Two new reports from ODI highlight the critical opportunity for integrating disaster resilience across emerging international policy frameworks and the set of options for including it in post-2015 goals.

Rio +20 will focus on pivotal environmental, economic and social issues for the future. ODI work will respond to the key debates taking place at this crucial conference.

Ministers from across the globe, from both developing and donor countries, government representatives, parliamentarians, civil society organisations and private sector representatives have come together for the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea, from 29 November to 1 December 2011.

ODI has produced a range of inputs of relevance to HLF-4, to inform debates and reflect on the challenges and opportunities for policy-makers and the development community. The Busan meeting follows previous conferences in Accra and Paris. These meetings delivered the Accra Agenda for Action and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. 

We are also producing short audio commentaries throughout the conference. 

The UN has designated the situation in Somalia the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world.  An estimated 12.4 million people across the Horn of Africa are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. 

ODI's work responding to the famine has been led by the Humanitarian Policy Group and has investigated:

• why early warning didn’t translate into early action;
• the effectiveness of the humanitarian response;
• issues around access to water and food aid;
• what can be learnt from previous famines in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere to inform the current response.