Humanitarian accountability 2 Accountability: the three-lane highway 4 Putting the ‘H’ back into humanitarian accountability 7 The accountability of states in humanitarian response 9 Good Humanitarian Donorship: a mouse or a lion? 13 West Africa scandal points to need for humanitarian watchdog 16 Accountability and humanitarian actors: speculations and questions
Practice and policy notes 19 Meeting humanitarian need in post-conflict environments 21 Microfinance in war-affected countries: challenging the myths 25 Rebuilding health services after conflict: lessons from East Timor and Afghanistan 28 Public Expenditure Management and humanitarian response 31 Geographic information systems in food security and demining programmes 33 The road to good donorship: the UK’s humanitarian assistance
Endpiece 37 Some thoughts on the conflict in Iraq