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Action contre la Faim (ACF)
http://www.acf-fr.org/eng/homefm.htm
(English, French)
With offices
in Paris, Madrid, London and New York, Action Against Hunger works in 36
countries around the world. It intervenes through emergency relief
operations in situations of war, crisis, and famine in four keys sectors:
nutrition, health, water and food security.
Areas of
activity
show programs, techniques, and training in the above sectors and disaster
preparedness. Missions gives overview of country programs, history,
and context. News
provides access journal, bibliography of documents, and ACF news.
 http://www.aah-usa.org/research.html
Research link from Action Against Hunger USA site. Contains information on
four projects: 1)Groundwater Development (PRM Method), 2)Surface Water
Treatment Units, 3) Shallow Wells Continuous Chlorination, and 4)
Geographic Information System (GIS)
AlertNet
http://www.alertnet.org/
AlertNet
provides global news, communications and logistics services to the
international disaster relief community and the public.
Home page
presents daily updated news from member organizations and Reuters News
Service. The site also includes an international register of aid suppliers; an
information exchange for members (to apply to be a member visit members application);
databases of training,
events (diary),
and contacts in the relief community (AlertNet Members) and
background information relevant to disaster relief. Relief Resources
provide access to documents, articles, and links to sites on topics such as
satellite images, children and war, working in relief, refugees, and
technology. For specific inquiries use the search engine.
EURISY
http://www.eurisy.asso.fr/
EURISY
provides a vehicle for European agencies, governmental bodies, industrial
companies, institutions and similar organizations involved in scientific
and technological activities to act collectively in support of the
objectives including highlighting the contribution of scientific research
and fundamental training for the transfer of know-how towards operational
applications.
Website
includes information about association, conferences, and activities.
http://www.eurisy.asso.fr/events/humanitar/programme_sessions.htm
Provides program, summary, and links to papers from the September 2000
conference on the "Use of Satellites and Integrated Technologies for
Humanitarian Purposes.” Useful papers include:
The Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN)
http://www.gdin-international.org/default.html
GDIN is
a voluntary, independent, self-sustaining, non-profit association of
nations, organizations, and professionals, from all sectors of society with
an interest in sharing disaster information. GDIN will make better use of
existing and new technologies and negotiate institutional processes to
promote global sharing of disaster information between providers and users.
The
GDIN-International site provides information about
organization, projects, technology news,
and conference information. Projects provide information on
several projects funded by GDIN. REMAPS
(Relief Emergency Mapping System) project involves the development of a
prototype for a standard field-based mapping software application for
relief workers. A major component of this package is a Geographic
Information System (GIS). Core
Data Initiative is a project on standardizing the collection of
information to increase the feasibility of coordination and sharing of
essential operational information. Izmet Demonstration provides information on how to use
data sharing, GIS, and other technologies to reduce the impact of
disasters.
http://www.gdin-international.org/gdinproducts.html
GDIN Products provides a list of maps and relevant information.
http://www.gdin-international.org/wg/regpacific.html
Asia Pacific Regional Working Group.
New Zealand Digital Library (University of Waikato,
NZ)
http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library
The New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme at The
University of Waikato whose aim is to develop the underlying technology for
digital libraries and make it available publicly so that others can use it
to create their own collections.
Website provides access to several large document
collections including humanitarian and development information. Scroll down
to "humanitarian and UN collections” which includes the WHO –PAO Disaster Virtual Library and numerous other libraries.
Links to guides and manuals on health, medical, food, water, nutrition, and
development are downloadable. Search by subject, title, or organization.
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