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Tank level monitoring system is a technique of automatic measurement of liquid levels in bulk tanks. It is a combination of software, hardware, and various sensors. This system works on the principle of level sensor, and has widespread applications across varied industry verticals, such as oil & fuel, chemical industry, mining, agriculture & husbandry, automotive, and power.

The Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) is the global level forum for coordinating prevention and response to GBV in humanitarian settings. The group brings together NGOs, UN agencies, academics and others under the shared objectives of ensuring more predictable, accountable and effective approaches to GBV prevention and response. Established in 2008, the GBV AoR is one of four functional components of the Global Protection Cluster, known as "areas of responsibility". The GBV AoR is co-led at the global level by UNFPA and UNICEF

This Map Library are assembled by The Afghanistan Team at the Civil-Military Fusion Centre and consists of hundreds of maps of Afghanistan and the surrounding region. The maps in the collection cover varying scopes, from regional and national levels to provincial, district and even city levels. The maps reflect information on a wide range of topics, themes and sectors, including humanitarian aid, infrastructure, natural resources and security, among others. The maps have been collected from credible open-sources, including international organisations, research bodies, governmental agencies and others.

The Global Protection Cluster coordinates and provides global level inter-agency policy advice and guidance on the implementation of the cluster approach to Protection Clusters in the field, supports protection responses in non-refugee situation humanitarian action as well as leads standard and policy setting relating to protection in complex and natural disaster humanitarian emergencies, in particular with regard to the protection of internally displaced persons

In 2008 CCOE published its first publication on gender: 'Gender Makes Sense: A Way to Improve Your Mission' This publication has been re-written ; the new 2nd edition is now available. The aim of this CCOE publication is: To create a thorough understanding of gender for the operational and tactical level in order to be more successful in military operations; To stimulate the military stakeholders to become more knowledgeable on gender; To provide our civilian partners with awareness regarding the military approach towards gender; To provide CIMIC personnel with a useful tool to improve their day-to-day work

The UN Development Group (UNDG) Toolkit was created for improved functioning of the UN development system at the country level. It provides a comprehensive structure to support countries in planning and implementing the change effort required to improve development impact and increase efficiency of the UN development system. It is a repository of the guidance, lessons learned and tools deriving from the experiences of the eight "Delivering as One" pilot countries, and from the experiences of UN Country Teams (UNCTs) that have pursued efforts to become more coherent.

Since 1988 the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been maintaining an Emergency Events Database EM-DAT. EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the WHO and the Belgian Government. The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 18,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies

From targets to solutions and commitments, the 6th World Water Forum "Time for Solutions" is advocating a strategic approach to solving key water problems. Whether institutional, technical, legal, financial or communication-related, a solution is a successful answer to a problem and contributes to reaching one of the Forum's ambitious thematic and regional targets. Commitments can then be sought at all levels and from all kind of stakeholders to strengthen the implementation and follow-up of the target action plans and promising solutions

This site is meant to provide all users with improved access to World Bank data and to make that data easy to find and use. Data is available on country, topic and indicator level

The GED provides access to education data from UNESCO's Institute for Statistics and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). UNESCO data include a broad range of indicators, including data on all levels of education, workforce development, and literacy

OneResponse is a collaborative inter-agency website designed to enhance humanitarian coordination within the cluster approach, and support the predictable exchange of information in emergencies at the country level. The website will support Clusters and OCHA fulfill their information management responsibilities as per existing IASC guidance

The EU Civil Society Contact Group is an alliance bringing together eight large rights and value based NGO sectors acting in the public interest: CONCORD, the European NGO confederation for Relief and Development Culture Action Europe, the Forum for the Arts and Heritage EPHA, the European Public Health Alliance EUCIS-LLL, the European Civil Society Platform on Lifelong Learning EWL, the European Women's Lobby Green10, a group of leading environmental NGOs active at EU level HRDN, the Human Rights and Democracy Network Social Platform, the Platform of European Social NGOs

The Afghanistan Provincial Indicators (API) should offer to quickly access provincial-level data selected by subject-matter experts from the Civil-Military Fusion Centre (CFC) consolidated the best available data from credible, "open" sources such as the United Nations and the Afghan government's Central Statistics Organisation

Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts - to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. FAO's mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy

DevInfo is a database system endorsed by the United Nations Development Group for monitoring human development. It is a tool for organizing, storing and presenting data in a uniform way to facilitate data sharing at the country level across government departments, UN agencies and development partners

LINGOs is a consortium of over 65 international humanitarian relief, development, conservation and health organizations. LINGOs provides the latest learning technologies and courses from our partners so these non profits can increase the skill levels of their employees, and therefore increase the impact of their programs

The Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS) is a coalition of leading international geospatial societies which can speak on behalf of the geospatial profession at international level, especially to the United Nations and other global stakeholders. Its second goal is to coordinate activities within the geospatial society and organisations

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. The main objective of HEWSweb is to bring together and make accessible in a simple manner the most credible early warning information available at the global level from multiple specialized institutions

the intent of this handbook is not to explain how CALL does business. Rather, it takes a holistic look at what CALL does today and combines that with numerous, successful LL programs to lay a foundation for a "generic" LL capability that can be used as a "menu" of options to develop your own LL program. There are no hard-and-fast rules for how to set up an LL program. Typically, any LL effort will depend on what the organization is trying to achieve and its level of resourcing. Every organization must develop its own way of working with observations, insights, lessons, and best practices that suits the nature of the knowledge it requires and its organizational culture

"World Humanitarian Data and Trends is an annual OCHA publication that presents global and country-level data and trends analysis on humanitarian crises and assistance. It provides data that helps to support policy-making and operational decisions"