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Guide for Effective Aid - Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO)
The South American branch of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has prepared a set of guidelines to assist relief organisations in sending effective aid to support disasters. The guidelines advise on what a relief organisation should do immediately after a disaster. Also listed are items that...
Technology Donation Guidelines
These guidelines refer to an American community school, but may be useful to donors who wish to donate technological hardware to NGOs or similar organisations.
Samaritan's Purse International Relief (SPIR) - Donating Medical Materials
Samaritan's Purse has detailed guidelines for those donating medical items. Factors that should be taken into account include: equipment condition, intended use, maintenance requirements, and availability of parts or accessories. Although the guidelines are specific to the operations of this...
Medical Equipment Donation Guidelines
Medical Equipment Donation Guidelines provide a guide for those accepting and making medical equipment donations, and also useful for those planning to purchase medical equipment.
Guidelines for the Donation of Medications (GNPPLUS)
The Global Network of People living with Aids (GNPPLUS) has produced this document, which lists guidelines for donations of medicines. It refers to legal issues relating to both donors and recipients. It recommends that drugs should appear on the national Essential Drug List, or if no list is...
Pan American Health Organisation - The DO'S and DON'TS of Humanitarian Supplies Management
Preparing and dispatching donated supplies This section provides detailed guidelines on preparing, dispatching and receiving supplies. This includes suggestions for preparing a packing list and recommendations for packaging goods. Packaging guidelines suggest that donors "make parcels of a weight,...
Good Practice Reviews from the Overseas Development Institute
Good Practice Reviews from the Overseas Development Institute offers a series of good practice publications directed toward the humanitarian field.
Role of Employee Engagement in Disaster Response: Learning from Experience
Role of Employee Engagement in Disaster Response: Learning from Experience, a report, discusses the role of businesses in the relief, recovery and reconstruction process, of natural disasters. It presents an eight point plan for developing an employee engagement approach to disaster response....
Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)
Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) is a worldwide network dedicated to improving the quality and accountability of humanitarian action. ALNAP has a database which holds over 360 evaluative reports of humanitarian action and another database...
International Initiatives To Promote Responsible Business: A Navigation Guide for Business
International Initiatives To Promote Responsible Business: A Navigation Guide for Business provides a user-friendly and impartial guide to help businesses to navigate their way through this maze. It seeks to articulate the key aspects of three cross-industry initiatives: The OECD Guidelines for...
WHO Guidelines for Medicine Donations
WHO Guidelines for Drug Donations, updated in 2010, were developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in cooperation with major international humanitarian agencies. The Guidelines aim to improve the quality of medicine donations and are intended to serve as a basis for national or institutional...
Accord (formerly AERDO)
Accord™(formerly AERDO) is a catalyst for learning, collaboration and building Christ-centered unity around the shared vision of eliminating poverty. Accord™ serves Christian organizations and churches involved in this vision to achieve the highest standards, principles and effectiveness in relief...
Equator Principles
The Equator Principles (EPs) are a credit risk management framework for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social risk in project finance transactions. Project finance is often used to fund the development and construction of major infrastructure and industrial projects.The EPs...
How Can My Company Help? - A Guide for Country Managers in Responding to Natural Disasters
How Can My Company Help? - A Guide for Country Managers in Responding to Natural Disasters is intended to help companies prepare for a local corporate response to crises in their country or region. The guide includes information on building partnerships with relief agencies, assessing on-the-ground...
CRT Principles for Responsible Business
CRT Principles for Responsible Business set forth ethical norms for acceptable businesses behaviour. The principles are rooted in three ethical foundations for responsible business and for a fair and functioning society more generally, namely: responsible stewardship; living and working for mutual...
Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies Minimum Standards
Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies Minimum Standards express a committment to the notion that all individuals – children, youth and adults – have a right to education during emergencies, both natural and man-made. The standards are qualitative in nature and are intended to be...
Measuring the Impact of Humanitarian Aid: A Review of Current Practice
Measuring the Impact of Humanitarian Aid: A Review of Current Practice, a report of the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute, investigates the current state of the art in measuring and analysing the impact of humanitarian assistance. The report is concern with questions...
Pfizer Global Health Fellows: Expanding Access to Healthcare Through Cross-Sector Partnerships
Pfizer Global Health Fellows: Expanding Access to Healthcare Through Cross-Sector Partnerships, a case study, evaluates the response of Pfizer Inc. to the HIV/AIDs endemic. It focuses on the efforts of the its Fellows Program to support HIV/AIDS service NGOs in developing countries. In this...
Ceres Principles
Ceres Principles is a ten-point code of corporate environmental conduct publicly endorsed by companies as an environmental mission statement or ethic. Imbedded in that code of conduct is the mandate to report. By endorsing the Ceres Principles or adopting their own comparable code, companies not...
Business guide to partnering with NGOs and the United Nations: Executive Summary
Business guide to partnering with NGOs and the United Nations: Executive Summary, created in partnership between Dalberg, the UN Global Compact, and the Financial Times, provides an overview of the study of the partnership experiences of businesses with social actors - NGOs and UN agencies.