Humanitarian and emergency assistance
- Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies
- HelpAge International, 2013
- In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributio...
- ADB's new thinking and mainstreaming of innovative engagement in fragile situations
- P. Safran / Asian Development Bank, 2012
- One in every four of the world’s people lives in fragile and conflicted settings. This handbook is an Asian-based attempt to encourage new thinking and mainstreaming of innovative engagement in fragile situations. The...
- Sex and age matter - Improving humanitarian response in emergencies
- P Benelli / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2011
- To ensure that vulnerabilities, needs and access to life-saving services are best understood and responded to, humanitarian actors must collect information based on sex and age. When this data is lacking, it limits the effectiveness o...
- Belize Red Cross Society
- In the Caribbean, the national Red Cross societies are assisted by the International Federation Secretariat, with regional offices based in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic, with support from the Americas Zone Office based in Panama. The IFRC secretariat provides services that include international coordination of disaster relief, capacity-building of National Societi...
- How can disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation be integrated?
- T. Mitchell; M. van Aalst; P.S. Villanueva / Eldis Community, 2010
- This paper reviews the extent of convergence between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) at a number of scales. It also examines what is at stake if the two agendas do not converge. The authors present up...
- Strengthening the 2004 Tsunami-affected population’s resilience to future disasters
- A. Bhattacharjee; M. Bhatt; T. Vaux / Reliefweb, 2010
- This review report from the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) examines whether its vision of a more long-lasting impact had been achieved in terms of strengthening the 2004 Tsunami-affected population’s resilience to future en...
- Older people in emergencies are more vulnerable than others
- HelpAge International, 2011
- When disaster strikes, older people are among the most vulnerable to neglect, injury, death and disease, yet their needs are often overlooked. This report sets out the scale and nature of this problem and makes recommendations for cha...
- How to make humanitarian responses evidence-driven
- D. Mazurana (ed); P. Benelli (ed); H. Gupta (ed) / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2011
- Humanitarian aid is largely guided by anecdotes rather than evidence. Currently, the humanitarian system shows significant weaknesses in data collection, analysis and response in all stages of a crisis or emergency. As a result,...
- Putting emergency reponses at the core of UK Government policy
- Department for International Development, UK, 2011
- The? scale,? frequency? and? severity? of? rapid? onset? humanitarian? disasters will? continue? to? grow? in? the? coming? years,? due to a number of factors - including rapid? population? growth,? especially? in? disaster? prone? ar...
- Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
- Organisation working to build safe communities for vulnerable populations
- Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies
- HelpAge International, 2013
- In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributio...
- ADB's new thinking and mainstreaming of innovative engagement in fragile situations
- P. Safran / Asian Development Bank, 2012
- One in every four of the world’s people lives in fragile and conflicted settings. This handbook is an Asian-based attempt to encourage new thinking and mainstreaming of innovative engagement in fragile situations. The...
- Sex and age matter - Improving humanitarian response in emergencies
- P Benelli / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2011
- To ensure that vulnerabilities, needs and access to life-saving services are best understood and responded to, humanitarian actors must collect information based on sex and age. When this data is lacking, it limits the effectiveness o...
- How can disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation be integrated?
- T. Mitchell; M. van Aalst; P.S. Villanueva / Eldis Community, 2010
- This paper reviews the extent of convergence between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) at a number of scales. It also examines what is at stake if the two agendas do not converge. The authors present up...
- Strengthening the 2004 Tsunami-affected population’s resilience to future disasters
- A. Bhattacharjee; M. Bhatt; T. Vaux / Reliefweb, 2010
- This review report from the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) examines whether its vision of a more long-lasting impact had been achieved in terms of strengthening the 2004 Tsunami-affected population’s resilience to future en...
- Older people in emergencies are more vulnerable than others
- HelpAge International, 2011
- When disaster strikes, older people are among the most vulnerable to neglect, injury, death and disease, yet their needs are often overlooked. This report sets out the scale and nature of this problem and makes recommendations for cha...
- How to make humanitarian responses evidence-driven
- D. Mazurana (ed); P. Benelli (ed); H. Gupta (ed) / Feinstein International Center, USA, 2011
- Humanitarian aid is largely guided by anecdotes rather than evidence. Currently, the humanitarian system shows significant weaknesses in data collection, analysis and response in all stages of a crisis or emergency. As a result,...
- Putting emergency reponses at the core of UK Government policy
- Department for International Development, UK, 2011
- The? scale,? frequency? and? severity? of? rapid? onset? humanitarian? disasters will? continue? to? grow? in? the? coming? years,? due to a number of factors - including rapid? population? growth,? especially? in? disaster? prone? ar...
- Considering stabilisation efforts and humanitarian action
- S. Collinson (ed); S. Elhawary (ed); R. Muggah (ed) / Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2010
- Stabilization includes a combination of military, humanitarian, political and economic activities to control, contain and manage areas affected by armed conflict and complex emergencies. This paper explores the evolution of internatio...
- Reviewing the role of World Bank post-disaster cash transfers in Asia
- R. Heltberg / Development Policy Review, 2007
- This article reviews major cash transfers to households as a mean of social protection in a number of Asian countries. Looking at Turkey, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Pakistan in particular, the author indicates the role which the...
- Belize Red Cross Society
- In the Caribbean, the national Red Cross societies are assisted by the International Federation Secretariat, with regional offices based in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic, with support from the Americas Zone Office based in Panama. The IFRC secretariat provides services that include international coordination of disaster relief, capacity-building of National Societi...
- Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
- Organisation working to build safe communities for vulnerable populations
- IRIN PlusNews
- PlusNews is the global online HIV and AIDS news service of the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). It is the most comprehensive source of original reporting on the pandemic, providing a professionally produced, one-stop information service for cutting-edge, but jargon-free news and analysis on HIV and AIDS in four languages - English, French, Portuguese a...
- Health Action in Crises, WHO (HAC)
- Through its Health Action in Crises project the World Health Organisation seeks to work with member states, international partners, and local institutions to help communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies, disasters and crises.
- PreventionWeb
- A product from the UN/ISDR PreventionWeb.net is a website aimed at increasing knowledge sharing on disaster risk reduction (DRR) issues. It is stated that it provides a common tool for both specialists and non-specialists interested or working in DRR to connect, exchange experiences and share information at all levels of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction: local...
- Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
- CRED promotes research, training, and information dissemination on disasters, with a special focus on public health, epidemiology, structural and socio-economic aspects. It aims to enhance the effectiveness of developing countries' disaster management capabilities as well as fostering policy-oriented research.
- National alliance for disaster risk reduction (NADRR) (NADRR)
- Indian platform for community-led disaster reduction initiatives
- International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) (UNISDR)
- Promoting links and the coordination of disaster reduction activities
- Center on International Cooperation, New York University (CIC)
- Research institute on international humanitarian response and global security
- Feinstein International Center, USA
- The Feinstein International Center's mission statement includes a commitment to develop and promote operational and policy responses to protect and strengthen the lives and livelihoods of people living in crisis-affected and marginalized communities who are impacted by violence, malnutrition, loss of assets or forced migration. It aims to work globally in partnership with nationa...
