Disaster Relief Archives

Infographic of the Day: Humanitarian Relief’s Scary Funding Gap

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released it’s mid-year report of the response to humanitarian emergencies around the world. Taken together, these graphics do an excellent job of telling the story of a humanitarian system under enormous...

Disaster Relief 2.0: Humanitarian Information, Year Zero?

The Disaster Relief 2.0 Blog Series provides a public forum for people from both the humanitarian and volunteer and technical communities to discuss ideas in this report and the future of disaster relief.

Disaster Relief 2.0

A new partnership between the Harvard Humanitarian Project, the UN Foundation, the Vodafone Foundation and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is formed to investigate the role that grassroots technology groups played in the Haiti earthquake response.

Tweeting Mount Merapi: A new Kind of Disaster Response

An Indonesian community near the erupting Mount Merapi volcano is using Twitter in a new way to help manage a disaster response.

Hurricane Tomas Makes Landfall. Worst is Yet to Come

According to the latest projections from NOAA, the storm should pass in about six hours or so. In the meantime, storm surges, an overflowing river, and pounding rain are wreaking the kind of havoc that we've been expecting all week.

Start Paying Attention Now: Hurricane Tomas Is Going to be a Major, Major Disaster for Haiti

On Friday, we will find out what happens when a hurricane pounds a country in which 1.3 million people live in tents. Between the cholera epidemic, the earthquake and the storm, aid workers, government, the Haitian people are struggling to cope with three concurrent humanitarian emergencies.

Infographic of the Day: Humanitarian Relief’s Scary Funding Gap

Disaster Relief 2.0: Humanitarian Information, Year Zero?

Disaster Relief 2.0

Tweeting Mount Merapi: A new Kind of Disaster Response

Hurricane Tomas Makes Landfall. Worst is Yet to Come

Start Paying Attention Now: Hurricane Tomas Is Going to be a Major, Major Disaster for Haiti

Tomas May Make a “Direct Hit” On Port Au Prince, Haiti

Two Thirds of Benin Under Water

Can the International Community Take the Wind out of the Sails of Al Qaeda Propoganda?

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations