La terminologie de la Stratégie internationale de prévention des catastrophes des Nations Unies (UNISDR) a pour but de promouvoir une compréhension et une utilisation communes des concepts de réduction de risques de catastrophe et vise à soutenir les efforts des autorités, des praticiens et du grand public dans ce domaine. La version précédente de la « Terminologie : termes fondamentaux de prévention de risque de catastrophe » a été publiée dans le cadre de la publication «Vivre avec le risque: une étude mondiale des initiatives menées en matière de réduction des catastrophes » en 2004.

ReliefWeb remains a key resource for its humanitarian audience. In 2009, we covered 193 natural disasters and 33 crises worldwide. We had close to 10 million unique visits to the website and over 150,000 subscribers.

Education systems in many of the world's poorest countries are now experiencing the aftershock of the global economic downturn.

The 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, released on 19 January, argues that the crisis could create a lost generation of children whose life chances will have been irreparably damaged by a failure to protect their right to education.

The Report examines who these children are and why they are being left behind, and shows that the cost of providing Education for All is much higher than previously estimated.

This paper sets out and explores the link between donor aid and recipient country budgets, and the role that greater transparency about aid can play in improving budget transparency, the quality of budgetary decisions, and accountability systems. The paper goes on to explore how current initiatives to improve aid transparency can best support better budgets and accountability in aid dependent countries. These efforts provide an important opportunity to enhance the effectiveness of both the recipient governments' own spending and the aid they receive from donors.

The Abusers' Reaction: Intensifying Attacks on Human Rights Defenders, Organizations, and Institutions

By Kenneth Roth

Every government is at times tempted to violate human rights. To encourage governments to resist that temptation, the human rights movement seeks to raise the price of abuse-to shift the cost-benefit calculus behind a government's actions.

The human rights movement's ability to raise that price has grown substantially in recent years. Today, activists are capable of exposing abuses most anywhere in the world, shining an intense

This report, commissioned under ALNAP's Humanitarian Performance Project, aims to provide a system-level mapping and assessment of international humanitarian assistance. To this end, the report 1) defines key criteria for assessing system performance and progress, 2) assesses the system's performance over the past two years against these criteria, 3) presents new, previously unavailable descriptive statistics and 4) highlights some new initiatives in policy and practice. The research team synthesised the findings of roughly 500 global survey responses, 100

Since the 2004 SCHR position paper on 'humanitarian-military relations in the provision of humanitarian assistance', the operating environment for humanitarian organisations has undergone substantive changes, and is today perceived as more politicised and insecure for humanitarian actors and populations affected by crisis than ever before. The number of humanitarian workers killed, injured or abducted, and of humanitarian assets attacked, destroyed or stolen has indeed risen to unprecedented levels. Perceived associations between humanitarian organisations and political

In recent years, the term 'early recovery' has emerged as one of the main topics in the international debate on post-conflict development. While a broad array of concepts and approaches are present in the international arena, there is currently no consensus on what is meant by 'early recovery', both in policy and programmatic terms. To analyze these issues, this study critically discusses, in a first step, the policy strategies and operational frameworks of selected bilateral donors, regional organizations as well as multilateral institutions to disentangle the main