List of acronyms and weblink guide
The humanitarian community is increasingly complex and cannot be described without reference to an, often baffling, array of acronyms. Here are the key acronyms used in this book.
| ALNAP | Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action |
| www.alnap.org | |
| Humanitarian network to improve learning and accountability | |
| ARC | American Red Cross |
| www.redcross.org | |
| US national Red Cross Society | |
| BPRM | Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration |
| www.state.gov/g/prm | |
| Branch of US State Dept administering US refugee assistance programs | |
| CAP | Consolidated Appeal Process |
| http://ochaonline.un.org/cap2005 | |
| UN financial appeal organization | |
| CARE | Cooperative for Assistance www.care.org |
| Major INGO, with 13 national members | |
| CERF | Central Emergency Response Fund |
| http://cerf.un.org | |
| UN standby fund to provide quick access emergency funding | |
| CERP | Commander’s Emergency Response Program |
| Funds for US military- led humanitarian assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan | |
| CEWARN | Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism |
| www.cewarn.org | |
| IGAD initiative to anticipate and respond to conflict in Horn and East Africa | |
| CHF | Common Humanitarian Fund |
| www.unsudanig.org/workplan/chf/index.html | |
| Country-specific UN pooled funding mechanism | |
| DART | Disaster Assistance Response Team |
| A rapidly deployable USAID disaster response unit | |
| DEC | Disasters Emergency Committee |
| www.dec.org.uk | |
| UK NGO fundraising coordination body | |
| DFID | UK Dept. for International Development |
| www.dfid.gov.uk | |
| UK govt. development and relief agency | |
| DPKO | Dept of Peacekeeping Operations |
| www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko | |
| UN peacekeeping coordination dept. | |
| ECHO | European Community Humanitarian Aid Office |
| http://ec.europa.eu/echo/ataglance_en.htm | |
| European Commission humanitarian aid department | |
| EMOPS | Office of Emergency Programmes |
| www.unicef.org/emerg/index_33578.html | |
| UNICEF’s emergency department | |
| ERC | Emergency Relief Coordinator |
| UN humanitarian chief, head of OCHA | |
| ERF | Emergency Response Fund |
| UN fund to rapidly support NGO emergency responses | |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization |
| www.fao.org | |
| UN agriculture agency | |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Authority |
| www.fema.gov | |
| US federal government disaster response agency | |
| FEWSNET | Famine Early Warning System Network |
| www.fews.net | |
| USAID-funded global food insecurity forecasting network | |
| FFP | Food for Peace Program |
| www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/ffp/ | |
| USAID food aid unit | |
| GHD | Good Humanitarian Donorship |
| www.goodhumanitariandonorship.org | |
| Donor governments’ initiative to harmonize aid flows | |
| GWOT | Global War on Terror |
| HAP | Humanitarian Accountability Partnership |
| www.hapinternational.org | |
| Project to make humanitarian action accountable to its intended beneficiaries | |
| HC | Humanitarian Coordinator |
| In-country head of UN humanitarian response | |
| HIC | Humanitarian Information Centre |
| www.humanitarianinfo.org | |
| Information clearing house for crisis situations | |
| HRR | Humanitarian Response Review |
| www.unicef.org/emerg/files/ocha_hrr.pdf | |
| Independent 2005 UN-published report on humanitarian reform options | |
| IASC | Inter-Agency Standing Committee |
| www.humanitarianinfo.org/iasc | |
| Primary international humanitarian coordination mechanism | |
| ICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| www.icrc.org | |
| Agency assisting prisoners, wounded, civilians affected by conflict | |
| ICVA | International Council of Voluntary Agencies |
| www.icva.ch | |
| Geneva-based umbrella group of NGOs: member of IASC | |
| IDP | Internally Displaced Person |
| www.internal-displacement.org | |
| IFRC | International Federation of Red Cross and Red |
| Crescent Societies | |
| www.icrc.org | |
| Federation of national Red Cross/Crescent National Societies | |
| IGAD | Intergovernmental Authority on Development |
| www.igad.org | |
| Six- country regional development organization in Horn and East Africa | |
| IHL | International Humanitarian Law |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| www.imf.org | |
| Together with World Bank comprises the Bretton Wood Institutions | |
| INGO | international non-governmental organization |
| InterAction | American Council for Voluntary International Action |
| www.interaction.org | |
| Umbrella group of 150 US-based INGOs, member of IASC | |
| IOM | International Organization for Migration |
| www.iom.int | |
| Inter-governmental organization promoting orderly migration | |
| IRIN | Integrated Regional Information Network |
| www.irinnews.org | |
| Online UN humanitarian news agency | |
| ISCA | International Save the Children Alliance |
| www.savethechildren.net | |
| Coalition of 28 child-focused NGOs | |
| MDGs | Millennium Development Goals |
| www.un.org/millenniumgoals | |
| Eight UN goals to assist world’s poorest | |
| MSF | Médecins Sans Frontières |
| www.msf.org | |
| Coalition of NGOs | |
| NFI | non-food item |
| NGO | non-governmental organization |
| OCHA | Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
| http://ochaonline.un.org | |
| UN agency to coordinate humanitarian response | |
| ODA | Official Development Assistance |
| Humanitarian/development funding provided by OECD member governments | |
| OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| www.oecd.org | |
| Organization of developed countries | |
| OECD/DAC | Development Assistance Committee, Organization for |
| Economic Cooperation and Development | |
| http://www.oecd.org/dac/ | |
| OECD unit for cooperation with developing countries, compiler of ODA statistics | |
| OFDA | Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance |
| www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/disaster_assistance/ | |
| Emergency response unit of USAID | |
| OHCHR | Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| www.ohchr.org | |
| UN human rights agency | |
| SC | Security Council |
| www.un.org/sc/ | |
| United Nations Security Council | |
| SCHR | Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response |
| www.humanitarianinfo.org/iasc/content/about/schr.asp | |
| Alliance of eight major INGOs, member of IASC | |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| www.undp.org | |
| UN development agency | |
| UNFPA | United Nations Population Fund |
| www.unfpa.org | |
| UN population agency | |
| UNHCR | Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees |
| www.unhcr.org | |
| UN refugee agency | |
| UNICEF | UN Children’s Fund |
| www.unicef.org | |
| UN child protection/assistance agency | |
| UNOCHA | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
| http://ochaonline.un.org | |
| UN agency to coordinate humanitarian response | |
| UNRWA | UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees |
| www.unrwa.org | |
| UN agency assisting Palestinian refugees | |
| USAID | US Agency for International Development |
| www.usaid.gov | |
| US government humanitarian / development agency | |
| VOICE | Voluntary Organizations in Cooperation in Emergencies |
| www.ngovoice.org | |
| Network of 90 European INGOs | |
| WFP | UN World Food Programme |
| www.wfp.org | |
| UN food aid agency | |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| www.who.org | |
| UN health agency | |
| WVI | World Vision International |
| www.wvi.org | |
| International partnership of Christian INGOs |