Este manual desea presentar los conceptos básicos de la gestión y la logística de los suministros humanitarios. Aunque el manejo de suministrosmédicos y farmacéuticos recibe especial atención, los...
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Monitoring and Reporting Human Rights Violations in Africa
This Manual proposes a progressive method for monitoring and reporting human rights violations in Africa and around the world. It provides guidelines on how to gather the right information in the...
Emergency Sanitation: Assessment and Programme Design
Seeking to assist those involved in planning and implementing emergency sanitation programmes, this book focuses on a systematic and structured approach to assessment and programme design. It three...
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
This document outlines the Saffir-Hurricane Scale of 1-5 based on the intensity of the hurricane, aimed at estimating the potential property damage and flooding expected along the coast from a...
Disaster Loss Assessment Guidelines
These Guidelines provide an explanation of the process of loss assessment, and examines the steps required to carry out an economic assessment of disaster losses. For this purpose, it looks at the...
Planning Safer Communities
These guidelines seek to demonstrate how integrated land use planning can be used to reduce the impact of natural hazards and avoid risk to life, property and environmental systems from natural...
Guidelines on Flash Flood Prevention and Mitigation
These guidelines aim to describe prevention and mitigation measures to cope with flash floods. In addition to providing definitions of key terms relating to flood management and links relating to...
Facts for Life
Seeking to make life-saving knowledge easily available to everyone, this document presents the most important factors in preventing child deaths and diseases, and in protecting women during pregnancy...
OCHA Orientation Handbook
This handbook seeks to provide a practical introduction to OCHA and provide staff members with an understanding of OCHA's work and their collective role within the organisation as coordinators of...
Emergencies and Disasters in Drinking Water Supply and Sewerage Systems: Guidelines for Effective Response
This manual offers a guide for disaster reduction planning of water supply and sewerage systems when designing emergency and disaster plans. It aims to be of use to managers, administrators,...
A Destruction Handbook: Small Arms, Light Weapons, Ammunition and Explosives
Focusing primarily on post-conflict situations, this handbook for planners in the field aims to provide an easy reference guide to various methods that may be employed in the destruction of small...
Guidelines for the Identification of the Humanitarian Dimensions of the Landmine Problem during UN Mine Action Assessment Missions
These Guidelines were developed to assist in the identification of the humanitarian dimension of the landmine problem during multi-disciplinary assessments organised by the UN Mine Action Service...
Assessing Landmine Impact at the Community Level: A Training Manual
Aiming to build sustainable analytic capacity within operators that have a long-term commitment to Humitarian Mine Action (HMA), this manual aims to provide a comprehensive training tool for...
Conducting Conflict Assessment: Guidance Note
Presenting a methodology for conflict assessment at the country and regional level, this booklet aims to provide bilateral and multilateral agencies with a resource for: - Analysing conflict -...
Insights Into The Concept Of Stress
Emergency response personnel are unique in that they dedicate their time and energy in assisting persons during stressful times of their lives, for example, after disasters such as hurricanes,...
Selected Bibliography on the Global Crisis of Internal Displacement
This compilation of material on internal displacement is intended for both scholars and practitioners interested in gaining a better understanding of internal displacement and the national, regional...
Refugee Protection: A Guide to International Refugee Law
This handbook aims to inform members of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) about the founding principles and challenges of international refugee law and to mobilise them, as policy makers, in the...
Children - Not Soldiers: Guidelines for Working with Child Soldiers and Children Associated with Fighting Forces
These guidelines aim to guide to planning and programme implementation for work with child soldiers, as well as provide an overview of related issues. The following themes are discussed: - A...
Rapid Environment Impact Assessment - A Framework for Best Practice in Emergency Response
With the commendable exception of the UNHCR, environmental issues have not been routinels included in emergency response assessments, planning and operations. This paper provides a summary of a...
Inter-Agency Contingency Planning Guidelines for Humanitarian Assistance
Provides guidelines on inter-agency contingency planning in humanitarian emergencies, this document aims to address the need for a common inter-agency methodology on the basis of common planning...