Collaborating Organizations
UN – Organizations
OCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, France
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn, Germany
UNHCR UN Refugee Agency, Geneva, Switzerland
UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for women, New York, USA
UN-ISDR International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Geneva, Switzerland
UNOOSA United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, Vienna, Austria
UN-Spider United Nations Platform for Space-Based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response, Vienna, Austria
UNWTO United Nations World Tourism Organization, Madrid, Spain
WHO World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
WFP World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
WTO World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
OIE World Organization for Animal Health, Paris, France
International Institutions
ADB Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
COE Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
IADB Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C., USA
ICSU International Council for Science, Paris, France
IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome, Italy
IFRC International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, Switzerland
ILO International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France
OSCE The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Vienna, Austria
The World Bank Washington D.C., USA
Swiss Federal Agencies
ETH Board Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
FEDRO Federal Roads Office, Bern, Switzerland
FOCA Federal Office of Civil Aviation, Bern, Switzerland
FOCP Federal Office for Civil Protection, Bern, Switzerland
FOPH Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland
MeteoSwiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Zurich, Switzerland
PLANAT Swiss National Platform for Natural Hazards, Bern, Switzerland
Development and Cooperation Agencies
SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Bern, Switzerland
SIDA Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Stockholm, Sweden
USAID US Agency for International Development, Washington D.C., USA
International Organizations
ACDM Asian Committee on Disaster Management, Bangkok, Thailand
ADRC Asian Disaster Reduction Centre, Kobe, Japan
AlpS Center for Natural Hazard Management, Innsbruck, Austria
CEDIM Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction, Karlsruhe, Germany
CIPRA Commission international pur la Protection des Alpes, Schaan, Liechtenstein
DARA Development Assistance Research Associates, Madrid, Spain
ECDC European Centre for Diseas Prevention, Stockholm, Sweden
Geneva Association Geneva, Switzerland
GDIN The Global Disaster Information Network, South Riding, Virginia, USA
GFMC Global Fire Monitoring Centre, Freiburg, Germany
GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems, Geneva, Switzerland
IAEM International Association of Emergency Managers, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
ICIMOD International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability, Ontario, Canada
IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Stockholm, Sweden
IHDP International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, Bonn, Germany
INDM International Conference on Integrated Natural Disaster Management, Tehran, Iran
IRGC International Risk Governance Council, Geneva, Switzerland
ISCRAM International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Managemet, Tilburg, Netherlands
IUAOAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
IUCN World Conversation Union, Gland, Switzerland
IUPESM International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, Stuttgart, Germany
IYPE International Year of Planet Earth, Trondheim, Norway
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington D.C., USA
OXFAM Oxford, UK
Planet Earth The International Year of Planet Earth, Trondheim, Norway
ProVention Consortium Geneva, Switzerland
SARAID Search and Rescue Assistance in Disaster, Bath, UK
Tearfund Zurich, Switzerland
WADEM World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Frankston, Australia
WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Washington D.C., USA
WSPA World Society for the Protection of Animals, London, UK
National Organizations
ACAR Academia Raetica, Davos Switzerland
AF The Ashai Glass Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
CCEP Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness, Burlington, Canada
Committee on Science and Technology Initiatives on Natural Hazards, Mitigation and Management Ontario, Canada
DKKV German Committee for Disaster Reduction, Bonn, Germany
DMISA Disaster Management Institute of Southern Africa, Primrose, South Africa
FAN Fachleute Naturgefahren Schweiz, St. Gallen, Switzerland
NDMO Nevis Disaster Management Office, St. Michael, Barbados
NGO Committee of Mental Health New York, New York, USA
OGE Austrian Association for Eartquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics , Austria
Pro Clim Forum for Climate and Global Change, Bern, Switzerland
Russian Risk Management Society Moscow, Russia
Science City Davos Davos, Switzerland
SGEB Swiss Society for Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Zurich, Switzerland
Sival Asiat Schweizerischer Verband der Ingenieur-AgronomInnen und der Lebensmittel-IngenieurInnen, Zolikofen, Switzerland
US Environment Protection Agency Washington D.C., USA
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Universities and Research Institutions
ACDS African Centre for Disaster Studies, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
ACTS African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi, Kenya
ARC Austrian Research Centers, Vienna, Austria
BNU Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Centro de Investigacion de Riesgos Falcon Universtiy, Península de Paraguaná, Venezuela
CERG Center of Study and Management of Geological Risk, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
CRED Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Brussels, Belgium
CUREE Consortium of Universities in Earthquake Engineering, Richmond, Canada
DiMTEC Disaster and Risk Management Training and Education for Africa, Bloemfontein, South Africa
DPRI Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan
ESC European Seismological Commission, Madrid, Spain
ESTSS European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands
EWI East-West Institute, Brussels, Belgium
European Commission Research, Brussels, Belgium
GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
HIT Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
IICSS International Institute for Crisis and Security Studies, University Florence, Florence, Italy
IUSS International Union of Soil Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands
Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
JRC Joint Research Centre European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
MRI Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland
NGI Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
UNU-EHS United Nations University, Bonn, Germany