Survey Report
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| Publisher(s) | Pennsylvania State University (2008) |
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| Author(s) | Dr. Andrea Tapia |
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During the symposium questionaires were handed out questioning participants around four general themes: their employment, their relationships, support, and barriers to coordination.
These are the results
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http://cohort2.ist.psu.edu/content/Publications/2007OCHA_final_report.pdfPosted May 7th, 2008 by matslats
An Evaluation of Humanitarian Information Centers
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| Publisher(s) | DFID (2004) |
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| Author(s) | Lewis Sida, Chris Szpak |
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Humanitarian Information Centres are having a positive impact on their operating environment. They are widely used and there are few agencies that are not familiar with their products. If all they manage to do is provide some basic common data (such as standard village lists) there is value in this. The potential is far greater however.
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http://www.dfid.gov.uk/News/files/conflict_news/Final_HIC_Evaluation.pdfPosted February 7th, 2008 by matslats
Improving NGO coordination: lessons from the Bam earthquake
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| Publisher(s) | Overseas Development Institute (2003) |
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| Author(s) | Jenty Wood |
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In a recent lessons-learned meeting on the Bam earthquake in Iran, a polite and respectful colleague from the Iranian Ministry of Health related his frustration at international NGO coordination in the early days of the emergency. He said that, at the same time as he was desperately trying to set up field hospitals and bury the dead, representatives from over 100 international NGOs had individually requested meetings with him.
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http://www.odihpn.org/report.asp?id=2646Posted January 14th, 2008 by matslats
DesInventar
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There is huge number and variety of disaster databases in the world. So many, and so incomparable.
La RED made a new approach to disaster databases. They wanted to address this problem, not only by making a standard, but by measuring the impact of disasters from below, at the local level, rather than on the basis of each event.
DesInventar is a database schema and software to support it, which has now been implemented in 21 disaster prone areas all over the world as far as they know.
Posted November 14th, 2007 by matslats
OASIS
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This software, Operational Activity Security Information System, created by IMMAP and funded by the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (PM/WRA), U.S. Department of State, tracks security situations online so as to facilitate the delivery of aid and movement of humanitarian personel.
It was released in 2006, but there doesn't seem to be much information on it.
Posted October 29th, 2007 by matslats
Transitional Shelter Site Tracking project
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This simple web site does the simple job required of it. It is merely a public repository for assessment information, for shelter providors in Sri Lanka to see the larger picture.
It is technically simple, it uses too much acrobat, it's not clear who vets the information or how to submit it, but the fact that this information is published is the most important thing.
Why UNICEF is hosting this information and not the Sri Lanka HIC, isn't clear to me
Posted October 29th, 2007 by matslats
