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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 Out Loud 5 - Focus on: Vulnerability in Humanitarian Crisis
23 May 2007VOICE out loudThis issue looks at vulnerability in humanitarian crises from a few angles, including assistance to IDPs, gender based violence in conflict, disability in emergencies and the needs of persons with trauma and psycho-social disabilities, indigenous persons' needs. IN the view on the EU, World Vision asks if the EU's evolving crisis capabilities are good news for those in crisis, and Mission East gives the picture from Afghanistan. -
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VOICE Statement on the Humanitarian Aid Policy of the European Union - March 2007
01 March 2007VOICE position papers -
VOICE Out Loud 4 - Focus on: LRRD
01 December 2006VOICE out loudThis issue looks at linking relief rehabilitation and development from different and angles, including education, food aid, complex emergencies, communities, and disaster risk reduction. CARE asks if there is enough funding for humanitarian emergencies, and Premiere Urgence gives the field perspective from Iraq. -
The strengthening of EU crisis capabilities. What impact on humanitarian aid
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VOICE ICRC Round Table Minutes - December 2006
01 December 2006VOICE event reports -
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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 -
