Virtual Disaster Library
June 5, 2003
- Issue 15 Issue 15: Kosovo, NGO consortia and more
- 1 Échange Humanitaire No.15: les Balkans
- 2 Kosovo: Drawing Lessons from a Disaster
- 3 NATO's Strategic Concept
- 4 The Current Situation in Kosovo
- 5 Coordination in Kosovo: the challenge for the NGO sector
- 6 Evaluative Studies of the International Response to the Kosovo Crisis
- 7 A Change of Policy and Attitude: UNHCR and Evaluation
- 8 Post-NATO Serbia
- 9 The Psychological Health of Relief Workers: Some Practical Suggestions
- 10 EC Push for NGOs to Form Consortia
- 11 DAC Guidelines on the Use of Incentives and Disincentives in Situations of Violent Conflict
- 12 Czech Humanitarian Assistance, 19931998
- 13 The Limits of Humanitarian Aid
- 14 NEDAD: Nedworc Disaster and Development Group
- 15 The People in Aid Code: Measuring Progress
- 16 The Reach Out Initiative
- 17 Virtual Disaster Library
- 18 African Universities Establish Graduate Programmes in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies
- 19 Chechnya (November 1999)
- 20 Tibet (November 1999)
- 21 Somalia (November 1999)
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has developed a CD-ROM Virtual Disaster Library in collaboration with the Regional Disaster Information Center and the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. The library contains more than 25,000 pages of experiences, ideas and solutions to advance the cause of disaster reduction, and calls itself the most complete collection of technical information on disasters and emergencies worldwide.
The Virtual Disaster Library contains:
- More than 250 complete technical publications in English or Spanish on a variety of subjects related to preparedness, mitigation and response to disasters, especially in the health sector;
- All the technical publications on disasters published by PAHO (in English, Spanish or French) from 1979 to January 1999;
- The complete collection (from 1979 to 1999) in English and Spanish of the PAHO newsletter DISASTERS: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas;
- selection of documents from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and Costa Ricas National Emergency Commission.
In addition to the CD-ROM version, the library can be freely accessed through the internet at the following websites: www.paho.org/english/ped/ and www.disasters.info.desastres.net
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