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Guide to Nongovernmental Organizations for the Military

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Acronyms and Abbreviations 1<br />

ACF Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger)<br />

ADRA Adventist Development and Relief Agency<br />

AFCENT Allied Forces Central Europe<br />

AFDRU Austrian Forces Disaster Relief Unit<br />

AOR area of responsibility<br />

ARC American Refugee Committee<br />

ASD Assistant Secretary of Defense<br />

BHR Bureau <strong>for</strong> Humanitarian Assistance<br />

CAP consolidated appeal process<br />

CARE Cooperative <strong>for</strong> Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc<br />

CBO community-based organization<br />

CCF China’s Children Fund<br />

CCP comprehensive campaign plan<br />

CDC U.S. Centers <strong>for</strong> Disease Control and Prevention<br />

CE-DAT complex-emergency database<br />

CHART Combined Humanitarian Assistance Response Training<br />

CHW community health worker<br />

CHW local community health worker<br />

CIDA Canadian International Development Agency<br />

CIDI Center <strong>for</strong> International Disaster In<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

CMO civil-military operations<br />

CMOC civil-military operations center<br />

CMPT Consequence management planning team<br />

CMR crude mortality rate<br />

COM chief of mission<br />

COOPI Cooperazione Internazionale<br />

COTS commercial off-<strong>the</strong>-shelf (technology)<br />

CRS Catholic Relief Services<br />

CTS commodity tracking system<br />

CWS Church World Service<br />

DAC Development Assistance Committee<br />

DALIS Disaster Assistance Logistics In<strong>for</strong>mation System<br />

DART Disaster Assistance Response Team, of OFDA<br />

DASD Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense<br />

DCHA USAID Bureau <strong>for</strong> Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance<br />

DFID Department <strong>for</strong> International Development (UK)<br />

DHA UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs (Office <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Coordination of Humanitarian<br />

Affairs effective January 1, 1998)<br />

1 Not all of <strong>the</strong>se terms are used in this manual. Many are general humanitarian community terms that are useful <strong>to</strong><br />

know while studying or working in any of <strong>the</strong> fields related <strong>to</strong> humanitarian assistance.<br />

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