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Brussels, 9.4.2010 SEC(2010)398 final COMMISSION STAFF WORKING PAPER Accompanying document to the REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Annual Report on the Humanitarian Aid Policy and its Implementation in 2009 COM(2010)138 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Policy Error: Reference source not found 1.1. Implementation of the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid Error: Reference source not found 1.2. International Humanitarian Law Error: Reference source not found 1.3. Coherence between humanitarian aid and other policies Error: Reference source not found 1.4. Good Humanitarian Donorship Error: Reference source not found 1.5. External relations questions Error: Reference source not found 1.6. Cross-cutting issues Error: Reference source not found 1.7. Aid effectiveness Error: Reference source not found 1.8. Sectoral policies Error: Reference source not found 1.9. Outlook 2010 Error: Reference source not found 2. Implementation of humanitarian aid in 2009 Error: Reference source not found 2.1. A needs-based approach Error: Reference source not found 2.2. Top 10 humanitarian crises in terms of funding allocations Error: Reference source not found 2.3. Africa Error: Reference source not found 2.4. Middle East and Mediterranean Error: Reference source not found 2.5. Caucasus and Central Asia Error: Reference source not found 2.6. Asia and the Pacific Error: Reference source not found 2.7. Latin America and the Caribbean Error: Reference source not found 2.8. Disaster preparedness activities, including DIPECHO Error: Reference source not found 2.9. Case studies on the launching of humanitarian aid Error: Reference source not found 3. Aid management Error: Reference source not found 3.1. Ways and means of delivering aid Error: Reference source not found 3.2. Co-ordination of humanitarian funds Error: Reference source not found 3.3. Evaluations Error: Reference source not found 3.4. Control of use of funds Error: Reference source not found 3.5. Co-operation with humanitarian aid's stakeholders Error: Reference source not found 3.6. Visibility and communication Error: Reference source not found 3.7. Security and safety issues Error: Reference source not found 3.8. Training Error: Reference source not found
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The European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid1 underlines the European Union's commitment to upholding and promoting the fundamental humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence and to promoting the respect of international law on humanitarian issues, human rights, and refugees. An Action Plan to implement the consensus was adopted on 29 May 20082. This sets out a series of practical actions to enable the European Union's humanitarian donors to take a more closely co-ordinated approach. The aim is to ensure that the European Union maximizes the effectiveness of its contribution to the collective international humanitarian response. The Action Plan To facilitate implementation, related actions have been grouped into six action areas: Area 1: Advocacy, promotion of humanitarian principles and international law Area 2: Implementing a quality aid approach Area 3: Reinforcing capacities to respond Area 4: Strengthening partnerships Area 5: Enhancing coherence and co-ordination Area 6: Aid continuum Implementation of the Action Plan is largely on track: out of 49 actions foreseen in the Plan, only seven still need to be implemented as of January 2010. Of these, two are scheduled to start by 2011-12. They concern measurability and participation of disaster-affected communities. A mid-term review is scheduled for 2010 and a final review will take place in 2012. Other actions, such as reviews of modalities for emergency decisions or of transition mechanisms, will also be carried out in 2010 and may become a part of legislative proposals. A few actions are experiencing slight delays, such as the European Commission's Good Humanitarian Donorship implementation plan, dissemination of material concerning humanitarian principles. Throughout 2009, the priority was implementation of the 2005 International Humanitarian Law guidelines and the development of sectoral policies. Most of the Action Plan will be implemented earlier than initially scheduled.
International humanitarian law is a set of rules which seeks to limit the effects of armed conflict on civilians. It protects people who are not actively involved in hostilities, or who have ceased to be involved. It restricts the means and methods of warfare. International humanitarian law is also known as the law of war or the law of armed conflict. International humanitarian law is part of international law, the body of rules governing relations between states. International law is contained in agreements between states – treaties or conventions – in rules which consist of state practice that they consider legally binding, and in general principles. International humanitarian law applies to armed conflicts. It does not regulate whether a state can actually use force. This is governed by an important, but distinct, part of international law set out in the United Nations Charter. The Commission and Member States have worked to implement commitments made in the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid and at the 2008 Brussels Conference on International Humanitarian Law. However, the situation on the ground is worsening. The potential list of countries whose governments simply do not abide by the law is getting longer. A particularly gruesome aspect of such violations is the increasing use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, particularly in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). ECHO is working on a systematic approach to integrate all gender issues into its humanitarian operations. Meanwhile, humanitarian aid operations in the countries concerned will build this aspect into their response strategies. Advocacy for the protection of the humanitarian space must continue unabated. Numerous governments continue to disregard commitments made in the Geneva Conventions. Such problems need ongoing political impetus if the Commission and the EU are to make progress in what is, admittedly, an extremely challenging area3.
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