United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2002) Symposium on best practices in humanitarian information exchange, Geneva, Switzerland, 5-8 Feb 2002... 

Attempting to measure all 45 socio-economic indicators in any given post-disaster context is the desirable objective, but data availability constraints mean this is not always feasible. Quite often multiple sources of data are required to measure all indicators (e.g., reinsurance companies such as MiinichRe or SwissRe, international organization situation reports such as produced from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) or the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) case studies, such as the ones conducted by the World Bank (WB)). Consequently, this may lead to slight variations exist in estimates and totals. 

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