitarian NGOs
01 December 2005VOICE out loudIn this edition, different aspects of transparency and accountability are examined. Looking at how NGOs deal with funds from the public, to how they work in consortia for more transparency, to the importance of talking with beneficiaries, different quality standards under development, assessing the Tsunami intervention and the European humanitarian voluntary corps. We also hear from our members in Chechnya. -
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INFORMATION PACK: Tsunami One Year After: NGO Aid Intervention and Future Challenges - by VOICE and CONCORD - November 2005
01 November 2005VOICE studies and briefing papers -
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ECHO-NGOs Framework Partnership Agreement - Towards a strengthened partnership - November 2005
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Table Ronde VOICE - compte rendu - Paris - 4OCT2005
01 October 2005VOICE event reports -
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Round Table Tsunami 4 months - minutes - 28APR2005
01 April 2005VOICE event reports -
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BRIEFING: Partners in Humanitarian Aid: The FPA consultation as a model of EC partnership with NGOs - 2004
01 December 2004VOICE studies and briefing papersThis briefing takes stock of the NGO-ECHO relationship, looking at "Partnership" in the context of the consultation process and the monitoring of the Framework Partnership Agreement from the early 1990s through 2004. Gives a history and describes the impact of the FPA Watch Group on partnership as well as on the contract, and offers recommendations for the future of the Watch Group and for relations between ECHO and its NGO partners.
