Participant Project Descriptions [1726k]

Symposium Follow-up Reports:

New technologies, new challenges: information management, coordination and agency independence
Author: Robin Schofield
Source: Overseas Development Institute
Date: 6 Aug 2002

Information Sharing Vital to Humanitarian Response
Author: David Carden - IRIN
Date: 6 Mar 2002

Agencies urged to use technology and share info
Author: Mark Jones - AlertNet
Date: 8 Feb 2002

Humanitarian Information Centres

Afghanistan: Information management to play key role in aid work
Author: UN OCHA Integrated Regional Information Network
Date: 9 Jan 2002

Information Exchange for Humanitarian Coordination in the Horn of Africa
Author: Ben Watkins
Date: 21 Nov 2001
Publication: Humanitarian Practices Network

Humanitarian Information Centres: Establishing Coherent Approaches to Field-Based Information Management in Emergencies
Author: Paul Currion, consultant to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) 
Date: Mar 2001

Proposal for the Creation of a Regional Data and Information Management Support Unit:   (for the Horn of Africa)
Authors: Ben Watkins (OCHA) and Giorgio Sartori (UNDP-Somalia)
Date: 20 Nov 2000

Discussion Note: Institutional Arrangements for the Humanitarian Information Centre
Author: Ben Watkins (OCHA)
Date: Mar 2001

Information systems in humanitarian emergencies
Author: Robin Schofield
Date: 1 Apr 2001
Publication: Humanitarian Exchange, March 2001

Learning from Kosovo: the Humanitarian Community Information Centre (HCIC),
Year One
Author: Paul Currion
Date: 6 Apr 2001
Publication: Humanitarian Exchange, March 2001

Kosovo Brief: Information Management offers a new opportunity for cooperation between civilian and military entities
Authors: Col. Michael J. Dziedzic and Dr. William B. Wood
Date: 9 Aug 2000
Publication: US Institute of Peace

Information and Networks

Humanitarian action does not depend on media coverage
Author: Ruth Gidley
Source: AlertNet
Date: 31 Oct 2002

Transparency in Partnerships Fuels ReliefWeb Success
Author: Alta Haggarty
Date: 4 Feb 2002

Effective International Response to Internal Displacement relies on good information from the field
Author: Global IDP Project
Date: 28 Jan 2002

ProVention Damage and Needs Assessment Toolkit: (for additional information visit website)

Disaster Assessment and Response - USAID Field Operations Guide (chaper 2 "Assessments")
Author: USAID/OFDA
Date: 1994

Disaster Assessment - UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination Field Handbook, Chapter E (pdf)
Author: UN OCHA/UNDAC
Date: Aug 2000

Post-Disaster Damage and Needs Analysis - Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (pdf)
Author: Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Date: 28 Apr 2000

A Guide to Successful Damage and Needs Assessment - South Pacific Reduction Programme (PDF)
Author: Angelika Planitz
Date: Oct 1999

Rapid Appraisal Survey Form - Example (pdf)
Author: UNHCR
Date: 24 Jun 1999

Manual for Estimating the Socio-Economic Effects of Natural Disasters (pdf)
Author: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Programme Planning and Operations Division (ECLAC)
Date: 1991

Guide to Disaster Management Assessment - UN Disaster Management Training Program (pdf)
Author: R.S. Stephenson, Ph.D.
Date: 1994

Structured Humanitarian Assistance Reporting

Paying the Ultimate Price: Analysis of the deaths of humanitarian aid workers (1997-2001)  (Use of the SHARE approach for documenting and analyzing data on deaths of humanitarian workers)
Author: Dennis King, UN OCHA
Date:15 Jan 2002

The SHARE (Structured Humanitarian Assistance Reporting) Approach
Authors: Dennis King (OCHA) and Maxx Dilley (University of Wisconsin Disaster Management Facility)
Date: 24 May 2001

Discussion Paper on Applications of the SHARE approach. Presentation to the Global Disaster Information Network Conference, March 2001, Canberra, Australia (in PDF format)
Author: Dennis King (UNICEF)
Date: 21 Mar 2001

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