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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
CARE International
www.care.org/
CARE
helps communities prepare for emergencies as well as provide food, water,
shelter and health care to survivors of natural disasters and armed
conflicts. CARE's rehabilitation programs include landmine removal and
awareness, refugee repatriation and conflict resolution.
The website
offers press releases, CARE reports, and access to various publications.
Potentially
useful tools and guidelines can be found at the following:
http://www.care.org/programs_backup/health/tools.html
Children's Health, Reproductive Health, Water, Sanitation, and
Environmental Health
http://www.care.org/forms/search.html
Use the site search: to find information about specific projects (by
type, country), evaluations, etc.
Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) primarily serves as the
national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control,
environmental health, and health promotion and education activities.
Website
includes wide array of information on health topics,
data and
statistics (mostly U.S.), publications
(many on-line), and in-house trainings. Use the search engine to
get to documents and links of specific interest.
Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) often includes international
articles. Use the search
engine to find specific articles or browse by subject.
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ierh/IECDProgram.htm
The International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch (IECD) Program
serves the international community as a technical resource in international
public health and epidemiology and has supplied short-term consultations to
international relief organizations working in emergencies.
Web page
offers list of publications that can be ordered or (if MMWR) can be
found on-line. Topics are: communicable diseases, water / sanitation,
nutrition, general. Publications are also listed country specific. Famine-Affected,
Refugee, and Displaced Populations: Recommendations for Public Health
Issues is available on line.
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ierh/IECDProgram.htm
CDC International Emergency Capacity Development Program provides
education and experience in the public health and epidemiological aspects
of international emergencies for a cohort of junior and mid-level
professional CDC staff. Website offers program information
and a list of online publications on mental health, nutrition, and
surveillance from IECD work experience.
The Centre for Research on the
Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
http://www.cred.be/centre/intro.html
The main
focus of the Centre is on safeguards, public health and the sanitation
aspects of disaster. CRED also studies the socio-economic and
long-term effects of these large-scale disasters. CRED's activities
cover applied research, the development of management tools, logistics and
training.
Website
includes information about CRED, brief summaries of current projects,
information about courses, and access to a list of orderable publications
and online
publications. Publications are available in English, French,
or Spanish and cover a variety of emergency and health issues.
http://www.cred.be/emdat/
EM-DAT: The main objective of the OFDA/CRED International
Disaster Database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at
national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalize
decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an
objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting.
·
Disaster
Databases contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of
over 12,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present.; Submit your
email address for future updates and click on Continue to download
databases in zip format. Check out Glossary
for definitions of terms common to disaster information and Guidelines,
which helps explain the information and format of the database.
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Summary Data
contains various statistical reports, figures and tables, highlighting
various aspects of disasters. Disaster
Profiles and Map Center are currently limited to natural disasters
but are set to include conflict related material in the future. Search
Engine and Emergency Documentation are currently in development and
unusable. Links
page offers access to UN agencies and various other organizations working
in disaster relief.
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