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Key sources of disaster information
This section highlights key information addressing and responding to natural disasters as they occur. It provides links to valuable situation reports, media alerts and interactive mapping systems giving up to date information. It lists organisations and databases specialising in the complex events of a natural disaster.Also provided are impact assessments and evaluations of past natural disasters by highlighting key lessons and facilitating learning and practice in this area.
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Impact assessments and evaluations
- State of the Humanitarian System: A pilot study
- Concerning accountability of humanitarian action
- Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC): lessons & recommendations
- Remittances during crises: implication for humanitarian response
- Re-emerging conflict in the Solomon Islands?
- Natural Disasters fact page
- Hazards of nature, risks to development
- Tsunami evaluation synthesis report
- World Disasters Report 2005
- Summary of the Red Cross World Disasters Report 04
- Wikipedia: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
- Evaluating humanitarian action using the OECD-DAC criteria
- The Aitape PNG earthquake/tsunami
Key organisations
- Maldives Disaster Management Centre
- Useful contacts - international agencies
- Australian-Pacific Centre for Emergency and Disaster Information (APCEDI)
- Centre of Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
- ReliefWeb
- Tsunami post-disaster useful contacts - Australian agencies
- Austrade
- Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
- Natural Hazards Home
- emergencyNSW
Databases & information systems
- Visual mapping of crisis in Darfur using Google Earth
- Disaster Assist
- The Australian Radiation Incident Register (ARIR)
- Australian Emergency Veterinary Plan
- Sahana
- Humanitarian information centre
- Aceh.Net
- Relief Information System for Earthquakes - Pakistan (RISEPAK)
- Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN)
- Digital Divide Network's community for disaster relief and emergency preparedness
- Database on the human impact of complex emergencies (CE-DAT)
- ICT for peace