Disasters and humanitarian affairs
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Key issues in emergency needs assessment
Over 50 representatives from governments, multilateral agencies, NGOs, regional bodies, research institutes and consultancy firms gathered at WFP's Rome headquarters in October 2003 for the third technical consultation on strengthening emergency needs assessments. A series of technical workshops...
Business Contributions to UN Emergency Relief Efforts: An Orientation Guide
Business Contributions to UN Emergency Relief Efforts: An Orientation Guide describes the role of various UN agencies during an emergency, and identifies ways in which companies can support relief efforts in a timely and appropriate manner, through cash contributions, in-kind donations, or...
ACT Guiding Principles on Material Aid
ACT Guiding Principles on Material Aid, a policy guide, outlines ACT International's principles on material aid donations, the responsibilities of donors and implementing ACT members, and specifications relating to particular material aid categories.
Guiding Principles for Philanthropic Private Sector Engagement in Humanitarian Action
The Guiding Principles for Philanthropic Private Sector Engagement in Humanitarian Action, a crosscutting set of guiding principles, is aimed at fostering commitment from the private sector for preparedness and relief activities. The document lists ten principles for the private sector to follow.
ECHO Manual for the Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid
ECHO Manual for the Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid provides the evaluation practice, methods, and theory utilised by the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) to assess humanitarian aid operations.
Quality of Money: Donor Behaviour in Humanitarian Financing
Quality of Money: Donor Behaviour in Humanitarian Financing, a report, discusses the factors involved in steering donor behaviour for international humanitarian action. The report states that the lack of standard donor definitions, priorities, time-frames, and reporting requirements places the onus...
Child care: an essential service for disaster recovery
Extensive research has documented that the provision of child care services is essential to the economic health and vitality of a community. In disaster situations, when the economic life of local communities virtually grinds to a halt, workers with young children cannot resume their jobs unless...
Code of Conduct for NGOs engaged in Humanitarian Action, Reconstruction, and Development in Afghanistan
Code of Conduct for NGOs engaged in Humanitarian Action, Reconstruction, and Development in Afghanistan is aimed at promoting improved understanding of NGOs in Afghanistan, their purposes, and their accomplishments among the general public, government, donors and the media. The principles of...
Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporate Donors
Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporate Donors, a report based upon lessons learned from a year-long study by a joint working group of the European Foundation Centre and the Council on Foundations, suggests that grant-makers can be more effective and strategic in...
Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami: Synthesis Report
Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean tsunami: Synthesis Report examines the successes and failures as well as the constraints within which the response occurred between the first eight and 11 months of the response. It does this by distilling the findings and learning...
Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI)
Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI), operated under a grant from USAID and IBM, is a resource for the public, as well as US government agencies, foreign embassies and international corporations. The website provides guidelines for giving effective material donations to relief...
Joining Forces for Change: Demonstrating Innovation and Impact through UN-Business Partnerships
Joining Forces for Change: Demonstrating Innovation and Impact through UN-Business Partnerships, a publication by the UN Global Compact Office, presents a case for partnering with the UN in addition to listing case studies of successful UN-business partnerships. The partnerships presented in the...
BOND Listing of Quality Standards, Codes and Inititatives
BOND Listing of Quality Standards, Codes and Inititatives, produced by the British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND), provides web links to approximately forty codes, frameworks, agreements and other documents relating to quality standards for NGOs.
The politics of principle: the principles of humanitarian action in practice
This report is the synthesis report of an independent study by ODI into humanitarian principles. In recent years there has been an outpouring of reflection on principles by humanitarian agencies, and attempts in several countries by groups of agencies to develop a more explicitly ‘principled’...
Cash and vouchers in emergencies
This paper is the final product of a three-year research project looking into when the option of giving people money instead of, or as well as, in-kind assistance is feasible and appropriate. A strong body of evidence is starting to emerge to indicate that providing people with cash or vouchers...
Emergency Field Handbook: A Guide for UNICEF Staff
The Emergency Field Handbook is structured around UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies. These commitments outline the organisation’s role in providing protection and assistance to children and women. They make a clear distinction between life-saving interventions that should be...
Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Situations - A Quick Guide for Effective Donations
Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Situations - A Quick Guide for Effective Donations, a guidebook, is designed to assist donors and recipients to make decisions that will have the greatest long-term benefit to countries affected by natural or complex disasters.
Handbook for emergencies, second edition
Effective emergency preparedness and response is a major priority of UNHCR. Crises have caused widespread human suffering and put great demands on UNHCR, prompting them to develop an effective response mechanism. Having dispatched over 300 missions throughout the world since 1992, UNHCR now has in...
Guidelines for Emergency Humanitarian Assistance Project Proposals and Reports
The Guidelines for Emergency Humanitarian Assistance Project Proposals and Reports are for agencies seeking emergency funds to support short-term international humanitarian assistance. The guidelines clarify the types of projects for which they have been developed (ie. short-term responsive...
Quality and Accountability Initiatives: Questions and Answers
Quality and Accountability Initiatives: Questions and Answers, a web resource page, speaks to four of the most widely known inter-agency initiatives to improve accountability, quality and performance in humanitarian action: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian...