DISCUSSION
Availability of Resources & Reports
A fundamental difficulty with this study is that it relies on the toolkits, guidelines, reports and other documents publicly accessible from the organization websites. This introduces the very real possibility (indeed, likelihood) that these documents are not a representative sample of the work being done by these organizations. However, one could reasonably assume that the documents publicly accessible (and therefore included in this study) were selected to be posted online based on their quality, their relevance to current humanitarian crises, or their treatment of current issues in humanitarian aid, and are therefore worthy of consideration here.
Two types of documents were sought for inclusion in this study: (see Chart 1)
- Documents such as guidelines or toolkits which outline prescribed practices to be used in the field when carrying out a particular stage of the program cycle; and
- reports, such as assessments, appraisals, or evaluations of actual aid responses or programs carried out by the organization.
Ports in the Storm 