Acronyms
ABC - Agência Brasileira de Cooperação (Brazilian Cooperation Agency)
AIMS – Aid information Management Systems
AMISOM - African Union Mission in Somalia
APF - Africa Peace Facility (EC)
ARTF – Aghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund
AU - African Union
BDRCS - Bangladesh Red Crescent Society
BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
CAP - Consolidated appeals process
CAR - Central African Republic
CBO - Community-Based Organisation
CERF - Central Emergency Response Fund
CERP - Commander’s Emergency Response Program (US)
CHAP - Common humanitarian action plan
CHF - Common humanitarian fund – a country level pooled fund mechanism
CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency
CPA - Comprehensive Peace Agreement (Sudan)
CRED - Centre for Epidemiology of Disasters
CRS – Creditor Reporting System (DAC)
CRS - Catholic Relief Services
CSO – Civil society organisation
DAC - Development Assistance Committee
DANIDA - Danish International Development Assistance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
DCD – Development Co-operation Directorate (OECD)
DDR - Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration
DEC – Disasters Emergency Committee
DEMA - Danish Emergency Management Agency
DFAIT - Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Canada)
DFID - Department for International Development (UK)
DoD - Department of Defense (US)
DPKO - UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
DPRK - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
DRC - Democratic Republic of Congo
DRC - Danish Refugee Council
DREF – Disaster relief emergency fund
DRR – Disaster risk reduction
DRT – Development Research and Training, Uganda
EC - European Commission
ECHO - EC Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection
ECOSOC - UN Economic and Social Council
EM-DAT – Emergency Events Database
ERC – Emergency Relief Coordinator
ERF – Emergency response fund – a country-level pooled funding mechanism
EU – European Union
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FDI – Foreign direct investment
FTS - Financial Tracking Service (UN OCHA)
GDP – Gross domestic product
GEM - Global Economic Monitor (World Bank)
GHA – Global Humanitarian Assistance (the programme)
GHD – Good Humanitarian Donorship
GNA – Global Needs Assessment (EC tool)
GNI – Gross national income
GoB - Government of Bangladesh
GPSF – Global Peace and Security Fund (Canada)
HIC - High income countries
HIPC – Heavily indebted poor countries debt initiative
HRF - Humanitarian response fund
IASC NATF - Inter-Agency Standing Committee Needs Assessment Taskforce
IATI - International Aid Transparency Initiative
ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross
IDP - Internally displaced person
IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
IfS - Instrument for Stability (EC)
IMC - International Medical Corps
IMF – International Monetary Fund
INGO – International Non-Governmental Organisation
IPEA - Institute of Applied Economic Research
IRC - International Rescue Committee
IRFFI - International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq
ISAF - International Security Assistance Force (NATO led force in Afghanistan)
ITF - Iraq Trust Fund
LDC – Least developed country
LIC - Low-income country
LMIC - Lower middle-income country
LNGO – Local non-governmental organisation
LRA - Lord’s Resistance Army
LTHAC - Long-term humanitarian assistance countries
MCDA - Military and civil defence assets
MDG - Millennium Development Goals
MDTF - Multi-donor trust fund
MINUSTAH - United Nations Mission in Haiti
MIRA – Multi-Cluster Initial Rapid Assessment
MONUC - United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
MSB – Government of Sweden Civil Contingencies Agency
MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières
NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NCA - Norwegian Church Aid
NGO – Non-governmental organisation
NPA – Norwegian People’s Aid
NRC – Norwegian Refugee Council
NRDF - National Disaster Response Fund (India)
ODA – Official development assistance
OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
OPT - Occupied Palestinian Territories
PRT – Provincial Reconstruction Team (Spain)
REO – Regional Economic Outlook (IMF)
ROC - Republic of Congo
SAF - Stabilisation Aid Fund (UK)
SALW – Small arms and light weapons
S/CRS – US State Department Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization
SCF-UK - Save the Children United Kingdom
SDRF - State Disaster Response Fund (India)
SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SPF - State and Peacebuilding Fund (World Bank)
SSR – Security sector reform
START - Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (Canada)
UAE - United Arab Emirates
UCDP - Uppsala Conflict Data Program
UMIC - Upper middle-income country
UN - United Nations
UNAMSIL – United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
UNCTAD – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UN DESA – United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
UNDP – United Nations Development Programme
UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
UNISDR - United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
UN OCHA – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UNMIL – United Nations Mission in Liberia
UNMIS - United Nations Mission in Sudan
UNRWA – UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
WB – World Bank
WEO - World Economic Outlook (IMF)
WFP - World Food Programme
