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Basic International Emergency Setting Field Manual
(BIES SS)
The purpose of the BIES manual is to help staff deployed in international emergency settings.
It is a baseline guide for field use.
The BIES is the result of the distillation of official documents and websites and recent red cross/ red crescent publications. The property of the publications quoted is of the respective authors. Any parts of this manual may be cited, copied and translated into other languages or adapted to meet local needs without permission, provided that the source is clearly stated.
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Technology and communication for a new humanitarian intervention.
Experimenting the website Cholera Cafe'
The book Technology and communication for a new humanitarian intervention. Experimenting the website Cholera Cafe' , published in collaboration with University of Rome la Sapienza and the Ministry for the Environment and Cooperation of Regione Lazio, analyses the evolution in humanitarian assistance stressing the importance of a multidisciplinary and polyvalent approach to health, underlying the primary role played by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in aiding the knowledge exchange and the continuous interaction between professionals working in different international scenarios. The authors will then lead the reader through the Cholera Cafe' experiment, a pilot website for practitioners deployed in international relief and development projects whether by NGOs or International Organizations.
Book specifications:
- Language : English
- 232 pages
Flashbacks Sri Lanka
Pubblished by ERI/RAI, Flashbacks Sri Lanka is a document describing the reality of post tsunami Sri Lanka (Eastern Province) as experienced by humanitarian operators on site.
The strength of the people and their smiles are the protagonists of this book that stands testimony to a piece of our history.
Book specifications:
- Languages : English and Italian
- 130 pages of B/W ad coloured photographs
- Unit cost: 25 Euros
Supplement of Le infezioni in Medicina, 2007
The italian scientific journal Le infezioni in Medicina has dedicated an entire supplement to the CC group that has produced a series of seven papers on relief and development ranging from infectious disease control and epidemiological surveillance to international law and psychological profiling.
Book specifications:
- Languages : Italian with English abstracts
- 47 pages
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Abstracts are downloadable from PubMED
This section contains documents produced by the CC group.