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The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination, including media monitoring, map catalogues and Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre.

Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide

Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide offers a set of guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations. The ‘good enough’ approach emphasises simple and practical solutions and encourages the user to...

Common Humanitarian Accountability Framework for IWG Agencies

Common Humanitarian Accountability Framework for IWG Agencies, a report, analyses the current understanding and practices within the member agencies in humanitarian accountability and examines how the agencies can take on board various existing international standards.

Coordination of International Humanitarian Assistance in Tsunami-Affected Countries

Coordination of International Humanitarian Assistance in Tsunami-Affected Countries is an evaluation of the international humanitarian assistance following the tsunami. This evaluation covers three countries: Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with some additional observations from Thailand....

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...

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.

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. ...

Orientation Handbook on Complex Emergencies

Orientation Handbook on Complex Emergencies, published by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provides an understanding of OCHA's role in the coordination of response to complex emergencies (primarily man-made), explain its relation to the rest of the humanitarian...

Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery

Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies Handbook, published by the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies, is a set of standards, indicators and guidance notes that articulate the minimum level of educational access and service to be attained in emergencies, through to early...

Relief Web - Israel page

The Relief Web is a UN project serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief world. The Web includes a country-by-country guide, with an entry for Israel. Topics include disaster history, vulnerable groups and other related information reported by different media and organisations. There...

UNOCHA Brussels Liaison Office

The OCHA Brussels Liaison Office was established in 2007 to promote humanitarian policies and strengthen partnerships with regional institutions including the European Union (EU), NATO, and the Secretariat for the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States. The Office focuses on policy matters...

OCHA Regional Office for Southern and East Africa (ROSEA)

As a part of the United Nations Secretariat, OCHA is responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure coherent responses to emergencies. OCHA works with governments and partners to coordinate both preparedness measures for potential emergencies as well as responses to current...

Quality COMPAS (COMPAS Qualité)

Quality COMPAS (COMPAS Qualité) is a quality assurance method which comes equipped with its own set of tools, training modules and consultancy services. These components have been designed specifically for aid agencies with the overall aim of improving services provided to crisis-affected...

Africa Data Dissemination Service (ADDS)

Africa Data Dissemination Service (ADDS) provides internet access to the data collected for the FEWS NET project. The FEWS NET is a multi-disciplinary project that collects, analyzes, and distributes regional, national, and sub-national information to decision makers about potential or current...

Poised for a Breakthrough? A Review of Significant Findings and Trends in Humanitarian Action

Poised for a Breakthrough? A Review of Significant Findings and Trends in Humanitarian Action, a report, analyses recent trends in humanitarian response. It discusses how humanitarian organisations implement crisis and disaster management and assesses the link between humanitarian principles and...

How can my company help? - a guide for country managers in responding to natural disasters

How Can My Company Help? is intended to help you prepare for a local corporate response to a crisis in your country or region. This guide includes information on: building partnerships with relief agencies, assessing on-the-ground needs, identifying the products, expertise, personnel and services...

Organizational Resilience: Security, Preparedness, and Continuity Management Systems - Requirements with Guidance for Use - American National Standards

Organizational Resilience: Security, Preparedness and Continuity Management Systems - Requirements with Guidance for Use provides an approach for organizations to improve their resilience performance and increase preparedness, according to ASIS.

Updates | ReliefWeb

This useful website by ReliefWeb is a freely accessible on-line database providing information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. Depending on a country’s emergency situation, ReliefWeb may post updates on a continuous (24-hour) basis.

OCHA Central Register

In December 1991, the General Assembly requested the United Nations to "establish a central register of all specialized personnel and teams of technical specialists, as well as relief supplies, equipment and services available within the United Nations system and from Governments and...

What is disaster recovery and how do you plan for it?

Every business needs a solid disaster recovery plan, and far too many don’t quite understand what this entails (or how simple it is to put one together).