A massive earthquake, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale  jolts the entire east and north of India and Nepal on Sunday the 18^th September 2011. While tremors were felt  as far as Delhi, UP, Pachim Bongo, Orissa and Nepal, the epicenter of the quake was Mangan – a village, 65 kms away from Gangtok, Sikkim.

NEW NATIONAL BOARD OF CASA FORMED FOR THE QUADRENNIUM 2011-2014

CASA is pleased to announce the reconstitution and formation of the National Board and various other committees at the national level, as well as Zonal Committee of East, South and West Zones for the quadrennium 2011-2014.  The Society of CASA, as per the Constitution, forms the National Board once in 4 years, and the National Board elects the Officers of CASA and also approves the reconstitution of the Zonal Committees with the participation of the member Churches.

Today, HAP International welcomes Dr Raven-Roberts as its new Executive Director.

Dr Raven-Roberts has over twenty years experience in the international humanitarian and development field, as a practitioner and advocate within the United Nations and the NGOs community, as well as an academic. She began her international career in Papua New Guinea with Voluntary Services Overseas and managed humanitarian and development programmes for Oxfam America and Save the Children USA in Ethiopia for several years. In 1991, she joined UNICEF in New York as a Senior Project Officer in the Office of Emergency Programmes, where she was responsible for policy development in gender and conflict issues, post-conflict recovery programmes and internally displaced children. From 1998 until 2002, she was the Director of Academic Programmes at the Feinstein International Famine Centre, where she managed the design of the first Master’s of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance (MAHA) degree in the USA, developed specialist courses on gender, culture and humanitarian assistance and led several successful humanitarian initiatives with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard and other universities. She returned to UNICEF in 2005, this time in Geneva, as the Regional Emergency Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States.

With its Headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland, HAP International runs the leading global quality assurance scheme for humanitarian agencies. Established in 2003, HAP (Humanitarian Accountability Partnership) International is the humanitarian sector first international self-regulatory body. Members of HAP are committed to meeting the highest standards of accountability and quality management. In addition, HAP certifies those members that comply with the HAP Standard in Humanitarian Accountability and Quality Management, providing assurance to disaster survivors, staff, volunteers, host authorities and donors that the agency will deliver the best humanitarian service possible in each situation.