Organization directory

Organization profiles of organizations whose work scopes have stakes in the field of disaster risk reduction.

The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) was established on 22nd of May 1964 by the four countries that border Lake Chad: Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad. The Republic of Central Africa joined the organization in 1996, Libya was admitted in 2008.

Organization type
Regional Intergovernmental Organizations

UNOSAT is the United Nations Satellite Centre, with a mandate to provide United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies with satellite analysis, training and capacity development, at their request, as well as to support Member States wi

Organization type
UN & International Organizations
Organization type
Governments

The Rural Fire Service is the world's largest volunteer fire fighting agency and protects some of the world’s most fire prone areas.

Organization type
Governments
Organization type
Governments

The main purpose of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) is to deliver weather and climate-related satellite data, images and products– 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Organization type
Academic & Scientific

ICTSD is an independent non-profit and non-governmental organisation that was established in Geneva in September 1996 to contribute to a better understanding of development and environment concerns in the context of international trade.

Organization type
Non Governmental Organizations

WAPMERR was created in 2001 in Geneva, Switzerland, as a non-profit organization for the purposes of reducing risk due to disasters and for rescue planning after disasters.

Organization type
Non Governmental Organizations

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