Aidworkers Network - www.aidworkers.net
An internet-based initiative providing practical advice, ideas,
support, best practice and training by aid workers for aid
workers.AlertNet - www.alertnet.org
Run by the Reuters Foundation this is an internet service for
the relief community alerting humanitarian bodies to international
emergency situations and news.
Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre
(ADPC) - www.adpc.net
ADPC is a non-profit organization supporting the advancement
of safer communities and sustainable development, through
implementing programs and projects that reduce the impact
of disasters upon countries and communities in Asia and the
Pacific
AsiaLink - www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/cpp/myer
An Australia-Asia mental health consortium, aiming through
collaboration and capacity building, to construct new and
strengthen existing partnerships with mental health leaders
across the Asia-Pacific region for the improvement of mental
health care and promotion, and effective service delivery
in the region.
Australian Agency for International Development
(AusAID) - www.ausaid.gov.au
AusAID is responsible for the management of the official
Australian Government Overseas Aid Program. It aims to help
developing countries reduce poverty and achieve sustainable
development, in line with Australia's national interest.
Australian
Council for International Development (ACFID) - www.acfid.asn.auu
ACFID is an independent national association of Australian
non-government organisations (NGOs) working in the field of
international aid and development. ACFID administers a Code
of Conduct committing members to high standards of integrity
and accountability.
Australian Development Gateway (ADG) - www.developmentgateway.com.au
The ADG is a knowledge-sharing website supporting people who
work in the Asia-Pacific region. It strives to support members
of the development community in their efforts to reduce poverty
and enhance sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region
Center
for Disease Control (CDC) - www.cdc.gov
This leading US agency gives advice to WHO and other international
organisations on specific health issues globally. A critical
supporter and sponsor of the work of the Antares Foundation
Centre
for Humanitarian Psychology - www.humanitarian-psy.org
The Centre is an international organisation whose aim is to
provide psychological support to humanitarian workers in
the field. e-mail support service They also operate a team
of volunteer counselors with humanitarian experience who
are at aid workers' disposal to listen, share and inform
with complete discretion and confidentiality, and following
the norms professional standards. The team answers in English,
French and Spanish. Write to them at: support@humanitarian-psy.org
Centre
for International Mental Health (CIMH) - www.cimh.unimelb.edu.au
The Centre for International Mental Health is dedicated to
research, teaching and policy reform in the field of mental
health, in Australia and the broader international community.
Dev
Zone - www.dev-zone.org
An Aotearoa New Zealand non-governmental resource centre on
international development and global issues providing information
and educational services to people and agencies operating
in fields of overseas aid and development.
Emergency Management
Australia (EMA) - www.ema.gov.au
Provides national leadership in the development of measures
to reduce risk to communities and manage the consequences
of disasters.
Global Development Network (GDN) - www.gdnet.org
A worldwide network of research and policy institutes working
together to address the challenges of national and regional
development.
Headington Institute - www.headington-institute.org
The Headington Institute (based in the USA) provides psychological
and spiritual support to humanitarian relief and development
personnel worldwide.
Humanitarian Early Warning Service - www.hewsweb.org
The IASC Humanitarian Early Warning Service (HEWSweb) is an
inter-agency partnership project aimed at establishing a
common platform for humanitarian early warnings and forecasts
for natural hazards and socio-political developments worldwide.
Humanitarian
Practice Network (HPN) - www.odihpn.org
The Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) is an independent
forum where field workers, managers and policymakers in the
humanitarian sector share information, analysis and experience.
Interhealth - www.interhealth.org.uk
InterHealth is a medical charity providing specialist health
services to aid, development, NGO and mission organisations.
International
Crisis Group (ICG) - www.crisisweb.org
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit,
non-governmental organization on five continents, working
through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy
to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. Subscribers can
receive
regular
crisis update reports and contextual analyses of conflicts.
Lonely
Planet - www.lonelyplanet.com
An international publisher of travel information in print
and online. Lonely Planet provides travellers with reliable,
comprehensive and independent travel information. Publications
include travel guide books, phrase books, activity guides
and maps.
MapAction - www.mapaction.org
MapAction specialises in the mapping of disaster areas and
supplying geographical information for humanitarian relief
operations using the latest geographical information system
(GIS) technology.
National Geographic - www.nationalgeographic.org
A useful background information site of geographic knowledge,
promoting the conservation of the world's cultural, historical,
and natural resources.
NGO Manager - www.ngomanager.org
NGO Manager aims to provide a comprehensive range of nonprofit
management services to managers of (NGOs), including training
courses and consultancy, and research on how to improve management
capacity building.
Office of the UN Special Envoy for Tsunami
Recovery - www.tsunamispecialenvoy.org
Gives regular updates on progress made on recovery initiatives
throughout the Indian Ocean region affected by the 2004 Tsunami.
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - www.odi.org.uk
ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international
development and humanitarian issues.
People in Aid - www.peopleinaid.org
People
In Aid (PIA) is an international network of development and
humanitarian assistance agencies. PIA helps organisations whose
goal is the relief of poverty and suffering to enhance the
impact they make through better people management and support.
They produced the People In Aid Code as a tool to help agencies
offer better development aid and disaster relief to communities
in need by improving standards, accountability and transparency
amid the challenges of disaster, conflict and poverty.
Psychosocial.org - www.psychosocial.org
This USA based website connects humanitarian experts, aid workers,
and academics and provides them with the training materials,
best practices, and research results needed to support their
work.
RedR Australia - www.redr.org.au
RedR Australia is a humanitarian organisation whose mission
is to relieve suffering in disasters by selecting, training
and providing competent and effective relief personnel to
humanitarian relief agencies worldwide.
Relief Web - www.reliefweb.int
ReliefWeb is the global hub for time-critical humanitarian
information on complex emergencies and natural disasters.
An excellent resource for humanitarian response maps.
Smart
Traveller - www.smartraveller.gov.au
The Australian Government's travel advisory and consular assistance
service which gives practical advice to Australians living,
working or travelling overseas
The Sphere Project - www.sphereproject.org
SPHERE comprises a broad process of collaboration and an expression
of commitment to quality and accountability. A key project
of SPHERE is the development of a handbook describing the
humanitarian charter and minimum standards recommended in
disaster response.
TorqAid - www.torqaid.com
TorqAid is an overseas aid consultancy focusing in humanitarian
consultancies training, public awareness and education. Consultancies
focus on risk reduction, field assessments/evaluations and
desk-top appraisals. Training is centred around two
main topics: Participatory Project Management (PPM) and Disaster
Risk Management (DRM), which are offered both in Australia
and overseas.
United Nations Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
- www
ochaonline.un.org
UNOCHA is designed to strengthen the UN's response
to complex emergencies and natural disasters,
and improve UN humanitarian operations in the field by the
coordination of humanitarian response, policy development and
humanitarian advocacy.
World Health Organisation (WHO) - www.who.int
The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized
agency for health. WHO's objective, is the attainment by
all peoples of the highest possible level of health, ie,
a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
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