Antonio Donini
Antonio Donini is a Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, Massachusetts, where he works on issues relating to humanitarianism and the future of
humanitarian action.
From 2002 till 2004, he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He has worked for 26 years in the United Nations in research, evaluation, and humanitarian capacities. His last post was as Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (1999-2002). Before going to Afghanistan he was chief of the Lessons Learned Unit at OCHA, where he managed a program of independent studies on the effectiveness of relief efforts in complex emergencies. He has published widely on evaluation, humanitarian, and UN reform issues.
In 2004, he co-edited the volume «Nation-Building Unravelled? Aid, Peace, and Justice in Afghanistan» (Kumarian Press) as well as several articles exploring the implications of the crises in Afghanistan and Iraq for the future of humanitarian action.
He has coordinated the Humanitarian Agenda 2015 research project which has analysed local perceptions of humanitarian action in 12 crisis countries, and in 2008, has authored the final HA 2015 report, «The State of the Humanitarian Enterprise». To find out more please the report, please visit http://fic.tufts.edu.
Since 2007, he has been involved in research in Nepal on conflict and post conflict issues.
humanitarian action.
From 2002 till 2004, he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He has worked for 26 years in the United Nations in research, evaluation, and humanitarian capacities. His last post was as Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (1999-2002). Before going to Afghanistan he was chief of the Lessons Learned Unit at OCHA, where he managed a program of independent studies on the effectiveness of relief efforts in complex emergencies. He has published widely on evaluation, humanitarian, and UN reform issues.
In 2004, he co-edited the volume «Nation-Building Unravelled? Aid, Peace, and Justice in Afghanistan» (Kumarian Press) as well as several articles exploring the implications of the crises in Afghanistan and Iraq for the future of humanitarian action.
He has coordinated the Humanitarian Agenda 2015 research project which has analysed local perceptions of humanitarian action in 12 crisis countries, and in 2008, has authored the final HA 2015 report, «The State of the Humanitarian Enterprise». To find out more please the report, please visit http://fic.tufts.edu.
Since 2007, he has been involved in research in Nepal on conflict and post conflict issues.
FIC, Tufts University, Research (presentation)
