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Haiti Rescue Relief Recovery Documents

Acronyms Glossary and other Translation aids

collected by Al Mac

Alister William Macintyre research notes

11/27/2010

Version 3.4

Acronyms Glossary and other Translation aids

Document naming

This research notes document used to be named Acronyms for Haiti Relief.

Nov-09 I renamed it Acronyms Glossary for Haiti from Al Mac so it will show up nicer when I upload to Scribd (previous installment uploaded June 10-11).

Sep-30 I renamed it Glossary Acronyms Haiti because it will now be a companion research document to Glossary Housing Haiti which focuses just on the special terminology associated with:

Earthquake Rubble Debris

Housing Policy

Human Rights Housing

Land Owner Documentation

Secure Land Tenure

Transitional Shelters

Sep-30 action because I am splitting my research notes on above topics into separate documents, focused on pros & cons of solutions to different dimensions of Haiti Real Estate mess, where the new Glossary Housing will be a companion document to the entire new collection, containing info logically common to all of them. In the short term, Glossary Housing will have content not yet here in Glossary Acronyms but eventually anything added there, will also get copied here. Here will eventually have all the terminology. In time I may have other specialized glossaries, similar to the housing one I started, end of September 2010. Given the cholera epidemic, maybe one needed with focus on medical.

Introduction

Acronyms, Concepts, special Terminology, are defined here, in alphabetical sequence, to make it easy when we are reading some document from UN, NGO, or government what the heck is that? Look it up here.

The version # was started for the convenience of people who may have an earlier copy of this you go to one of the places where Al has uploaded this your version was dated July 15, of a certain size the latest upload you can see how much it has grown, whether worth you downloading it.

This is a perpetually updated directory of acronyms and related terminology found in documents on Haiti Humanitarian Relief Aid and Reconstruction, acquired from many different sources, to help locate info again when same topic repeats. Sometimes Al falls a bit behind on keeping some areas current. But as Al sees new examples of what the heck is that? in these documents, if not too busy, tracks down the meaning and updates this reference collection.

Collected by Alister Wm Macintyre (Al Mac), Evansville Indiana, while doing pro bono research support for various volunteers who want to do something constructive, so we dont have to witness another disaster like the Jan 12 quake which killed and estimated 350,000 then because of state-of-art of relief, another 35,000 died while waiting for help.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HaitiDisasterRecoveryResearch/files/Haiti%20Info%20Navigation/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/almacintyre http://haitirewired.wired.com/profile/AlisterWmMacintyreAlso on Facebookhttp://www.google.com/profiles/108007903544513887227

This type of info becomes more and more important as we see documents from UN and fields of specialty other than our own, where it is commonplace for us to see unfamiliar acronyms and terminology, often not explained in context. When using search engines to locate activity of interest, it really helps to know the correct name of the relevant NGO, UN or Gov agency.

In the real world, everyone uses acronyms and special technology within their profession, and most other people in same profession know what they mean. In Humanitarian rescue relief recovery we have people from many professions interacting communication, computing, construction, engineering, governments, medical, military, science-other, transportation, UN all their acronyms mixed together it is hard for most anyone to figure out sometimes.

Al Mac intends to add to this collection over time. At some point may split document into Acronyms only, Glossary only, Bookmarks only, etc. and may do a specialized topic collection as companion pieces to certain research focus areas.

Other people have similar efforts. Mentioned on HEAS is the following:

See Citizen Action Team Relief Database record for CTC/UTX/CRO (Medical) AcronymDefinitions:http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6790

I have seen many variants on what the Reconstruction Commission will be called. Here is an official list of the members. It currently has 24 members entitled to vote (12 representatives and 12 representatives Haitian international) and four members from other sectors without voting.

http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/list-of-representatives-haiti?xg_source=activity

These references are cut & pasted from many sources, merged alphabetically by acronym, for future reference. The data has come in helter skelter. Some day Al may have a break, and go do a scientific review of logical sources, to get this more comprehensive, but stuff has been pretty hectic since Jan 12 quake. Some acronyms do not look quite right, because the original phraseology is in a language other than English, or whatever shown here, or there are words missing that Al not yet identified.

Also see Internet slang.

http://mashable.com/2010/07/10/internet-slang-acronyms/

3W = UN Who What When Where (not 4W because some people cant count, or 3W was a standard, added to) AADA UN Audit of Disaster-Related Aid

Acceptable risk

Level of loss that a society or community considers acceptable, taking into account existing social, economic, political, cultural, technical, and environmental conditions. From an engineering standpoint, acceptable risk is also used to assess structural and non-structural measures to bring potential damage to a level where the danger to persons and property can be reduced, using accepted practice and/or codes based, inter alia, on a probability estimate and the cost/benefit ratio of these measures.

Accessibility for disabled includes

1. blind, on crutches, wheel chair, elderly, pregnant none discriminated against

2. build shelter higher than anticipated flood waters

3. build slope for wheel chair etc. that can in fact be navigated

4. consider visual, hearing, speech, mental and intellectual impairments

5. emergency exits, but infants not wander off

Accountability is a western culture concept, where money donated for a particular purpose, ought to be expended for that purpose, in a wise and efficient manner. Because accountability is not yet part of most of the non-profit non-governmental organization humanitarian aid culture, I wrote a blog series on the state of this art in Haiti Rewired.Part I defined what we mean by accountability quality standards.

Part II clearly demonstrated the lack of accountability in the humanitarian aid culture.

Part III which I never completed, addressed the need for donors to do better due diligence in funding the few charities which do in fact practice accountability, instead of continuing to support lack of accountability.

ACE Accumulated Cyclone Energy

ACF Action Contre la Faim (INGO)

ACHR Asian Coalition for Housing Rights

ACT Action by Churches Together International http://www.actalliance.org/ is an alliance of 100 churches and church-related organizations that work together in humanitarian assistance and development.

ACTED Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (HQ = Paris France) http://www.acted.org

ADB Asian Development Bank

ADF Americas development Foundation http://www.adfusa.org/

ADH LAutorit pour le Dveloppement dHati

ADMD Asociacin Dominicana de Mitigacin de Desastres (The Dominican Disaster Relief Association)

ADRA Adventist Development and Relief Agency http://www.adra.org/site/PageServer

AECID Spanish Agency for International Cooperation

AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

AIRPD Australia Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development

AJF Youth Association of Fond'Oies

AJK Azad Jammu and Kashmir

ALBA Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas

Alert

Permanent mindset triggered by an announcement or other means of conveying information (alarm) issued to warn the population and leaders of an expected event with major implications from a safety standpoint.

ALNAP = Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action

AMIS African Union Mission in Sudan

AMCU Aid Management and Coordination Unit, Ministry of International Cooperation

AMR Annual Ministerial Reviews

APN Port au Prince Sea Port Authority

APROSIFA Association for the Promotion of Integral Family Healthcare

ARC American Refugee Committee http://www.arcrelief.org/site/PageServer?pagename=haiti_media

ARC American Red Cross

ARI Allied Recovery International

ARI Acute respiratory Infections

ARIS Acute respiratory Infection

ARV Anti Retroviral

AssessmentAn evaluation of needs, to help set priorities.

ACAPS Assessment Capacities Project

ACF Action Contre la Faim

ALNAP Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitarian action

AWG Assessments Working Group http://groups.google.com/group/assessmentshaiti

AU African Union

AVSI Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internationale

BBC British Broadcasting Corporation

BCDE = Electoral Office of Legal Departemental West

BCLC = U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center BIM = Building Information Modeling

Biodiversity Biodiversity, or biological diversity, is the variability among living organisms from all sources including inter alia terrestrial, marine and aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part.

BPM Brigade de la Protection des Mineurs Child Protection Brigade within Haiti Police

BPRM (U.S.) Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration

BRR Aceh and Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency

BUGEP Bureau de Gestion du Prscolaire (MoEs Preschool Education Unit)

Cadastral = Land surveying in the Digital Age.

CAM Community Asset Management

CAMEP. . . . . . . . . . . . Centrale Autonome Mtropolitaine dEau Potable

CAP = Consolidated Appeal Process: fund raising for implementation of HAP = Humanitarian Action Plan

Capacity Constraint There is a maximum volume that can move through safely and correctly, such as cargo on a public road, through an airport or sea port. We can increase capacity by improving the facility, or adding a new facility, such as parachuting supplies in, using military landing craft on coast where there is no port, land Cessna on public highway.

Capacity to handle disasters

Different ways in which women and men marshal their capacities and organize themselves to use available resources to cope with the different adverse effects of a disaster. This entails resource management, both in times of normalcy and during crises or adverse situations. In general, building capacity to cope with disasters makes people more resilient in the face of both natural and man-made hazards. This has a gender dimension, given that men and women may have similar or different capacities depending on whether they can gain access to and use of available resources.

Capacity building

Efforts targeting the development of human skills or the infrastructure of a society in a given community or organization, necessary to reduce the level of risk.

CARE Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere

CARICOM Caribbean Community

Carrying Capacity The maximum number of a given organism, or population, that a particular environment can sustain.

Catastrophe

Similar to disaster, but indicative instead of a situation of maximum or extreme loss.

CBM Christian Blind Mission

CCAT Cross Cluster Assessment of Trends

CCCM Camp Coordination Camp Management

CCPR = International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm CCTRS = Corail Cesselesse Temporary Resettlement Site

CDA Capital Development Authority

CDAC Communications with Disaster Affected Communities CDGRD . . . . . . . . . . . Provincial Committee for Risk and Disaster Management

CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-only memory

CEB Chief Executives Board of the UN CEP Haitis Provisional Electoral Council

CEPAL Comisin Econmica para Amrica Latina y el Caribe

CERF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Central Emergency Relief Fund

CES Centre dEducation Spciale (National NGO for Special Education)

CFS Child Friendly Spaces or Child Friendly Schools (You would think a school for children, by definition, should be child-friendly, however this not the case in Haiti, due to a lack of standards enforcement, and quake damage. 90% Haiti schools are private.)

CFSAM Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission

CFU = Colony Forming Unity (faecal coliforms)

CFW Cash for Work

CFSAM crop and food security assessment mission

CHAP = Common Humanitarian Action Plan

CHIC Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haiti

Cholera See Al Mac research document on Haitis Cholera outbreak which started 2010 October in the Arbonite River Valley. Of interest to this Glossary might be the different ways the disease might suddenly appear in a nation, after being apparently absent for 40 years, then once it has arrived, there are many ways for it to spread. You dont catch it by breathing air of an infected person, or touching them while they are alive, or touching same objects they touched, you catch it by the infection going into your mouth. However, the way you touch them, can then mean the bacteria is on your hands, which you can handle stuff which will later go in your mouth.

Human Carrier: Typically only 25% of the people, who carry the bacteria in their gut, even show the symptoms, so someone in a region of the world, which has the epidemic, might travel to a region of the world which does not yet have it. If there is poor sanitation there, the human waste products (toilet # 2) can get into the food chain to other humans.

Contaminated Water: Food prepared or washed using water which has the cholera bacteria, will deliver the bacteria to whoever eats that food. That water could have been contaminated by a carrier or marine life. If you bathe in contaminated water, and some of it gets into your mouth, you just caught cholera.

Marine Life: Cholera bacteria is carried in a variety of plankton and sea food. It can remain dormant for decades, then bloom in the appropriate climate conditions, like those recently for Haiti.

Animal Carrier: Farm Animals do not get this disease, but they carry the bacteria in their gut, so if food is not properly cooked, all sorts of problems can be communicated.

Insects may carry vibrio cholerae and deposit it on food, water or other surfaces that humans come in contact with and subsequently contract cholera, when their living conditions involve poor sanitation.

Dead Bodies which died of cholera: Someone who has died of cholera is covered with the vibrio, and anyone touching the body without adequate knowledge about self protection and good hygiene is at risk of infection!!!!!

During the last moments of life people in the advanced stages of this illness are losing bodily fluids from intestinal reflux and diarrhea. These bodily fluids contain the vibrio and these fluids, as well as any other moist surface upon which they are found including the body, are infectious until that body is properly disinfected and all external orfices to the gastrointestinal system 'plugged' with chlorine saturated rags/sponges. Any one touching or otherwise handling that body is subject to contamination and infection.

The clothes, bedding, floors, and all surfaces upon which these bodily fluids are found are sources of infection!!!Investigation of several cases during this outbreak including the very first clinical cases in Lafito, revealed that the victims had not traveled to or within an area where cholera was being reported, their only connection was that they had attended a funeral ceremony for a cholera victim, shortly before becoming infected, and had laid hands on the body.

CIAT = Gov of Haiti Presidential Executive Secretariat

CIDA Canadian International Development Agency

CILSS Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel

CIMO = Haiti equivalent of SWAT within National Police

CINs = Cartes didentit nationale = Haiti voter identity cards

CIOB Chartered Institute of Building

CIRH Commission for the Interim Reconstruction of Haiti

Climate change

The climate of a place or region changes when, over a long period (generally decades or longer), significant and irreversible trends are observed from a statistical standpoint that are beyond a reasonable doubt. Climate change may arise from natural and/or man-made atmospheric processes that span long periods. It should be noted that, in the context of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, the definition of climate change is narrower, given that it applies only to changes directly or indirectly attributable to human activity. In essence, climate change seems to be linked to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, although greenhouse gas emissions occur naturally. As a result, the global temperature appears to be rising. Information currently available is not enough to allow for an understanding of the scope of regional and local effects.

Climate variability

This term refers to all atmospheric processes that are cyclical in nature and are linked to physiography and hydrometeorology. It can be described from the standpoint of physics and mathematics. It pertains to the factors and parameters governing the climate, with individual cases and differences, hence the reason it is called climate variability. For example, tropical cyclones (depressions, storms, hurricanes), as low pressure vortices, vary each season in terms of their intensity, number, and path. To date, there is no clear-cut evidence that man is capable of influencing this phenomenon.

Cluster Approach :- Concept of partnership between UN agencies, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, international organizations, and NGOs, within a related industry. Partners work together towards agreed common humanitarian objectives at global and field level to facilitate inter-agency complementarily by maximizing resources.

Twelve Clusters are: Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items, Camp Coordination and Camp Management, Education, Food, Logistics, Nutrition, Protection, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Agriculture, Early Recovery, Emergency Telecommunications, and Health.

Many of the clusters have sub-cluster further specialization.

Decentralized cluster mechanisms cover regions outside of Port-au-Prince.

Logistics/Telecommunications, Health, Emergency Shelter, WASH, and Nutrition clusters are active in the Dominican Republic.

From time to time some clusters are merged, or proposed to merge, within some disaster, such as: Shelter & non-food items; Agriculture & Nutrition.

When unique circumstances warrant, such as severe weather, the cholera epidemic, new clusters are formed to deal with those circumstances.

CMAM Community Management of Acute Malnutrition

CMO Camp Management Operations

CMU Carnegie Mellon Univ

CNGRD. . . . . . . . . . . National Committee for Risk and Disaster Management

CNIGS National GIS cartography, including department level

CNSA Commission Nationale sur la Scurit Alimentaire (National Commission on Food Security)

COFCOR Permanent Committee of Foreign Ministers

Complicated sounds to an American audience like someone being slippery or evasive or talking down to the simple, genuine, honest people who just want a straight answer, even when it really is complicated. The real world is complicated. It always has been. Politics are complicated, as are issues of race; ethnicity; culture; religion; and humanitarian aid work.

CONANI Dominican republic National Child Protection Authority

Consultation An exchange of information, comments, ideas and suggestions.

Consultation outputs are considered as inputs for decision-making; they should be taken into account, but need not determine decisions.

CoPs Communities of Practice

COU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Centre for Emergency Operations

COVs = (Haiti Voting) Centres des oprations de vrification

CP Child Protection

CP Contingency Plan

CPA Crime Pattern Analysis

CPC Climate Prediction Center

CPI consumer price index

CPIO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Comit Permanent Inter Organisations (French abbreviation for the IASC)

CRC = UNICEF Convention on Rights of the Child http://www.unicef.org/crc/

CRED Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters

CRO = A center of oral rehydration: with staff non-medical in a neighborhood or camp: made the rehydrating oral and decontamination. Need for staff minimum 3 persons, including one for ensuring decontamination. Need to organize the home visit of the sick and the IEC to the community.

CRS Catholic Relief Services http://crs.org/haiti/

CRWRC Christian Reformed Church World Relief http://crwrc.org

CSC Coordination Support Committee

CSCCA = Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative Disputes

CSI Coping Strategy Index, eg. Food security, waterproof shelter, police protection that works

CSTD = UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development

CT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Committee of the International Community

CTC = Center for the Treatment of Cholera: a center set up for the treatment of cholera with a staff recruited for this 40 to 300 beds which receives the sick suspects of cholera. In the case ideal, there are tents for rehydration iv and tents or rooms for the phase of re-convalescensce. Capable of processing of complications such as pulmonary edema. Open 24 on 24/ 7 on 7. Receives the sick who come spontaneously and cases referred to it. Staff: doctors, nurses, sanitizer, agents for preparation of chlorine solutions, guardian, etc..

CTP Cash Transfer Programme

CWGER = Cluster Working Group on Early Recovery

CWS Church World Service

DAC OECD Development Assistance Committee

DAD Development Assistance Database

DanChurchAid http://www.danchurchaid.org/ is a Denmark faith based NGO.

DCF Development Cooperation Forum

Debris what can be in a Disaster Debris Pile?

Dead bodies, and body parts

E-wastes such as computers, telephones and TVs

White goods such as refrigerators, washing machines, dryers

Hazardous materials such as bleach

Radioactive materials from hospitals, industries and

laboratories

Explosive gases from households, hospitals, industries

Petroleum products from gas stations, power plants

PCBs from transformers

Ammunition from houses, army camps and police stations

Disaster Rescue workers waste products, without garbage pickup

DEC Disasters Emergency Committee

Dpartements (10) of Haiti, administrative jurisdictions similar to states or provinces. Four of these departments received almost 400,000 of the initial over 500,000 displaced: Artibonite (capital: Gonaves), Centre (capital: Hinche), Grande Anse (capital: Jrmie) and Nippes (capital: Miragone). This according to the Red X. Later figures said 600,000 to 700,000 displaced inside Haiti, and 200,000 crossed border into Dominican Republic.

DESA Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the UN

Destruction (damage)

Negative impact on property, capital, infrastructure on any other type of physical structure (including natural structures) resulting from an external event such as a disaster.

DFID UK-Britain Department for International Development

DGS: Direction du gnie scolaire

DHS Demographic and Health Survey

DINEPA Direction Nationale de lEau Potable (National Unit for WASH Water and Sanitation)

Disaster A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources. Major disruption in the functioning of a community or society, when human, material, economic or environmental losses must be addressed with resources originally earmarked for development. A disaster is the materialization of risk. It is the result of the complex combination of a hazard and the manifestation of vulnerability, when preventive capacities or measures are inadequate to mitigate the negative effects of risk.

Displaced persons persons who, for different reasons or circumstances, have been compelled to leave their homes. They may or may not reside in their country of origin, but are not necessarily regarded legally as refugees.

DM = Disaster Management

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DPA Darfur Peace Agreement

DPC = Haiti Department of Civil Protection (Police) Civil Protection Directorate

DPKO = UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations

DPT3 Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus vaccine

DTM Displaced Tracking Matrix

DR Dominican Republic

DR Disaster Reduction, which tends to be more logical

DRI Direct Relief International

DRR Disaster Risk Reduction, which tends to be more physical

DRSS Disaster Response Support Service of Bioforce and RedR within SPHERE project

DSNCRP Document de Stratgie Nationale pour la Croissance et pour la Rduction de la Pauvret (PRSP Document)

DSSE Department Sanitaire du Sud-Est

DSRSG Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General

DSNCRP. . . . . . . . . . . National Strategy for Growth & Poverty Reduction Paper

DTM = Displacement Tracking Matrix = where the people end up in what numbers

DWG Disability Working Group

DWR Disaster Waste Recovery

EAD Economic Affairs Division

Early recovery Recovery that begins early in a humanitarian setting. Early recovery is not intended as a separate phase within the relief-development continuum, but rather as an effort to strengthen the effectiveness of the linkage. Early recovery encompasses livelihoods, shelter, governance, environment and social dimensions (such as HIV/Aids and gender equality as cross-cutting issues), including the re-integration of displaced populations

Earthquake Scales there are several. Here is Modified Mercalli Scale (Richter, 1958)

MMI value

Description

I

Not felt. Marginal and long period effects of large earthquakes

II

Felt by persons at rest, on upper floors, or favorably placed

III

Felt indoors. Hanging objects swing. Vibration like passing of light trucks. Duration estimated. May not be recognized as an earthquake

IV

Hanging objects swing. Windows, dishes, doors rattle. Vibration like passing of heavy trucks; or sensation of a jolt like a heavy ball striking the walls. Standing motor cars rock. Glasses clink. Crockery clashes. In the upper range of IV, wooden walls and frame creak

V

Pictures move. Felt outdoors; direction estimated. Sleepers wakened. Liquids disturbed, some spilled. Small unstable objects displaced or upset. Doors swing, close, open. Shutters, pictures move. Pendulum clocks stop, start, change rate

VI

Objects Fall. Felt by all. Many frightened and run outdoors. Persons walk unsteadily. Windows, dishes, glassware broken. Knickknacks, books, etc., off shelves. Pictures off walls. Furniture moved or overturned. Weak plaster and masonry D cracked. Small bells ring (church, school). Trees, bushes shaken (visibly or heard to rustle)

VII

Nonstructural Damage. Difficult to stand. Noticed by drivers of motor cars. Hanging objects quiver. Furniture broken. Damage to masonry D, including cracks. Weak chimneys broken at roof line. Fall of plaster, loose bricks, stones, tiles, cornices (also unbraced parapets and architectural ornaments. Some cracks in masonry C. Waves on ponds; water turbid with mud. Small slides and caving in along sand or gravel banks. Large bells ring. Concrete irrigation ditches damaged

VIII

Moderate Damage. Steering of motor cars affected. Damage to masonry C; partial collapse. Some damage to masonry B. none to masonry A. Fall of stucco and some masonry walls. Twisting, fall of chimneys, factory stacks, monuments, towers, elevated tanks. Frame houses moved on foundations if not bolted down; Loose panel walls thrown out. Decayed piling broken off. Branches broken from trees. Changes in flow or temperature of springs and wells. Cracks in wet ground and on steep slopes

IX

Heavy Damage. General panic. Masonry D destroyed; masonry C heavily damaged, sometimes with complete collapse; masonry B seriously damaged. (General damage to foundations.) Frame structures if not bolted, shifted off foundations. Frames racked. Serious damage to reservoirs. Underground pipes broken. Conspicuous cracks in ground. In alluvial areas sand and mud ejected, earthquake fountains, sand craters

X

Extreme Damage. Most masonry and frame structures destroyed with their foundations. Some well-built wooden structures and bridges destroyed. Serious damage to dams, dikes, embankments. Large landslides. Water thrown on banks of canals, rivers, lakes, etc. Sand and mud shifted horizontally on beaches and flat land. Rails bent slightly.

XI

Rails bent greatly. Underground pipelines completely out of service

XII

Damage nearly total. Large rock masses displaced. Lines of sight and level distorted. Objects thrown into the air

EC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . European Commission

ECD Early Childhood Development

ECHO European Commissions Humanitarian Aid Office

ECLAC UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribbean

Ecologically sensitive area Habitats such as wetlands, aquifer recharge zones, important wildlife habitats and so forth which are, or might be, sensitive to degradation or destruction by human activities.

ECOSOC Economic and Social Council of the UN

Ecosystem A functional unit consisting of all the living organisms (plants, animals and

microbes) in a given area, as well as the non-living physical and chemical factors of their

environment, linked together through nutrient cycling and energy flow. An ecosystem can be of any size a log, pond, field, forest, or the Earths biosphere but it always functions as a whole unit. Ecosystems are commonly described according to the main type of vegetation (e.g. forest ecosystem, old-growth ecosystem or range ecosystem).

Ecosystem integrity The degree to which the fundamental ecological processes (e.g. water and nutrient cycling, the flow of energy and biodiversity) are maintained.

Ecosystem services The benefits which an ecosystem provides, which include storing water, preventing soil erosion, nutrient recycling and serving as a source of genetic diversity.

EFA Education for All

EFSA Emergency Food Security Assessment

EID Early Infant Diagnosis

E-JOC. Extended Joint Operations Center

ELDA the Evaluations/European andLanguage Resources Distribution Agency

EM-DAT Emergency Disasters Data Base

Emergency Disasters Data Base website. Belgium: EM-DAT, CRED, University of Louvain. http://www.em-dat.net/disasters/list/php

Emergency (or disaster) management

Organization and management of resources and responsibilities in the handling of all emergency matters, in particular preparedness, response, and rehabilitation. Emergency management involves the plans, structures, and arrangements established to jumpstart the regular activities of government or volunteer agencies, as well as the private sector, in a comprehensive and coordinated matter, so as to respond to the entire spectrum of emergency needs. This process is also known as disaster management.

EMMA = Emergency Market Mapping Analysis

EMMUS Enquete de morbiditie, mortalite et utilisation des services

EMOPS UNICEF's Office of Emergency Programmes

ENA Environmental Needs Assessment

ENAT Environmental Needs Assessment Team

ENG = English

Environmental Consequences think check list of what needs to be dealt with.

Environmental Consequences of Landslide

Damaged infrastructure as a possible secondary environmental threat, e.g. leakage from fuel storage facilities Secondary impacts by temporarily displaced people

Impacts associated with reconstruction and repair to damaged infrastructure (e.g. deforestation, quarrying, waste pollution)

PEOPLE CONSEQUENCES include

getting buried & maybe killed

critical roads blocked

Environmental Consequences of an Earthquake

Loss of productive systems, e.g. agriculture

Damage to natural landscapes and vegetation

Possible mass flooding if dam infrastructure weakened or destroyed, or drainage canals filled with debris

Waste accumulation additional waste disposal sites required

Secondary impacts by temporarily displaced people

Impacts associated with reconstruction and repair to damaged infrastructure (e.g. deforestation, quarrying, waste pollution)

Damaged infrastructure as a possible secondary environmental threat, e.g. leakage from fuel storage facilities

PEOPLE CONSEQUENCES include

Being in or near a building that falls down & maybe killed or maimed

Loss of critical infrastructure

Environmental Consequences of Volcanic Eruption

(There are many active volcanoes in the Americas)

Loss of productive landscape and crops being buried by ash and pumice

Forest fires as a result of molten lava

Secondary impacts by temporarily displaced people

Loss of wildlife following gas release

Secondary flooding should rivers or valleys be blocked by lava flow

Damaged infrastructure as a possible secondary environmental threat, e.g. leakage from fuel storage facilities Impacts associated with reconstruction and repair to damaged infrastructure (e.g. deforestation, quarrying, waste pollution)

PEOPLE CONSEQUENCES include

Get out of way, or get killed ash can also be deadly

Loss of critical infrastructure

Environmental Consequences of any Hurricane/Cyclone/Typhoon

Loss of vegetation cover and wildlife habitat

Short-term heavy rains and flooding inland

Mud slides and soil erosion

Saltwater intrusion to underground fresh water reservoirs

Soil contamination from saline water

Damage to offshore coral reefs and natural coastal defense mechanisms

Waste (some of which may be hazardous) and debris accumulation

Secondary impacts by temporarily displaced people

Impacts associated with reconstruction and repair to damaged infrastructure (e.g. deforestation, quarrying, waste pollution)

PEOPLE CONSEQUENCES include

Get out of way, or get killed

Loss of critical infrastructure

Environmental Consequences of Flood

Ground water pollution through sewage overflow, health implications with mosquitos

Loss of crops, livestock and livelihood security

Excessive siltation may affect certain fish stocks

River bank damage from erosion

Water and soil contamination fertilizers used

Secondary impacts by temporarily displaced people

Beneficial sedimentation in floodplains or close to river banks

PEOPLE CONSEQUENCES include

Get out of way, or get killed

Serious damage to critical infrastructure

Roads blocked

Environmental Consequences of Tsunami

Ground water pollution through sewage overflow

Saline incursion and sewage contamination of groundwater reservoirs

Loss of productive fisheries and coastal forest/plantations

Destruction of coral reefs

Coastal erosion and/or beneficial deposition of sediment on beaches/small islands

Marine pollution from back flow of wave surge

Soil contamination

Loss of crops and seed banks

Waste accumulation additional waste disposal sites required

Secondary impacts by temporarily displaced people

Impacts associated with reconstruction and repair to damaged infrastructure (e.g. deforestation, quarrying, waste pollution)

PEOPLE CONSEQUENCES include

Get out of way, or get killed

Loss of critical infrastructure

Environmental Consequences of Drought

Loss of surface vegetation.

Loss of biodiversity

Forced human displacement.

Loss of livestock and other productive systems.

Environmental Consequences of Epidemic

Loss of biodiversity

Forced human displacement

Loss of productive economic systems

Introduction of new species

Environmental Consequences of Forest Fires (Haiti safe from this for a while)

Loss of forest and wildlife habitat

Loss of biodiversity

Loss of ecosystem services

Loss of productive crops

Soil erosion

Secondary encroachment for settlement or agriculture

EPF Emergency Programme Fund

EPI Expanded Programme of Immunisation

Epidemic = the occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness (or an outbreak) with a frequency clearly in excess of normal expectancy.

The public health community has not settled on a solid definition of outbreak except in a very broad sense, which means many people are using outbreak and epidemic interchangeably.

Pandemic is when it is happening in multiple nations. In Al Mac opinion, cholera is now a pandemic, since multiple nations of Africa and Asia have it out-of-control.

Also see infectious disease impact scale (IDIS).

EQ Earth Quake

ER = Early Recovery (part of IASC Cluster System)

ERC Emergency Response Coordinator ERT Emergency Response Team ESC emergency shelter and transitional shelter ESD Education for Sustainable Development

ERRA Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority

ERRF Emergency Response Relief Fund

ERUs Emergency Response Units ETA = Estimated Time of Arrival

ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emergency Telecommunications Cluster

EU = European Union EU/JRC European Unions Joint Research Centre

Extremely Vulnerable Groups comprise:

a. Female- and Child-headed households

b. Households of six or more, with four children of school age

c. Physically and mentally disabled

d. Elderly

FACT Field Assessment and Coordination Team FADH Haitian Armed Forces (none exist, but some people have called for replacing the UN troops in Haiti, with such) FAO UN Food and Agriculture Organization, HQ in Rome Italy FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions FB = Facebook, a social network

FCS food consumption score

FederationInternational Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies

FEWS NET. . . . . . . . . Famine Early Warning System Network

FH Food for Hungry http://fhrelief.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/launch-of-fh-haiti/

FIGO/SOGC International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

FOKAL Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libte (National NGO on Education and Culture)

Fondefh Fondation pour le Dveloppement de la Famille Hatienne

FOSREF Fondation pour la Sante Reproductive et lEducation Familiale

FP focal persons

FPU = Formed Police Units, supplied by individual nations to work in UN missions

FPGL Fondation Paul Grin Lajoie (International Development NGO)

FR = French

FRC Federal Relief Commission

FSNAU Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit

FTR family tracing and reunification

FTS Financial Tracking System

FY Fiscal Year

G77 Group of 77 Developing Nations

GACI. =. International Coordination Support Group

GAM Global Acute malnutrition

GAM Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (Free Aceh Movement)

GARR Support Group for the Repatriated and Refugees

GAVI Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation

GBV Gender Based Violence

GCMS Geographical coordination and Monitoring Section

GCST = The Global Campaign for Secure Tenure, organized thru UN-Habitat advocates housing rights for everyone

GCUG = The Global Campaign on Urban Governance, organized thru UN-Habitat

GDP Gross Domestic Product

GEMAP Governance and Economic Management Assistance Plan

GenCap Gender Standby Capacity Project

Gender

Specific roles, responsibilities, needs, functions, and interests of women and men, generally based on social influence and specific to a given culture, but different, however, from the concepts of gender that refer to the biological differences between men and women, or to sexual orientation.

Gender analysis

Assessment process of specific, socially influenced differences between men and women that are learned, change over time, and vary from one country to another.

Gender dimension of a disaster

Different effects on and roles of men and women when a disaster occurs. A more complex analysis of gender will also take into account the varying impacts of disasters on different groups, in particular the elderly, infants and children, and persons having special or physical disabilities.

Gender-based needs assessment

Process by which the specific needs of women, girls, men, and boys are identified.

GET World Bank Global Expert Team

GFDRR Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

GHD Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative

GHESKIO Groupe Hatien dEtudes de Sarcome de Kaposi et dInfections Opportunistes (National NGO on HIV/AIDS)

GIA Governors Island Agreement

GIEWS Global Information and Early-Warning System

GIS Geographical Information System

GoH Government of Haiti

GNI Gross National Income

GNP Gross National Product

GPS Global Positioning System

GPOI Global Peace Operations Initiative (military peacekeeping)

GRT Global Relief Technologies

GTEF Groupe de Travail pour lducation et la Formation (Presidential Commission on Education and Training)

HAC Humanitarian Aid Commission

HAP = Humanitarian Accountability Partnership

HAVEN House and community building charity

Hazard

Physical circumstance or event, natural process, or human activity which, having attained or exceeded a specific intensity, poses a potential danger in terms of the loss of human life, injury, or damage to social and economic goods or environmental degradation. Hazards include latent conditions that may pose a danger in the future, arising from a variety of sources: natural processes (geological, hydrometeorological, biological, etc.) or man-made processes (environmental degradation, technological dangers, etc.). Hazards may be individual, joint, sequential, or combined in terms of their origins and effect

HC Haiti Commission

HC/RC = Humanitarian Coordinator/Resident Coordinator

HCT Humanitarian Country Team

HDI Human Development Index

HEAS Haiti Epidemic Advisory System

250+ members, which includes international NGOs, UN agencies, USG agencies, private individuals, unaffiliated charitable organizations, and journalists facilitated by operational biosurveillance analysts. The analysts provide a "switchboard" tactical function with over 10 years' experience in the domain, having participated in forecast, detection, and early warning of nearly 250k infectious disease events in every country of the world (including Antarctica) across 43 languages. We are the same team (ex-Veratect) that provided warning of the Mexico crisis to CDC and WHO, later recognized to be the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Check out their Haiti Operational Bio-Surveillance site.

HEDR = Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief, a discussion group on Linked In HELP ACT Haiti Economic Lift Program (facilitate export to USA clothing manufactured in Haiti) HERME Harmonized Emergency Risk Management Initiative HI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Handicap International HIC Humanitarian Information Centre

HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus

HNMC = Haitian National Meteorology Center (weather forecasts)

HNP Haitian National Police

HNRCS Haitian National Red Cross Society HODR Hands on Disaster Relief

A household comprises all those sharing one hearth.

HP Hygiene Promotion cluster

HPN = Humanitarian Practice Network

HQ Headquarters

HRC Haiti Response Coalition

HRC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haitian Red Cross

HRD Hurricane Research Division

HRS Human Rights Section of MINUSTAH

HTPC Haiti Operations Center

HUG Haiti Under God

HWTSS Hygiene, Water Treatment, and Safe Storage

HX = Humanitarian Exchange

Hygiene Improved Practice includes safe water storage, treatment, and handling.

IAAC Independent Audit Advisory Committee of UN

IADB Inter-American Development Bank

IARTE Inter-Agency real time Evaluation

IASC UNs Inter-Agency Standing Committee

IBESR Institut de Bien-Etre Social et de Recherches (MoSAs Institute on Social Welfare and Research)

IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization HQ in Montreal Canada

ICC International Criminal Court is apart from the UN

ICD International Cooperation Directorate, Ministry of Finance and National Economy ICF Interim Cooperation Framework

ICJ International Court of Justice of the UN, located at The Hague, Netherlands

ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross

ICRH Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti

ICSID International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

ICT Information Communication Technology

ICVA International Council of Voluntary Agencies

IDA International Development Association

IDB Inter-American Development Bank

IDB Islamic Development Bank

IDEJEN Initiative pour le dveloppment des jeunes

IDNDR International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

IDP Internal Displaced People (refugees within home nation)

IDPSS Internally Displaced Persons Surveillance System

IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development HQ Rome Italy

IFC International Finance Corporation

IFES International Foundation for Electoral Systems

IFIs International Finance Institutions

IFRC = International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

IHE Institut Hatien de lEnfance (National Haitian Child Institute)

IHSI Institut Haitien de Statistiques (National Institute of Statistics)

IIA Institute of Internal Auditors

IIRO International Islamic Relief Organisation

IJDH = Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti

ILAS Institute of Latin American Studies

ILF International Lifeline Funds

IMAGE Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity

IMC International Medical Corps

IMCI Integrated Management of Childhood Illness

IMEP Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

IMF International Monetary Fund

IMPP Integrated Mission Planning Process Working Group

IMR Infant Mortality Rate

INEE Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies

Infectious Disease Impact Scale (IDIS), from Haiti Operational Bio-surveillance:

IDIS Category 0. Unreported infectious disease event. Daily, routine infectious diseases are handled at this level, and provision of warning about these diseases is not deemed relevant. It is likely there are multiple unreported cholera cases now inside Port-au-Prince, for instance, and in Artibonite and perhaps elsewhere.

IDIS Category 1. Reported infectious disease event. The typical Category 1 infectious disease event reported by a community reflects a sensitivity to public health or medical significance. No other significant features indicative of immediate public health or medical infrastructure impact, public anxiety, or civil unrest triggered by the event are noted.

IDIS Category 2. Infectious disease event associated with routine organized response. Category 2 events often reflect locally well-known diseases that nevertheless generate a demand for organization-level time-sensitive action. This action is local routine.

IDIS Category 3. Infectious disease event associated with non-routine organized response. Category 3 events are essentially the beginnings of a community crisis.

IDIS Category 4. Infectious disease event associated with social disruption. Category 4 events highlight when organized response has occurred, yet significant social disruption has been documented.

IDIS Category 5. Infectious disease event associated with disaster indicators.

IDIS Category 6. Infectious disease event associated with apocalyptic indicators. This is an operationally rare finding, associated historically with Ebola and Nipah virus outbreaks. We do not consider this category to represent a likely scenario in Haiti.

Also see Epidemic.

I-NGO International NGO

INSTRAW International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women

INTOSAI UN Working Group Accountability for Audit of Disaster-Related Aid

IOM International Organization for Migration

IPC Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

IRC International Rescue Committee

IRD International Relief and Development http://www.ird-dc.org/

IRDWG Inclusion, Rehabilitation, Disability Working Group

IRIN Integrated Regional Information Network

ISDR International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

ISF Integrated Strategic

IT Information Technology

ITC International Trade Center

ITU International Telecommunication Union HQ Geneva Switzerland

IYCF Infant and young child feeding

JCICS Joint Council on international childrens services

JEN Japan Emergency NGOs

JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency

JIU Joint Inspection Unit (oversight body of the United Nations system)

JMAC Joint Mission Analysis Center of the UN Police

JOTC Joint Operations and Tasking Center

JPHRO Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organisation

JTF Joint Task Force (US military)

KID Convention for Democratic Unity (Haiti political party)

KOFAVIV Commission of Women Victim-to-Victim

KORE-N Coordination to Rebuild the Nation (in Creole means support us)

LAS League of Arab States

LC = Logistics Cluster of UN NGO relief efforts transportation, military, cargo handling, etc.

LCU = Landing Craft Units (a unit, in UN context, means a vehicle for cargo)

LET = Logistics Emergency Teams

LI = Linked In, a social network for professionals

LLH Life Line Haiti

LLIN = Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets LOG = Logistics Operational Guide

Losses

Decline in economic resources, including means of subsistence (revenue, salaries, profit, private income), following damage caused by an external event such as a disaster).

LoU Letter of Understanding

LRRD Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development

MADRE Mouvement Alternatif pour la Dcentralisation et la Reconstruction

Mairie is a French word meaning the Mayor's office, or the City Council.

MAP Mangrove Action Project

MapAction. Supporting humanitarian operations with real time mapping. London: MapAction http://www.mapaction.org

MARNDR. Ministry for Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development

MAST Ministre des Affaires Sociales et du Travail - Ministry of Social Affairs

MCM Municipality Cluster Mechanism

MDG Millenium Development Goal

MdM Mdecins du Monde

MENFP: Ministre de l'ducation nationale et de la formation professionnelle

MERLIN Medical Emergency Relief International

http://www.merlin-usa.org

MHPSS Mental Health and psycho-social support

MICAH Civilian Support UN Mission in Haiti

MICS Multiple Cluster Inidator Survey

MICT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ministry for the Interior and Territorial Entity

MIGA Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

The ministries of the Haitian government are:

Development (page does not exist)" Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development

exist)" Ministry of Commerce and Industry

not exist)" Ministry of Finance and Economy

exist)" Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cults

not exist)" Ministry of Information and Coordination

not exist)" Ministry of Interior and National Defense

Ministry of Justice

(page does not exist)" Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports

exist)" Ministry of Planning and Foreign Aid

not exist)" Ministry of Public Health and Population

Communications (page does not exist)" Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communications

Ministry of Social Affairs

MINUSTAH Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation dHati (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) (UN Peacekeepers)

MINUSTAH/ HDCS.Humanitarian and Development Coordination Section of MINUSTAH

MINUSTAH/ HR. . . . Human Rights Section of MINUSTAH

MIPONUH United Nations Civilian Police Mission

Mitigation

Structural and non-structural measures applied to contain the negative effects of natural, technological, and environmental hazards.

Mitigation of Risk is a concept Al Mac is well familiar with in computer security terms we can predict in advance about some defenses being weak, because of lack of corporate funding, and lot of successful attacks reported on similar installations, so we have extra layers of defenses, alerts, extra human focus, where we most expect trouble. In the area of natural disasters, there is excellent science on weather prediction, geographical terrain known, past patterns of where tornados tend to go, based on shape of hills, so it can be predicted in advance where flooding most likely. Earthquake science cannot predict when next quake will arrive, but can give us pretty good idea where a risk exists of one of what intensity, so that building codes there can specify how good structures need to be to survive what is coming.

MJPATN Mouvement des Jeunes pour Hati Tout Neuf

MJRPG Mouvement des Jeunes Rvolutionnaires de Petit Gove

MJSP Ministre e de la Justice et de la Scurit Publique - Ministry of Justice

MLC Max Lock Centre

MNF Multi-National Force

MODEP Democratic Popular Movement (a Haiti Political Party)

MoH Ministry of Health

MoM Meeting Minutes

MoP Ministre de la Planification et de la Coopration Externe - Ministry of Planning

MoU Memorandum of Understanding

Movement, the = the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies, and national societies

MP Member of Parliament (Britain)

MPCE Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation

MPP Peasant Movement of Papay

MRCs Migrant Resource Centres

MRM Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism

MSB Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency

MSF Mdecins sans Frontires (Doctors without Borders)

MSH Management Sciences for Health

MSPP Ministre de la Sant Publique et de la Population - Ministry of Health

MT Machine Translation (see http://www.allenkeys2languages.org/creole-languages-and-technologies/ for significance)

MTPTC The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

MUAC Middle Upper Arm Circumference

MUDHA Movement of Dominican Women of Haitian Descent

MYR Mid-Year Review

NatCat Natural Catastrophes

NCA Norwegian Church Aid

NDBC US National Data Bouy Center

NEP = New Emergencies Policy

Needs

Humanitarian interventions in the areas of recovery and development, required to close the gap between the shortages or losses identified and the situation desired by victims in a post-conflict or post-disaster situation. Total needs identified or noted at the local level can be summarized in a recovery framework for a given sector or country.

Needs assessment

This assessment, initiated by humanitarian agencies, entails the identification of basic needs and what is lacking to meet these needs (based on standards, taking into account vulnerabilities, risks, and capacities) and the estimation of the external assistance needed (beyond the community, province, department, or country) to cover these shortages. Needs assessment for recovery purposes (emergency or comprehensive) and for development purposes calls for a broader vision of needs covering institutional, policy-related, and infrastructure areas.

NFI.. Non-food Items

NGO Non-Governmental Organizations

NHC National Hurricane Center

NIS National Statistical Institute

NNF National Notario Foundation

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC Norwegian Refugee Council

NSGRP. . . . . . . . . . . . National Strategy for Growth & Reduction of Poverty

NSP Non-State Providers

NWFP North-West Frontier Province

OAS Organization of American States

OBI Operation Blessing International

OCEDAH Office of Community Education and Diversity Affairs

OCHA United Nations Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs

ODA Official Development Assistance

ODG Overseas Development Group

ODI = Overseas Development Institute, based in Britain

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

OECD-DAC Organization for Economic Cooperation and DevelopmentDevelopment Assistance Committee

OFDA. . . . . . . . . . . . . Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance

OHA Official Humanitarian Assistance

OHCHR United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

OHFCOH = Operation Hope for Children of Haiti

OIC Organisation of the Islamic Conference

OIOS the Office of Internal Oversight Services for UN

OLS Operation Lifeline Sudan

OMS = "Organisation Mondiale de la Sante", or World Health Organization /PAHO

ONI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . National Identity Office

OPC Office of the Protection of Citizens

OPS = OrganizationPanamericaine de la Sante ( French) - Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud ( Spanish) ; English =PAHO

OPS = Operations

OSIG Office of the Secretary General of the UN

OSZ Outside Shake zone

OTPs Outpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centers

PAI Programa Ampliado Imunizacion

PADF Pan American Development Foundation

PAHO Pan American Health Organization

Pandemic see Epidemic

PaP = Port au Prince, capital of Haiti

PAPDA Platform for Alternative Development in Haiti

Participation A process by which stakeholders are active and equal partners in decision making, and may have shared ownership and control over project/programme design and implementation (and also eventual evaluation).

PBC Peace Building Commission

PBR Programme Budget review

PCA Partnership Cooperation Agreements

PCNB Points de Conseil de Nutrition Pour les Bbs

PDA Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

PCI Project Concern International http://www.projectconcern.org

PDNA = Post Disaster Needs Assessment and Recovery Framework PDSRSG Political Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-GeneralPERT Diagram Program Evaluation and Review Technique a flow chart of inter-relationships. Arrows, from one box to another, in this context indicate pre-requisites, where progress in the pre-requisite will have astronomical benefit for the activity to which the arrow points. Haiti cannot resolve permanent housing without first solving: land ownership documentation; and the rubble debris. Making major progress with reforestation will do wonders for agriculture, stop soil erosion, reduce pollution, and make hillsides less susceptible to mudslides. However, there are green revolution pre-requisites to sustained reforestation. An understanding of many such relationships, summarized in a PERT diagram, can help prioritize building Haiti back better. Projects, which do not use such diagram techniques, can either fail, or be massively more expensive than had they utilized such a system.

Pesadev Perspectives pour la Sant et le Dveloppement

PFII Permanent UN Forum on Indigenous Issues

PM = Prime Minister

PMCC = Project Management Coordination Cell

PMTCT Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission

PNH Police Nationale dHaiti (Haiti National Police)

PPE Personal Protective Equipment

PPT Microsoft Power Point

PRCS Pakistan Red Crescent Society

Private Al Mac will now be appending this word to the end of downloaded files naming from UN NGOs when Al sees terminology, similar to the following, associated with the distribution of the documentation, or when Al presumes from context that this applies. This kind of terminology was absent from all documents that Al Mac downloaded for the first approx 100 days of UN NGO cluster reporting on Haiti activities, then it began to appear sporadically.

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ProCap. . . . . . . . . . . . Protection Standby Capacity Project

PRODEP Community-Driven Development Project

Protected area Portions of land protected by special restrictions and laws for the conservation of the natural environment. They include large tracts of land set aside for the protection of wildlife and its habitat; areas of great natural beauty or unique interest; areas containing rare forms of plant and animal life; areas representing unusual geologic formations; places of historic and prehistoric interest; areas containing ecosystems of special importance for scientific investigation and study; and areas that safeguard the needs of the biosphere.

PRSP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

PSEA Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

PUICA = The Civil Registry Program (PUICA), is a project currently being implemented by the OAS in Haiti to improve a digital civil registry system to normalize the situation aggravated by the catastrophe that affected the country earlier in 2010, which led to the collapse of public offices and the lost of citizens' identity cards. The program's immediate goal is to establish a system to update the electoral census for the upcoming presidential and legislative elections in November. For more info see OAS news on Relief Web.

PWYF = Publish What You Fund

QCF Qatar Charitable Foundation

QIP Quick Impact Project

RAT Recovery Assessment Team

RC Resident Coordinator

RCRC Red Cross and Red Crescent

RCS Red Cross/Crescent Society

Recovery comes after Rescue and Relief. The damaged infrastructure needs to be rebuilt back better than it was before, so the people are less likely to suffer so much in the next natural disaster.

RedR (pronounced 'Red R') http://www.redr.org/ is an international NGO that provides recruitment, training and support services for humanitarian professionals across the world.

Red X = Al Mac abbreviation for Red Cross

Rehabilitation Different people use same terminology with somewhat different meanings.

The full, or at least partial, restoration of degraded landscapes and/or impaired ecosystem services to their state prior, for example, to the land being occupied as a site for transitional shelter for displaced people.

Upgrading existing buildings to accommodate evolving needs, such as support for disabled people, support for new kinds of telecommunications, improve fire safety.

Rehabilitation

Start of a post-crisis recovery process (disaster- or conflict-related). Rehabilitation entails measures in-tended to restore to the affected community, insofar as possible and as quickly as possible, the pre-disaster quality of life in the areas of governance, subsistence, shelter, the environment, and the social sphere. This includes the reintegration of displaced populations and human safety.

Relief typically comes after Rescue and before Recovery. Until damaged infrastructure and economy can be rebuilt, the people need delivery of essential supplies (medical, food, water, shelter) in such a way that it does not sabotage recovery (such as killing the local agriculture by competing with capitalism to its destruction).

RENHASSA National Haitian Network for Food Sovereignty and Food Security

Relocation Camps, for Haiti disaster victims, were designated safer areas than where they were found at risk of flooding, mudslides, etc. where the more risky areas could not be mitigated, or repaired. So the people at more risk were given some choices:

Return to wherever they were before, if their homes now designated as safe, and they were economically able to move there (pay the rent with their livelihoods gone);

Move in with some other host family, such as in rural areas, which were not getting sufficient aid to displaced victims;

Or move to the safer relocation camps.

Rescue typically comes before Relief. In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, there are people at extreme risk of dying, because they are buried by an earthquake, mudslide, etc. or need to be rapidly moved out of the way of a flood.

RICS Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

RIH Haiti = Humanists International Network

RINAH Rapid Initial Needs Assessment for Haiti

Risk

Literal definitions:

PETIT LAROUSSE; 2009

Risk:

Masculine noun. (in Italian risco, from the Latin resecum, something that cuts)

Possibility or probability of an event viewed as negative or damaging. The risks of war are increasing.

Exposure to danger or an adverse event that is fairly likely to occur: to run the risk of failure. A pilot who takes too many risks.

Engaging in an activity that could be advantageous, but which entails the possibility of danger: To have an appetite for risk.

Possible harm or disaster covered by insurance companies in return for a premium.

Summary: Possible occurrence of an event that does not depend entirely on the will of the parties and which may result in the loss of an object or any other kind of damage.

Specific definitions: Risk:

Possibility of damage likely to impact exposed elements, depending on their characteristics, situation, conditions, and spatiotemporal context; consequences and causes are not always predictable.

Combined probability that the occurrence of a situation in a specific time and place will be sufficiently intense to produce damage owing to the intensity of the event and the fragility of the exposed elements, namely, the economy, human life, and the environment.

Risk management

Systematic process for developing administrative and organizational decisions, as well as operational capacities and the overall application of policies and strategies to reduce the impact of natural hazards and environmental degradation linked to man-made activities. This includes the application of the findings of scientific research, observation, and monitoring of natural processes that pose hazards, as well as

structural and non-structural measures, with a view to avoiding (preventing) or limiting (mitigating or preparing for) the adverse effects of hazards. When a country wishes to protect its population and assets, may establish a risk management policy based upon the following basic strategies, which incorporate ways to understand the causes, consequences and remedies in distinct dimensions:

Risk identification: Incorporates individual and collective understanding and perceptions, social representations and objective evaluations (i.e. scientific, engineering, statistical) of the causes and consequences of risk: hazards (type, intensity, distance, recurrence); vulnerability (degrees of exposure and fragility, socio-economic value of possible losses, potential alterations to the human quality of life -deaths, injuries, trauma, forceful displacements-, and the impact to the environment and natural assets, services and functions

Risk reduction: Includes all ex-ante measures to reduce the physical impact of adverse natural events. Also known as prevention and mitigation, it means intervention against the loss generating factors, particularly the vulnerability, since from certain levels of intensity and beyond, it is not possible to re-duce the natural hazards

Risk financing, transfer: The ensemble of ex-ante measures aimed at improving the capacity and resilience to cope with the financial consequences of disasters through: reserve funds, contingent credit and insurance. It requires ex-ante assessment of risk in economic terms. This is often done using complex risk models focusing at reducing the impact of natural hazards. To this effect, it is required to establish ex-ante the thresholds for retention/transfer of risk based upon definitions of accepted vs. acceptable risk. The next step is to build probabilistic scenarios, models and metrics to estimate losses: i) Probable Maximum Loss (PML), ii) Average Annual Loss (AAL) corresponding to the expected loss averaged on a yearly basis, and iii) Loss Exceedance Curves (LEC). These metrics are determined for various return periods (e.g. 50, 100, 250, 500 years). Comparative scenarios can also be performed to demonstrate the effects of intervention versus non-intervention over damage and losses and replacement costs

Emergency and disaster management: Actions, defined ex-ante, to be performed when risk is materialised; they must be as efficient and effective as possible to reintegrate the quality of life of the population affected and avoid rebuilding vulnerability by incorporating preparedness, alert-alarm systems, response, rehabilitation (immediate) and reconstruction (mediate to long term)

Risk management capacity

Combination of all available forces and resources within a community, society, or organization that can mitigate the level of risk or the effects of a disaster. This also includes the development of institutional, financial, policy-related, and other resources, such as technology at different levels and in different sectors of the society.

RJNA Rapid Joint Needs Assessment

R-JOC Regional Joint Operations Centers

RMB Renminbi

RPCA Food Crisis Prevention Network

RR Rapid Response

RSS Really Simple Syndication

RTF Rich Text Format

RUIF Ready-to-use infant formula

RUTF Ready to Use Therapeutic Food

RWH Rainwater Harvest Study

SAB Stand-by-Agreements

SAG Strategic Advisory Group

SAI Supreme Audit Institutions

SAJ-Veye-Jo Solidarity among Youth

SAM Severe Acute Malnutrition

Satisfaction can be measured as a function of:

e. Dignity, privacy, and suitability

f. User views being properly taken into account

g. Outcomes of interventions met or exceeded expectations

h. Complaints mechanism is in place

SC Save the Children (Alliance)

SCs Stabilization Centers

SDA Structural Damage Assessment

Secretariat = the Geneva-based Secretariat of the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies, and its regional Zones

SGB Secretary-General's Bulletin

SEIPH Secretary of State for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities

SEL Service dEntraide et de Liaison (see http://www.allenkeys2languages.org/creole-languages-and-technologies/ for significance)

SESPAS Dominican Ministry of Health

SFP Engineers without Borders San Francisco Professionals

SGST Small Group Scenario Trainer

SGST is a web-based scenario role-play for multi-player, small group teams that allows participants to join in remotely. The objective is to stimulate critical thinking, problem solving and learning on contingency planning.

SHELTER

When we see the word Shelter in UN NGO Gov documents about Haiti, it usually means Emergency Shelter from rains, such as tents tarps etc. ideally on land not at high risk of flooding or mudslides or landslides.

When we see OTHER folks using the word Shelter, they usually mean Housing that meets Building Standards that includes protection from Hurricanes, Earthquakes, nite rapes, surprise evictions, and other hazards that are normal reasonable expectations for the people of Haiti.

SHELTER SAFER STRATEGY OF GOVERNMENT OF HAITI

This strategy proposes five basic options for the affected population:

1. Return to a safe home, after evaluation by trained engineers

2. Return to a safe plot, after debris has been removed from the site

3. Stay with a host family

4. Stay in a current spontaneous settlement, if conditions at the site can be made to meet minimum standards in the medium term

5. For those who do not have another option, move to a temporary relocation site planned by the Government

SIF Social Investment Fund

SIL Summer Institute of Linguistics (see http://www.allenkeys2languages.org/creole-languages-and-technologies/ for significance)

SLL Surviving Limb Loss

SMCRS Service Mtropolitain de Collecte de Rsidus Solides (Haiti municipal solid waste management authority)

SMS Short Message Service

SNEP. Service National dEau Potable

SNGRD National System of Risk and Disaster Management

SOFA Solidarite Fanm Ayisyn (National NGO for Women)

SOFA Solidarity with Haitian Women

SOUTHCOM U.S. Southern (military) Command

SPHERE Project http://www.sphereproject.org/content/view/91/58/lang,english/ has two core beliefs:

first, that all possible steps should be taken to alleviate human suffering arising out of calamity and conflict, and

second, that those affected by disaster have a right to life with dignity and therefore a right to assistance.

SPNS Strategic Plan for National Salvation

SR = Santo Domingo, capital of Dominican Republic

SRCS Sudanese Red Crescent Society

SRSG Special Representative of the Secretary-General

SSA Special Service Agreement

START Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force

STC = Save the Children

STD Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Subsistence

The capacities and assets (including material and social resources) as well as activities necessary for subsistence purposes. Subsistence is sustainable when, in the face of pressures and shocks, capacity and assets can be preserved in both the present and future, and the natural resource base or financial means that support individuals/families are not undermined. This includes the means to support oneself as well as resources derived from wealth or reserves that can be tapped, should the need arise. This term refers to the resources needed to support a family or a group, their source of income, their resources for survival (the minimum needed for subsistence purposes), and resources to obtain socially acceptable facilities to live decently. In post-conflict or post-disaster situations, restoration of employment and subsistence means are government priorities in an emergency recovery context and are therefore part and parcel of the emergency response to lessen the dependence of victims on foreign aid.

T-Shelter Transitional Shelter (quake and cyclone proof shelter in Haiti for people displaced by last such disaster)

TDC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Concertation Table

TdH Terre des Hommes (I-NGO)

TDRA Transitional Darfur Regional Authority

TLAs Three Letter Abbreviations (not wanted in an Acronym-free Zone)

TLS Temporary Learning Spaces

TOR Terms of Reference

TOT terms of trade

Transitional settlement settlement and shelter resulting from conflict and natural disasters, ranging from emergency response to durable solutions.

TRN Tsunami Recovery Network

TSs Transitional Shelters

TS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sectoral Table

TWG Technical Working Groups

U5 Under 5 years old

U5MR Under-five Mortality Rate

UDMO departmental public order unit (of HNP)

UK United Kingdom (Britain)

UMCOR United Methodist Committee on Relief

UN United Nations

UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS - Programme Acceleration Funds

UNAMID UNAU Mission in Darfur

UNCDF United Nations Capital Development Fund

UNCHR United Nations Commission on Human Rights

UNCRD United Nations Centre for Regional Development

UNCRI United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute

UN-CSW United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

UNCT United Nations Country Team

UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNDAC. United Nations Disaster Assessment & Coordination

UNDAW Division for the Advancement of Women

UNDMTP United Nations Disaster Management Training Programme

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, HQ Paris France

UNESD United Nations Economic and Social Development

UNFPA United Nations Population Fund

UNGA United Nations General Assembly

UN-HABITAT United Nations Human Settlements Programme

UNHC UN High Commissioner

UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNHRC United Nations Human Rights Council

UNICEF United Nations Childrens Fund

UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization HQ Vienna Austria

UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women

UNISDR = UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. http://www.unisdr.org

UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research

UNMIH United Nations Mission in Haiti

UNMOVIC United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission

UNO United Nations Organization

UNODOC UN Office on Drugs and Crime

UNOH (Not UN) Union of Haitian Educators

UNOPS United Nations Office for Project Service

UNPOL United Nations Police

UNRISD United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

UNSC UN Security Council

UNSOG United Nations Special Operations Group

UNU United Nations University

UNV United Nations Volunteers

USA = United States of America

USAID United States Agency for International Development

USAR Urban Search and Rescue

USD = US Dollars

USIP US Institute for Peace www.usip.org

UTC = Unit for the treatment of Cholera: A health center, mobile clinic or hospital that has built a space to treat cholera patients, or in a tent or ente or in a room of the structure. UTC is capable of making oral and intravenous rehydration. Capacity 2-20 beds. Opening: at least 12 hours. Staff physician, infimires, sanitation officer, health worker.

UTX = Unit for treatment of Cholera: a health center, mobile clinic or hospital alone which has built a space to be able treat patients cholera, or in a tent or ente or in a house of the structure. THE UTC is able to make oral rehydration and intravenous use. Capacity 2-20 beds. Opening: at least during 12 hours. Staff : doctor, nurses, agent sanitation, health worker

VEDEK Vive Espoir pour le Developpement de Cap-rouge

Volunteers, Guidance from US CDC for Relief Workers and Others Traveling to Haiti for Earthquake Response.

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/content/news-announcements/relief-workers-haiti.aspx

VOSOCC Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Center

VRQ Very Rapid Qualitative Approach

VSLA Village Savings and Loan Associations

VSN Volontaires de la Scurit Nationale

Vulnerability The extent to which a community, structure, service or geographic area is likely to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of a particular hazard.

Vulnerability

Probability, based on the intensity at the time the hazard materializes, that it could cause damage to property, services, and persons, depending on the levels of exposure and fragility. It impacts the quality of human life (deaths, injured persons, victims, displaced persons, psychosocial trauma, etc.), socioeconomic value, and the environment.

WASH Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Water catchment An area, often a combination of mountain ranges and basins, that catches rainfall or snow. Water from rain or snowmelt is absorbed into the soil and stored in underground reservoirs, or is fed into a river, aquifer, or lake.

Water vulnerabilities in Haiti.

5. Max Vulnerability:

- Localities supplied from wells and shallow located in areas of high population density.- Localities with the water table near the surface and high population density.- Places that draw water directly superficial (gullies, lakes, rivers ...) in an area of highpopulation density or downstream of a high density area population.

4. High vulnerability:

- Localities supplied from shallow wells in an area of low population concentration.- Localities supplied from surface water in an area of low population density.- Localities fed from a source either captured or not captured in an with a protected area very vulnerable.

3. Average Vulnerability:

- Localities fed from a source uncaptured drains a deep aquifer.

2. Low vulnerability:

- Localities supplied from wells located in confined aquifer (deep and with an impermeable layer which separates the saturated zone of the non-saturated).- Localities fed from a source that captured drains a confined aquifer.

1. Very Low Vulnerability:

- Localities fed from a catchment area.

WFP World Food Programme, HQ in Rome Italy

WG Working Group

WHO World Health Organisation

WHO/PAHO World Health Organisation/Pan American Health Organisation

Widows

i. Members of ethnic or socio-economic minorities

j. Landless

k. Computer records which should be part of a larger package of related information, but some of it has gone missing widows are the pieces of info left over, without the whole story available.

WINNER The Watershed Initiative For National Natural Environmental Resources http://www.usaid.gov/helphaiti/documents/winner_100408.html

WORD Als docs in Microsoft Office Word 2003, unless otherwise stated

World Heritage Site A designated and protected site of great cultural significance or a

geographic area of outstanding universal value.

WP Work Package

WP Word Processing

WRC Womens Refugee Committee

WT Water Trucking

WTO World Trade Organization

XL Al Mac abbreviation for Microsoft Excel 2003

YCSD Young Child Survival and Development

Zanmi Lasante Partners in Health

Copies of this collection have been shared with: many connections via e-mail, Facebook Notes, Haiti Rewired Definitions, Yahoo Group Haiti Disaster Recovery Research, early editions on Linked In Group: Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief.

April 6 launched with 46 Count above

April 29 = 230 Acronyms estimated into 7 pages

May 2 started page 10 (mainly UN break downs added)

May 6 started page 11 (mainly Donor Diversity research)

May 8 now 16 pages (mainly Environmental Glossary additions)

May 28 starts page 25 (mainly Financial Risk perspectives)

Al has been randomly sharing with new contacts.

June up to page 27 (misc. UN cluster stuff)

July 13 it is just over 30 pages input slowed down prior to the 6 month reports

Al Mac has also been maintaining some other reference documents to support needs of various people seeking to help Haiti, such as:

Al's Haitian Documents Directory Word (500+ references downloaded so far)

Glossary of Housing Challenges in Haiti

Haiti Cholera Epidemic

Haiti Election 2010 information (Al stopped following closely shortly before Cholera Epidemic exploded)

Haiti Transitional Housing Projects Word (Contact info on outfits installing it & de-mystify Haiti Land Ownership complications)

Situation Report 2010 May 27 Word (Al Mac version of Haiti reality)

UN Documents Navigation Guide

Simple in HYPERLINK "http://talesfromethehood.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/american-culture-104-simple-kind-of-man/" American Culture.

Info provided by Dr. James Wilson V, MD, Executive Director of Praecipio International

HYPERLINK "http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/haiti_operational_biosurv/" http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/haiti_operational_biosurv/