Definitions
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Resilience
Preparedness
Combatant Commander (UCOM, PACOM, SCOM)
Acronyms
BINGO-Big International Non-Government Organisation
CCA- Climate Change Adaptation
CCC-Civil-Military Coordination Center
CE-DAT Complex Emergency Database
CIMIC-Civil-Military Cooperation
CMCoord-Civil-Military Coordination
CRED- Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
DART- Disaster Assistance Response Team
Dep Sec Def - Deputy Secretary of Defense
DM-Disaster Management
DoD-Department of Defense
DRC-Disaster Response Center
DRR - Disaster Risk Reduction
EM-DAT- The International Disasters Database
FAA-Foreign Assistance Act
FDR-Foreign Disaster Relief
FEMA-Federal Emergency Management Agency
HA-Humanitarian Assistance
HA/DR-Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
HAO-Humanitarian Assistance Operation(s)
IGO-International Governmental Organisation(s)
IHO-International Humanitarian Organisation(s)
INGO-International Non-Government Organisation
J9 - Staff Office in Charge of Civil Military Operations
NGO-Non-Government Organisation
OCHA-Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN)
OFDA - Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance
Sec Def - US Secretary of DefenseÂ
UN-United Nations
UNDRR-United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
USAID- United States Agency for International Development