Acronyms
We hope that this list of main acronyms will enable users to navigate the documents and organizations represented in this database.
- AAH
Action Against Hunger
- ACAPS
Assessment Capacities Project
- ACF
Action Contre la Faim
- ACT
ACT International
- ADPC
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
- ARC
Action for the Rights of Children
- AS
Accion Social
- ASA
American Statistical Association
- ASEAN
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- Benetech
Beneficent Technology
- BHRC
Benfield Hazard Research Centre
- CARE
CARE
- CARE
Humanitarian CARE
- Caritas
Caritas
- CC
Creative Commons
- CDA
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
- CDCP
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CERF
United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund
- CERTI
Crisis and Transition Tool Kit
- CIDERS
Center for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies
- COHRE
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
- CPC
Committee on Planning for Catastrophe
- CPCW
Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Wetlands
- CRED
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
- CRIC
Comite de Reflexion des Intervenants aux Cataclysmes
- CRS
Catholic Relief Service
- CS
Commonwealth Secretariat
- CSFVA
Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment
- CU
Cambridge University
- DEC
Disaster Emergency Committee
- DESAP
Development of a Self-Assessment Programme
- DFG
California Department for Fish and Game
- DFID
UK Department for International Development
- DHS
Demographic and Health Surveys
- DNP
Departamento Nacional de Planeación
- DRC
Danish Refugee Council
- ECB
Emergency Capacity Building
- ECHELLE
ONG Echelle
- ECHO
European Commission - Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection
- ECLAC
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- ECP
European Civil Protection
- ECVR
Enquête sur les Conditions de Vie en milieu rural (by UNDP)
- ECVU
Enquête sur les Conditions de Vie en milieu urban (by UNDP)
- EEA
European Environment Agency
- EFSA
Emergency Food Security Assessment (by WFP)
- EHNIG
eHealth Nigeria
- EIMA
Enquete Initiale Multi Aleas
- EMU
Emory University
- ENSEA
Ecole Nationale Supériore de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquée
- EPA
United States Environmental Protection Agency
- EPFL
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- EPIET
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training
- ERAT
Emergency Rapid Assessment Team (by ASEAN)
- ERRF
Emergency Relief Response Fund
- ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute
- ESS
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences
- ETEPI
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
- ETR
ETR Associates
- EU
European Union
- Expert
Individual Expert
- FAFO
FAFO Research Foundation
- FANTA
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance
- FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization
- FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency (US)
- FHI
Family Health International
- FIC
Feinstein International Centre, Tufts University
- FICSS
Field Information and Coordination Support Section (UNHCR)
- FSAU
Food Security Analysis Unit
- FTS
Financial Tracking Service
- GEC
Global Education Cluster
- GICHD
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
- GOOGLE
Google
- GoZ
Government of Zimbabwe
- GPC
Global Protection Cluster
- GSS
Ghana Statistical Service
- GTPDI
Groupe de Travail sur les Personnes Déplacées Internes - Burundi
- GTZ
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (Germany)
- HAI
HelpAge International
- HC
Hunter College
- HIC
Humanitarian Information Center for the Middle East
- HPG ODI
Humanitarian Policy Group (by ODI)
- HPN
Humanitarian Practice Network
- HRC
Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley
- HRQ
Journal Human Rights Quarterly
- HUBE
Humboldt University, Berlin
- IASC
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
- ICASEES
Institut Centrafricain des Statistiques des Etudes Economiques et Sociales
- ICRC
International Committee of the Red Cross
- IDMC
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
- IFORD
International Forum of Research Donors
- IFORD
Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques
- IFRC
International Federation of the Red Cross
- IHCAR
Division of Global Health of the Karolinska Institute
- IJQHC
International Journal for Quality in Health Care
- ILO
International Labour Organization
- IMAS
International Mine Action Standards
- IMTF
Information Management Task Force
- INT
Intersos
- Internews
Internews
- IOM
International Organization for Migration
- IPSR
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University
- IRA
Initial Rapid Assessment
- IRC
International Rescue Committee
- IRRC
International Review of the Red Cross
- JAM
Joint Assessment Mission
- JHSEM
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
- JHU
John Hopkins University
- JIPS
Joint IDP Profiling Service
- JPARE
Journal Practical Assessment Research & Evaluation
- JRS
Jesuit Refugee Service
- LB
Learning Bridge
- MARTUS
Martus
- MC
Mercy Corps
- MDT
Montana Department of Transportation
- ME
Monitoring and Evaluation
- MEDES
Institut de Médecine et Physiologie Spatiales
- MERLIN
Medical Relief International
- MI
Malteser International
- MICS
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (by UNICEF)
- MIRA
Multi-Cluster Initial Rapid Assessment
- MOBAC
MobileActive
- MSCI
Margaret Sanger Center International
- MSF
Médecins sans Frontières
- MSNDPHG
Ministere de la Solidarité Nationale des Droits de la Personne Humaine et du Genre - Burundi
- MSU
Michigan State University
- NAS
National Academy of Sciences
- NATF
Needs Assessment Task Force
- NIDI
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
- NOAA
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NOM
NOMAD
- NRC
Norwegian Refugee Council
- NRC
National Research Council
- NYSHCR
NYS Division of Housing & Community Renewal
- OCHA
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- ODAN
Emergency Needs Assessment Branch (WFP)
- ODI
Overseas Development Institute
- OHCHR
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- OXFAM
OXFAM
- Oxfam
Oxfam Australia
- PC
Provention Consurtium
- PGDS
Population and Geographic Data Section (UNHCR)
- ProCap
Protection Standby Capacity Project
- RECAP
Refugee Camp Project
- REDLAC
Risk, Emergency and Disaster Task Force Inter-Agency Workgroup for Latin America & The Caribbean (by OCHA)
- RRN
Relief and Rehabilitation Network (by ODI)
- SC
Statistics Canada
- SEDAC
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
- SenseFly
SenseFly
- SMFA
Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- SOLIDARITES
Solidarités International
- SORS
Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia
- SPDRP
South Pacific Disaster Reduction Programme
- SPHERE
SPHERE Project
- Sphinx
Sphinx
- SSW
Statistics Sweden
- STC
Save the Children
- STEPS
STEPS
- SVM
SurveyMonkey
- SYSFAL
Secretariat Permanent de la Formation en Alternance
- TEC
Tsunami Evaluation Coalition
- TEC
TEC
- THW
Technisches Hilfswerk (Germany)
- TUN
Tulane University, New Orleans
- UC
University of Canberra, Australia
- UCL
University College London
- UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
- UCO
University of Colorado
- UEH
University of Haiti
- UGA
University of Georgia
- UIL
University of Illinois
- UKONS
UK Office for National Statistics
- UN
United Nations
- UNAIDS
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
- UNCT
United Nations Country Team
- UNDAC
United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination
- UNDESA
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- UNDG
United Nations Development Group
- UNDP
United Nations Development Program
- UNFPA
United Nations Population Fund
- UNHCR
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- UNICEF
United Nations Children's Fund
- UNICSC
United Nations International Civil Service Commission
- UNIFEM
United Nations Development Found for Women
- UNIHOH
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart
- UNODC
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- UNOPS
United Nations Office for Project Services
- UNSC
United Nations Staff College
- UNSD
United Nations Statistics Division
- USAID
United States Agency for International Development
- USCO
United States of America Census Office
- USDC
US-Department of Commerce
- UW
University of Washington
- VVC
Vovici
- WB
World Bank
- WFP
World Food Program
- WHO
World Health Organization
- World Vision
World_Vision
- WP
The Washington Post
- ZOO
Zoomerang

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