Mercy Corps, Merlin, Norwegian Peoples Aid, Norwegian Refugee Council, Pact, Population Services International, Relief International, Save the Children, Welthungerhilfe (German Agro‐Action), World Vision....."... "In conclusion, we?d like to highlight the following: • Dozens of international and local relief agencies along with foreign embassies are continually examining humanitarian aid delivery from inside Burma. They are able to do so independently and firsthand. 4 • The international humanitarian assistance delivered to date has been life‐saving and life sustaining for millions of cyclone survivors. It has reached them without significant interference. • INGOs in Myanmar work within constraints and continuously seek to address and put into place mechanisms that improve accountability, transparency and protection issues in a responsible manner . (A special working group, a Protection cluster, has been set up under the Inter Agency Standing Committee which seeks to address protection‐related issues.) • The effect of broadly misrepresenting the situation on the ground in the Delta after Cyclone Nargis through the EAT‐Johns Hopkins report can be to undermine the case for further aid to the survivors. Far from improving the situation, it will lead to significant further suffering for hundreds of thousands of people. Recovery from this massive disaster is still very tenuous. It is clear that aid needs to be ramped up to support the two million cyclone survivors who continue to struggle under grim conditions today. • The news release dated 27 February 2009 from EAT‐Johns Hopkins called for a review ?before further assistance is delivered.” None of the "voices" quoted in the EAT‐Johns Hopkins report, and none of the survivors that relief agencies have spoken to, are calling for such a pause in aid. To the contrary, the consistent "voice" of all the people in the Delta, in direct contradiction to the report, is "Please, don't abandon us". This strongest of voices is completely absent from the report. We owe it to the courageous survivors of Cyclone Nargis to collectively engage in helping them rebuild their lives. In the spirit of research and learning, we would welcome an opportunity to meet with the authors of the report to discuss their findings and concerns. In particular, we invite representatives from EAT and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to visit the Delta together to meet directly with cyclone survivors to hear their views on continued assistance. We believe our common efforts at reflection, debate and mutual accountability can ultimately serve to improve the lives of survivors in Myanmar during this most critical juncture..."