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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is an international organization encompassing a network of countries that work together toward a common goal of a better life for all. The main goal of the organization is to connect mainly underdeveloped and developing countries to knowledge, experience, and resources to increase welfare in those respective countries. UNDP focuses on the improvement of the countries' local capacity, which should ultimately make a difference at the regional and global levels. Currently, UNDP has 166 member countries.
Millennium Development Goals
One of the most important tasks of UNDP is to help countries reach the Millennium Development Goals that world leaders pledged to achieve during the 1990s world summits. The goals entail improvement in democratic governance, poverty reduction, crisis prevention and recovery, environment ...
- Africa, North
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Asia, East
- Asia, West, Central, and South
- Australia and Pacific Region
- Canada
- Caribbean Island Region
- China
- Desertification
- Earthquake Zones
- Europe, Eastern
- Europe, Western
- Evacuation Routes
- Glacial Melt
- Hurricane Zones
- Japan
- Mediterranean Region
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Ring of Fire
- Russia
- South America
- United Kingdom
- United States, California and West Coast
- United States, Great Lakes
- United States, Hawaii and Pacific Territories
- United States, Mid-Atlantic
- United States, Midwest
- United States, Mountain States
- United States, National
- United States, Northeast
- United States, Northwest and Northern Plains
- United States, Southeast and Gulf Coast
- United States, Southwest
- American Red Cross
- Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- ChildFund International
- Coast Guard, U.S.
- Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE)
- Defense, U.S. Department of Direct Relief
- Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Associations
- Doctors Without Borders
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Habitat for Humanity
- Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Institutional Coordination
- InterAction
- International Law in the Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters
- International Medical Corps
- International Red Cross
- Interpol
- Lutheran World Federation
- Mercy Corps
- National Governments
- Peace Corps
- Red Crescent Society
- Relief International
- Relief Rules
- Salvation Army
- St. Vincent de Paul
- State Governments
- United Nations
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- World Concern
- World Emergency Relief
- World Food Program
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Relief
- World Vision
- History of Disaster Relief, Africa
- History of Disaster Relief, Ancient World
- History of Disaster Relief, China and East Asia
- History of Disaster Relief, Europe
- History of Disaster Relief, India
- History of Disaster Relief, Middle East
- History of Disaster Relief, North America
- History of Disaster Relief, Pacific Region
- History of Disaster Relief, Russia
- History of Disaster Relief, South America
- Chemical Disasters
- Cyberattacks
- Economic Disasters
- Food Contamination Disasters
- Gulf Coast Oil Spill (2010)
- Pandemic/Biological Accidents
- Poverty and Disasters
- Radiation Disasters
- Terrorism
- Wars
- Air Transport
- Food Distribution Infrastructure
- Internet
- Mass Transit
- Ports
- Railroads
- Roads
- Schools
- Utilities
- Water Systems
- Community Preparedness
- Community Response
- Evacuation
- Fire Departments
- Home Preparedness
- Local Hazards
- Municipal Offices of Emergency Management
- Personal Preparedness
- Police Departments
- Private Sector Preparedness
- Public Agency Preparedness
- Public-Private Partnerships
- University Preparedness
- Warnings
- Bubonic Plague
- HIV/AIDS
- Malaria (20th Century-Present)
- Measles (1850-Present)
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Smallpox (20th Century)
- Tuberculosis (20th Century-Present)
- Earthquakes
- Famine
- Fire
- Floods
- Hurricanes
- Terrorist Attacks
- Tsunami
- Volcanoes
- Wars
- First Aid
- Hysteria
- Pandemic Planning
- Panic
- Panic
- Psychology, Mass
- Psychology, Personal
- Social Work
- Stress Syndromes
- Survivor Guilt
- Working With the Bereaved
- Agricultural Production
- Business Continuity Planning
- Citizen Preparedness Programs
- Cooperation Between Civilian and Military Agencies
- Crisis Management
- Education
- Emergency Response Guidelines and Regulations
- Emergency Rooms
- Evacuation Planning
- Evacuation, Types of
- Exercise Planning
- Food Distribution Systems
- Healthcare
- Hospital Preparedness
- International Standards
- Language Issues and Barriers
- Levels of Nutrition
- Mass Casualty Management
- Media
- National Incident Management System (NIMS)
- National Standards
- Packaging and Tracing of Food
- Paramedics
- Political Economy of Food
- Provision of Food in Disasters
- Refugee Policy
- Refugees, Care of
- Reserve Storage and Transport
- Transportation
- Vulnerable Populations
- Incentives, Intergovernmental and Intersystem
- Mitigation, Benefits and Costs of
- Private Sector, Role in Mitigation
- Public Sector, Role in Mitigation
- Public-Private Interactions in Mitigation
- Regulatory Approaches to Mitigation
- Risk, Government Assumption of
- Risk, Individual Assumption of
- Structural (Engineering) Options for Mitigation
- Avalanches
- Diseases
- Droughts
- Earthquakes
- Fires, Forest
- Fires, Urban
- Floods
- Heat Waves
- Hurricanes/Typhoons
- Landslides
- Pest Invasions
- Sea Surges
- Tornadoes
- Tsunamis
- Volcanoes
- Winter Storms
- Bilateral Versus Multilateral Aid
- Domestic Corruption in International Disasters
- Domestic Politics in International Disasters
- Donations, National
- Donations, Personal
- Funding of International Relief
- Fundraising Cycles
- Politics in International Funding
- Rejection of International Aid
- Intergovernmental Relations and Preparedness
- Planning for Disasters, International
- Planning for Disasters, Local
- Planning for Disasters, National
- Political Support for Preparedness
- Preparedness, Function of
- Preparedness Policy Implementation
- Private Sector, Role in Preparedness
- Research-Based Disaster Planning
- Private Sector, Role in Recovery
- Recovery, International
- Recovery, Local
- Recovery, National
- Recovery, Phases of
- Recovery, Role of Governments in
- Private Sector, Role in Response
- Response, Management Strategies
- Response, Operational Strategies
- Response, Stress Impacts of
- Data Processing
- Early Warning and Prediction Systems
- Funding, U.S.
- Global Warming
- Modeling
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Real-Time Communications
- Research
- Technology
- Technology, Military
- Causes of Complex Emergencies
- Cross-Cultural Interactions
- Cycles of a Disaster
- Disaster Experience
- Education
- Emergency Management Resources
- Ethics of Charity Relief
- Ethnicity and Minority Status Effects on Preparedness
- Gender and Disasters
- Human Rights
- Humanitarian Intervention Versus Humanitarian Action
- Income Inequality and Disaster Relief
- Laws
- Personal Preparedness
- Politics, Domestic
- Politics in International Funding
- Protection of Civilians in Conflict Zones
- Public Policy
- Refugees
- Relief Versus Development
- Risk Communications
- Risk Management
- Risk Perceptions
- Social Impact of Disasters
- Training for Disasters
- Victimology
- United States, California and West Coast
- United States, Great Lakes
- United States, Hawaii and Pacific Territories
- United States, Mid-Atlantic
- United States, Midwest
- United States, Mountain States
- United States, National
- United States, Northeast
- United States, Northwest and Northern Plains
- United States, Southeast and Gulf Coast
- United States, Southwest
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