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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...
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.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Sri Lanka
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. It is present in 166 countries working with them on their own solutions to global and...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Kazakhstan
The United National Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. On the ground in 166 countries, UNDP works with them on their own solutions to global...
VIDA USA (Volunteers for Inter-American Development Assistance)
VIDA has been serving underprivileged communities in Latin America since 1991 by providing them with medicines, medical supplies and equipment donated to us by San Francisco Bay Area hospitals, clinics and individuals. Through such donations we helped to provide care for over 4 million people in...
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Bangladesh
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is an international aid agency that works with communities and governments in 190 countries for the survival, development and protection of children worldwide. In Bangladesh, UNICEF's activities include emergency flood relief, immunization and nutritional...
British Embassy in Quito, Ecuador
The British Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, contributes towards development and technical assistance programmes in Ecuador. The Embassy finances several projects focused in areas such as human rights, drug trafficking, organized crime, countering terrorism and weapons, climate change, the environment...
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...
Hope International Ministries
Hope International Ministries is a crisis relief agency that started in 2003. It provides necessities for families or individuals in need. It provides by donating them such items as food, clothing, toys, baby items, dishes and household items, furniture, appliances, transitional housing, employment...
Krishna Veni Mahila Mandali
Krishna Veni Mahila Mandali is a non-profit women's welfare association helping with the developments in rural and urban slums where poverty is a major problem. It provides education and training, health care, food, spiritual, moral and physical support to the Indian communities.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International - Ecuador
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International is an independent humanitarian agency committed to individual and community development, and disaster relief. ADRA helps people in need, particularly women, children, and the elderly. ADRA serves people regardless of ethnic,...
Procter & Gamble (P&G)
P&G brands serve about 4.4 billion of the nearly seven billion people on the planet today. Through P&G's Live, Learn & Thrive cause program the company is focused on social investments committed to improving the lives of children and youth around the world. It participates in programs...
Guardian Angels Inc.
Guardian Angels Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable organisation striving to alleviate the pain and suffering of families in need locally and in developing countries around the world. Guardian Angels solicits surplus medical, surgical, diagnostic and therapeutic medical supplies and equipment and...
BITRA Indonesia - The Activator for Rural Progress
BITRA Indonesia implements activities to promote a participative, sustainable, and social transformation towards the creation of egalitarian and democratic societies, specifically looking at economy, politics and professional independence.
Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia)
The Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI - Friends of the Earth Indonesia) is the largest forum of non-governmental and community-based organisations in Indonesia. It is represented in 25 provinces and has over 438 member organisations. WALHI works towards social transformation, people's...
SOS Children's Villages - Turkey
SOS Kinderdorf International (SOS) is made up of a network of over one hundred associations. SOS is best known for their Children's Villages which provide a permanent, stable home to children who have either lost their parents or are unable to live with their parents. The first SOS community, SOS...
Center for Disaster Management (CENDIM)
Center for Disaster Management (CENDIM) is an interdisciplinary research centre for disaster management. The Center works with national and international organisations to develop disaster, engineering and risk management plans and to facilitate information sharing with governmental,...
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) - Kazakhstan
Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged outside the country. The mission of CRS globally is to: a) provide direct aid to poor and disadvantaged people; b) involve people in their own development, helping them to...
Bulgarian Red Cross
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organisation, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable...