Natural Disasters

Every animate and inanimate form lives in and with nature.

Alguns Links:

Should Haiti earthquake donation be subject to UK deductions? NGOs, field workers & all involved look at http://www.nodeductions4haiti.org/ - let friends worldwide know.

Strategies, techniques and tools to prepare and conduct a needs assessment

NGO Management School Switzerland (NMS)

Course date: 8-12 February
Place: Geneva, Switzerland

Hey all,

Since my last post I've co-founded a new disaster recovery charity that is considering beginning work in the Asia-Pacific region early next year.

Mail us at communications@cdrn.org.in to help you highlight needs or call us at 011-65422890 and we will walk you through the process

A young, international and multidisciplinary group of students, the Food Aid Team of the European Masters Degree in Food Studies, have decided to handle the problems of provision of food during humani

A very comprehensive resource that complements AWN's advice pages - take a look. Culled from the Dev-Zone Development email list.

To All 9/11 First Responder Heroes!!

I am writing this thread because I ask for your help to my dissertation study aiming improvement in disaster management effectiveness.

Update on Media Spokesperson Training.

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This is a forwarded message on behalf of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership group:

DEVELOPMENT FROM DISASTER:
SCALING-UP OWNER-DRIVEN RECONSTRUCTION - INVITATION TO CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP

Each year, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies releases a World Disasters Report, which looks at each year's challenges and opportunities re

Humanitarian aid workers responding to devastating flooding in Honduras have received assistance from space, with satellite images of affected areas provided rapidly following activation of the Intern

DRM has been a topic that has come up a couple of times on the forum lately. I thought that this workshop might be of interest to those who work in this field.

Foreign Policy has an interesting interview with Conor Foley, touching on humanitarian reform.

Call for Papers for ISCRAM2009
6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
May 10-13, 2009, Göteborg, Sweden
http://www.iscram.org

Brussels, -- NATO EADRCC and the Aidmatrix Foundation announced their agreement to set up a partnership to help NATO EADRCC meet the challenge of managing donations in civil disaster scenarios.

Assessing Local Capacity and Reconstruction
Assistance in Post-tsunami Aceh

Report of the Aceh Community Assistance
Research Project (ACARP)
December 2007

Participating Agencies