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Purpose
This Code of Conduct seeks to guard our standards of behaviour. It is not about operational details, such as how one should calculate food rations or set up a refugee camp. Rather, it seeks to maintain the high standards of independence, effectiveness and impact to which disaster response NGOs and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement aspires. It is a voluntary code, enforced by the will of organisation accepting it to maintain the standards laid down in the Code.

In the event of armed conflict, the present Code of Conduct will be interpreted and applied in conformity with international humanitarian law.

The Code of Conduct is presented first. Attached to it are three annexes, describing the working environment that we would like to see created by Host Governments, Donor Governments and Intergovernmental Organisations in order to facilitate the effecti ve delivery of humanitarian assistance.




 Introduction
Purpose
  Definitions
  The Code of Conduct
  Code of Conduct signatories
  The Working Environment
  Annex 1:
Recommendations to the governments of disaster affected countries
  Annex 2:
Recommendations to donor governments
  Annex 3:
Recommendations to intergovernmental organisations
  Registration Form