Links to UN and UN System sites:

United Nations

• UN Works in Emergencies
• Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
  • Emergency Relief Tools and Services
  • Coordination of Humanitarian Response
  • Reliefweb
  • Joint OCHA/UNEP Environment Unit
• UN-HABITAT Risk and Disaster Management

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

• 2006-2007 World Disaster Reduction Campaign
• World Conference on Disaster Reduction (2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan)
• Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Food and Agriculture Organization - Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation

Pan American Health Organization - Disasters and Humanitarian Assistance

UN Centre for Regional Development - Disaster Management Planning Hyogo Office

Unesco - Natural Disaster Reduction

UNICEF in Emergencies

UNDP - Disaster Reduction Unit

World Food Programme - Disaster to Development

World Health Organization

• Disasters
• Health Action in Crises

World Bank Group - Hazard Risk Management

Additional Resources:

The additional resources links on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not necessarily represent an endorsement by the United Nations.

Asian Disaster Reduction Center

Centre d'Etude des Risques Géologiques (Université de Genève)

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño (CIIFEN)

Disaster Prevention Research Institute (Japan)

Disaster Research Center (University of Delaware)

Earthquake Hazards Programme (U.S. Geological Survey)

Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Global Disaster Information Network

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Natural Disaster Reference Database (NASA)

ProVention Consortium

Regional Disaster Information Center - Latin America and the Caribbean (CRID)

Risk Frontiers - Natural Hazards Research Centre (Macquarie University, Australia)