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"The Logistics Capacity Assessment (LCA) is a long-standing tool of WFP Logistics. Since 2008, it has provided important logistics information relevant to Logistics Cluster partners and the Humanitarian Community and is shared as an interagency tool via the Logistics Cluster website. In 2013, the Logistics Cluster took the initiative to improve the user-friendliness of the LCA by moving it to a new, wiki based format which offers significant benefits. These include incorporating real time updates and easy exports of individual sections in multiple formats. For additional information, please contact the designated LCA helpdesk at LCA.GLOBAL@wfp.org ."

"World Meteorogical Organization (WMO) Global Information System Centres" (GISC) is WMO's clearing house for data, products and services

Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.

AlertNet is a free humanitarian news service run by Thomson Reuters Foundation covering crises worldwide. Our award-winning website provides trusted news and information on natural disasters, conflicts, refugees, hunger, diseases and climate change

The DPI - NGO Relations Cluster is the link to over 1,500 Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) associated with the Department of Public Information and supports their efforts to interact effectively with the United Nations in their areas of expertise

ReliefWeb is your source for timely, reliable and relevant humanitarian information and analysis

The NGO Coordination Comittee in Chad (CCO) is an autonomous forum created by the NGOs working in Chad in order to promote information sharing and coordination of NGOs among themselves

The COI Service is a team of specialist researchers who research and collate information on countries giving rise to asylum claims in the UK. On the right hand site is a list of open sources they use

Serving the information needs of the disaster reduction community

At InSTEDD we envision a world where communities everywhere design and use technology to continuously improve their health, safety and development InSTEDD has a unique niche - we design and use open source technology tools to help partners enhance collaboration and improve information flow and knowledge sharing to better deliver critical services to vulnerable populations

We are a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping

Womenwatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies, and academic and research institutions

APMEN is an exciting new online information sharing platform dedicated to migration, environment and climate change issues in the Asia Pacific region. In a region with its share of natural disasters, where the impacts of climate change are clearly visible and people increasingly affected, APMEN fills a needed gap in bringing these issues to the forefront in one central location.

Learning from Megadisasters, a knowledge-sharing project sponsored by the Government of Japan and the World Bank, is collecting and analyzing information, data, and evaluations performed by academic and research institutions, nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, and the private sector-all with the objective of sharing Japan's knowledge on disaster risk management (DRM) and postdisaster reconstruction with countries vulnerable to disasters. The World Bank and the Japanese government hope that these findings will encourage countries to mainstream DRM in their development policies and planning

The ICRC and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies work together around the world to locate people and put them back into contact with their relatives. This site facilitates the process and provides information

IATI aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand

Welcome to the unique platform about international heritage cooperation, with information about related projects, experts and organisations, written by the people who work within the heritage field.

HealthMap, a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Boston Children's Hospital founded in 2006, is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats

OECD Factbook 2013 is a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual publication from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: agriculture, economic production, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health, industry, information and communications, international trade, labour force, population, taxation, public expenditure, and R&D. This year, the OECD Factbook features a focus chapter on gender