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UNOSAT is a technology-intensive programme delivering imagery analysis and satellite solutions to relief and development organisations within and outside the UN system to help make a difference in critical areas such as humanitarian relief, human security, strategic territorial and development planning

The Leader in Supply Chain Management for Humanitarian Relief, fundraising, personnel, materieel , supply management

The use of foreign military and civil defence assets in disaster relief. Oslo Guidelines Update nov 2006 , revision 1.1 November 2007

THW is a DEU govermental organisation for technical relief. They have a local presents throughout whole Germany and additional units that are vailable for global missions

This map is updated monthly and was last updated March 2013. This map service is designed to be used as a basemap and as a reference map. The map service includes administrative boundaries, cities, water features, physiographic features, parks, landmarks, highways, roads, railways, airports, and buildings overlaid on land cover and shaded relief for added context.

ALNAP and UN-Habitat have just launched an Urban Humanitarian Response Portal - a knowledge sharing platform, with a focus on disaster preparedness, relief and early recovery in urban humanitarian crises

"The International NGO Safety & Security Association (INSSA) is a non-profit global membership association of individuals and organizations committed to improving the quality and effectiveness of safety and security for humanitarian relief and development assistance workers operating in complex and dangerous environments around the world. INSSA does this through four main avenues of programming: Advocacy, Collaboration, Education & Professional Development, and Standardization."

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs

CRED has been active for over 30 years in the fields of international disaster and conflict health studies, with research and training activities linking relief, rehabilitation and development. CRED promotes research, training and technical expertise on humanitarian emergencies, with a special focus on public health and epidemiology

Disasters and humanitarian emergencies are increasing in magnitude and complexity. This presents a major challenge to NGOs that respond to these emergencies. In order to address this challenge, emergency directors from 7 agencies - CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Oxfam GB, Save the Children and World Vision International- came together in 2003 to discuss the most persistent obstacles in humanitarian aid delivery. The Inter-Agency Working Group (IWG) on Emergency Capacity that emerged from this meeting launched a systematic analysis, resulting in the publication of a Report on Emergency Capacity in 2004.

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

IRD works in collaboration with a wide range of organizations. These include U.S. and foreign government agencies, bilateral and international donor organizations, international finance organizations, faith-based organizations, advocacy groups, international and local NGOs, U.S. corporations and members of the U.S. Congress

SMART is an interagency initiative to improve monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian assistance interventions. Specifically, the program will pilot an approach to routinely collect, analyze and disseminate information on the nutrition and mortality experience of populations served by humanitarian interventions

ACBAR was created in August 1988, in response to the demand from the many aid agencies and their international donors for a coordinated approach to humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan and for Afghan refugees in Pakistan

This reference map includes administrative boundaries, cities, protected areas, highways, roads, railways, water features, buildings and landmarks, overlaid on shaded relief and land cover imagery for added context. The map includes global coverage down to ~1:144k scale and more detailed coverage for North America down to ~1:9k scale.

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

UN - OCHA has created a set of 500 freely available humanitarian icons to help relief workers present emergency and crisis-related information quickly and simply

InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), with more than 190 members working in every developing country.