ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands
A new proposal from the UN has caused a flurry of comment but is missing the point about accountability in aid. An independent commission proposed by the outgoing UN humanitarian chief risks creating a tick-box process without changing practices on the ground.
Mark Lowcock, near the end of his tenure as head of the UN’s humanitarian wing, OCHA, said last month: “I have reached the conclusion that one of the biggest failings of the humanitarian system is that agencies do not pay enough attention to what people caught up in crises say they want.”
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by David Prior
Former Liverpool Echo editor Alastair Machray has joined the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), the independent regulator for the UK s newspaper and magazine industry.
Machray edited the Echo between 2005 and 2020, leaving late last year in a senior management reshuffle by Reach.
He joins IPSO s Complaints Committee as an editorial member.
Machray, who also edited the Liverpool Daily Post and Welsh Daily Post in a career that began in 1979, was appointed an MBE for services to local journalism in the Queen’s Birthday honours last year.
Machray said: I am passionate about a free, yet responsible, press. IPSO is, I believe, the way to ensure and sustain that.