Resources for Slow Onset Crises and Rapid Onset Disasters

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• The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), a USAID-funded activity, collaborates with international, regional and national partners to provide timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability information on emerging and evolving food security issues.

• The Overseas Development Institute (ODI), an independent think tank focused on humanitarian and development policy, publishes briefing papers such as Taking drought into account: Addressing chronic vulnerability among pastoralists in the Horn of Africa, which argues that the effects of recurrent catastrophes can be averted if pastoralist livelihoods are supported with timely and appropriate livelihoods-based interventions. Another ODI publication, Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, is case study-based and contains extensive references and links. Disasters, an ODI journal, provides a forum for high-quality research and practice concerning natural catastrophes, anthropogenic disasters, complex political emergencies and protracted crises around the world. The journal promotes the exchange of ideas and experience, maintaining a balance between field reports, case study articles of general interest and academic papers.

• The Reuters AlertNet is a humanitarian news network based around a popular website that aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe. AlertNet attracts around four million users a year, has a network of four hundred contributing humanitarian organizations and sends its weekly email digest to more than 17,000 readers.

• ReliefWeb is a leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An independent vehicle of information designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while also emphasizing the coverage of forgotten emergencies at the same time. OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, administers ReliefWeb.

• The United Nations Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS) provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters and tools to facilitate response coordination such as media monitoring, map catalogues and a Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Center to facilitate decision-making for an international response to major disasters. Subscribers can receive real time, user-created e-mail and sms messages about critical situation updates during disaster response operations.

• The European Commission on Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection (ECHO) works with NGOs, UN agencies and other organizations to provide emergency assistance and relief to the victims of natural disasters or armed conflict. ECHO ensures that goods and services get to crisis zones fast. ECHO also conducts feasibility studies; monitors humanitarian projects; promotes and coordinates disaster prevention measures and provides technical assistance.

• The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters promotes a strategic and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities and risks to hazards and identifies ways to build the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.

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