International Day for Disaster Reduction at the World Bank Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age A joint training workshop by GICT, GFDRR, infoDev and LCSUW to mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction

1. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Mobilise and Coordinate effective and principled humanitarian assistance in partnership with national and international actors in order to: • alleviate human suffering in disasters and emergencies • advocate for the rights of people in need • promote preparedness and prevention • facilitate sustainable solutions.

4. Redhum RedHum is a Latin American regional disaster information service in Spanish, comparable to and supported by ReliefWeb Lead by the OCHA Regional office in Panama, this project is spread between six country offices, making it Regional and National in scope.

10. UNDAC – UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination

11. HEWSWEB A Global Multi-Hazard Watch Service to Support Humanitarian Preparedness HEWSWEB is an inter-agency partnership project aimed at establishing a common platform for humanitarian early warnings and forecasts for natural hazards. The main objective of HEWSweb is to bring together and make accessible in a simple manner the most credible early warning information available at the global level from multiple specialized institutions.

12. Humanitarian Information Networks Building communities of practice among IM and ICT professionals Global Symposium +5 built upon a process that began five years earlier in 2002, at the Symposium on Best Practices in Humanitarian Information Exchange , held in Geneva, where the Statement on Best Practices for Humanitarian Information Management and Exchange was endorsed. It was further developed in a series of regional Humanitarian Information Network workshops in Bangkok , December 2003, Panama City , August 2005, and Nairobi , May 2006.