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Created in 2007, the Humanitarian Response Index(/humanitarian-response-index/?phpMyAdmin=15c4ce8dfebt3948e8dfr8ab8) (HRI) works to promote good donor practice and contribute to greater transparency and accountability of humanitarian action. Our goal is to ensure the right aid gets to the right people at the right time. 
The HRI is the world’s only independent watchdog for monitoring and assessing the quality, performance and accountability of  humanitarian and foreign assistance provided by the world's main donor government donors.  The HRI is based on extensive field research to crisis hotspots like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, interviews with hundreds of senior aid workers, and extensive analysis of aid data and statistics.  By providing an independent assessment and evidence on how donor governments perform, the HRI helps civil society and policy makers benchmark how well government humanitarian assistance meets the needs of people affected by disasters and conflicts. As such the HRI contributes to international efforts to improve aid effectiveness, transparency, accountability and impact of relief and recovery efforts.
The HRI is an independent exercise that is not funded by any government in order to maintain the impartiality and independence of our research and analysis.
Over the past five years, many of issues and concerns raised by HRI reports, such as politization of aid, or the lack of attention to gender issues in relief efforts, have now become part of the international aid reform agenda. Many of our recommendations have been followed-up by governments and aid agencies, and the HRI has become an indispensable reference on aid issues for aid and civil society organizations, academics and researchers, and the media.  
The next phase of the HRI will expand our analysis to review the growing role and importance of new and emerging government donors such as Brazil, China or Saudi Arabia, as well as how well private sector, non-profit organizations and charitable foundations apply good donor practices in post-disaster response and recovery efforts.