Civil Military Interaction

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

Securing an AIDS Free Future: Practical Lessons about Security and AIDSin Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings

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

Coordinated by the World Bank, the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) is a partnership of over 120 recognized global institutions (Affiliates) in over 80 countries that collaborates in the design of customized learning solutions for individuals and organizations working in development

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.

A Guidelines on the Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum-Seekers and Alternatives to Detention

MapStory, as a compliment to Wikipedia, is a new dimension to the global data commons that empowers a global user community to organize all knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. Perhaps more important, MapStory is an infrastructure for enabling "MapStorytelling" as a means of communicating important issues to a global audience. The goal is to enable any student, teacher or practitioner on Earth to tap the power of this new mode of conveying one's stories, arrayed across geography and as they unfold over time. MapStory will become the convening point where MapStorytellers of all kinds come to publish their expressions, and to critique each others' MapStories, leading to a consistently accumulating and improving global body of knowledge about global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history.

This is the World Bank (WB) webpage dealing with the gender topic

First status report on urban and peri-urban horticulture in Africa. Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

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

EIGE is a European agency which supports the EU and its Member States in their efforts to promote gender equality, to fight discrimination based on sex and to raise awareness about gender equality issues

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

With a view to merging inspiration with technical expertise, UNICEF has launched its Innovate for Children website. The site draws attention to health and education challenges faced by children in developing countries - and the potential for innovative product design and inventive use of technology to find solutions

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

Major humanitarian crises and disasters require many aid agencies on the ground. To operate effectively, the agencies' independence is critical. However, they also need to coordinate efforts to avoid gaps and duplication, focus on urgent needs, strategically address the crisis and work towards longer-term recovery. A common strategic approach is essential for an efficient response that builds on each organization's strengths. The Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP)helps to achieve this.

The European Union website dealing with the EU Humanitarian Aid and CIVIL Protection efforts

This study examines the evolving meaning of the term 'humanitarian', from its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century through to the end of the twentieth century. It explores how the goals of humanitarian action have developed, the principles that guide it, the range of actors that pursue it and its relationship with politics

Improving communication with crisis affected communities. Media Guides of 22 Counries providing a comprehensive picture of the media and telecommunications landscape. The message library is an online searchable database of messages that acts as a reference for those wanting to disseminate critical information to affected populations in an emergency.

The Satellite Sentinel Project is a game-changing collaboration, combining commercial satellite imagery, academic analysis, and advocacy to promote human rights in Sudan and South Sudan and serve as an early warning system for impending crisis

The HHI is a university-wide center involving multiple entities within the Harvard community that provide expertise in public health, medicine, social science, management, and other disciplines to promote evidence-based approaches to humanitarian assistance