Videos

Muhammad Sharif Bhat, Programme manager for Save the Children.
Language:

Who are you and what is your job?
What is it like to work with ECHO?
What are the challenges of your work?
How do you see ECHO working in the field?

Cees Wittebrood , Head of Unit - ECHO B3 - East, West and Southern Africa, Indian Ocean, Based in headquarter, Brussels.
Interviewed in 2012. Language:

Who are you and what is your job?
Tell us about your best experience
What is your strongest memory?
What do you believe to be important for humanitarian aid in the future?

Jan Eijkenaar , Coordinator for Sahel - Based in Dakar.
Interviewed in 2009. Language:

Who are you and what is your job?
Tell us about your best experience
What is your strongest memory?
What do you believe to be important for humanitarian aid in the future?

Vicente Raimundo, ECHO's Livelihood Expert, based in Managua, Nicaragua. Interviewed in Moyale, Kenya, 2010. Language:

Vicente explains the innovative ways ECHO and its partners help local people bridge the gap between rains in drought-stricken, Northern Kenya

Daniel Ureña, ECHO's Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) expert in Haiti, based in Port-au-Prince. Language:

Can you summarise the history, logic, aims and objectives of the DRR interventions that ECHO has been funding in Haiti?
He explains ECHO's DRR efforts long before the 2010 earthquake as well as the increased vulnerability of the population in its aftermath. Taking into consideration how highly prone Haiti is to natural disasters (annual cyclones, heavy rainy seasons and the ever-present risk of earthquakes), Daniel explains the necessity of well thought out DRR strategies that involve a change in the behaviour and mentality of Haitians and their authorities towards natural disasters

Esko Kentrschynskyj, ECHO's Head of Operations for Latin America and the Carribean, based in Brussels.
Interviewed in Bogota, November 2011. Language:

How did ECHO's disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects help when tropical depression E-12 hit Central America this year?
ECHO's Head of Operations for Latin America and the Carribean explains the fundamental importance of promoting DRR activities in the region, citing the benefits and timeliness ECHO's recent DRR projects in preparing populations for the E-12 tropical depression that flooded many parts of Central America in October and November of 2011. Besides providing 4 million euro in emergency assistance to the populations most affected by this disaster, ECHO invests over €10 million in Disaster Preparedness in the region.

Inma VAZQUEZ, Expert in Sudan, based in Khartoum.
Interviewed in Brussels HQ, June 2011. Language:

Who are you and where do you work?
What type of crisis do you monitor in Sudan?
What work is ECHO supporting there?
What have been your worst work-related memories?
Did you experiment lack of security linked to your work?

Johan Heffinck, Rapid Response Coordinator (Regional Support Office) based in Amman, Jordan.
Interviewed in Brussels HQ, June 2011. Language:

Who are you and what is your job?
What is your role?
What type of needs are there in your region?
What have been your strongest work-related memories?
What have been your worst work-related memories?

Vitor Serrano, expert based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Interviewed on mission in Cambodia, June 2010. Langue:

Please tell us about yourself?
Please explain the project you are showing us here in Cambodia?
Why is this project so important to the people of this particular area?
What has the reaction been of the local population to this project?
Why do you believe this project was so successful?

Pierre-Yves, expert based in Jordania at the time of the interview (Summer 2010), based now in Nairobi. Language:

Who are you and what is your background?
What type of crises do you monitor in Yemen?
How are the European Commission funds spent in Yemen?
What are the challenges?

Marie-Theres, Health Expert and focal point for Cambodia, based in Bangkok.
She visited ECHO funded projects in Cambodia which provide humanitarian assistance to victims of Typhoon Ketsana. Language:

Who are you and what do you do?
How was the project in this part of Cambodia implemented?
What motivates you to work for ECHO?

Dr Torben Bruhn, Medical expert based in Nairobi.
Interviewed in Manicaland, Zimbabwe, May 2010. Language:

Who are you and what do you like about your job?
What are you doing on this mission?
What makes your job worthwhile and why are doctors needed in this kind of work?

Peter Zangl, former Director General of ECHO based in Brussels, Belgium (2007-2011).
Interviewed in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, May 2010. Language:

Who are you and what do you do?
What support is ECHO providing here?
What are your impressions of Dadaab?

Philippe, head of Somalia office, based in Nairobi.
Interviewed in Burtinle, Somalia, April 2010. Language:

Who are you and what do you do?
What are you doing on this mission?
What support are we giving to the IDPs in Somalia?
What motivates you to work in Somalia?

Marilena, Technical Expert based in Juba, South Sudan.
Interviewed in Rumbek, March 2010. Language:

Who are you and what is your background?
What is it like to work in South Sudan?
What have you been looking at whilst on mission?
What is your personal motivation for doing this work?

Corinna, Expert based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Interviewed in Betou on the Ubangui river in the Republic of Congo, February 2010. Language:

Who are you and what do you do?
How difficult is it to deliver humanitarian relief in such a remote area?
What difference is humanitarian aid making in the Republic of Congo?

Nicolas, Expert based in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Interviewed in Ndedu, eastern DRC, January 2010. Language:

Who are you and what is your background?
What work is ECHO supporting in Ndedu?
How difficult is it to work in the DRC?

Muriel, Expert based in Bangui, Central African Republic.
Interviewed in south-west CAR, November 2009. Language:

Who are you and what do you do?
What is the Central African Republic like?
What are you doing here in the south-west of the country?
What are the challenges working in CAR?

Regina, Programme Officer based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Interviewed in Kenya, November 2009. Language:

Her testimony

Borja, Expert based in Harare, Zimbabwe, focusing on disaster risk reduction across Southern Africa.
Interviewed in Malawi, October 2009. Language:

Who are you and where are you working?
What does your job consist of?
What work have you been doing in Malawi?
What is rewarding about your job?

Peter Zangl, former Director general of ECHO based in Brussels, Belgium (2007-20011).
Interviewed in Haiti, December 2008. Language:

His testimony from Haiti

Cees Wittebrood, Head of Unit A1 in ECHO based in Brussels, Belgium.
Interviewed in Haiti, December 2008. Language:

His testimony from Haiti

Daniel, Program officer based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Interviewed in Haiti, December 2008. Language:

Who are you? What's the objective of your mission in Haiti?
How are the European Commission funds spent in Haiti?
Daniel's testimony on the nutritional situation in Haiti

Daniel, Regional Information Officer based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Interviewed in the field, November 2008. Language:

Who are you and what is your background?
What is it that motivates you in your work?
A testimony on the humanitarian situation in DRC

Vicente, Head of ECHO's office for Caribbean in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Interviewed in Brussels, October 2008. Language:

Who are you? Where are you working?
What have been your strongest work-related memories?
How do you cope with human suffering?
What do you think personally about the threat to the humanitarian space ?

Peter, Head of Regional Support Office in Managua, Nicaragua.
Interviewed in Brussels, October 2008. Language:

Who are you? Where are you working?
What have been your strongest work-related memories?
What have been your worst work-related memories?

Damien, Expert based in Quito, Ecuador.
Interviewed in Brussels, October 2008. Language:

Who are you? Where are you working?
What type of crises do you monitor in your region?
What is your role and the Commission's role?
What have been your strongest work-related memories?
How do you cope with human suffering?