Glossary Acronyms and other Terminology Translation aids 9/30/2010 1:02:50 PM Page 1

Haiti Rescue Relief Recovery Documents
Acronyms Glossary and other Translation aids
collected by Al Mac
Alister William Macintyre research notes
11/27/2010

Version 3.4

Acronyms Glossary and other Translation aids

Document naming

This research notes document used to be named “Acronyms for Haiti Relief.”

Nov-09 I renamed it “Acronyms Glossary for Haiti from Al Mac” so it will show up nicer when I upload to Scribd (previous installment uploaded June 10-11).

Sep-30 I renamed it “Glossary Acronyms Haiti” because it will now be a companion research document to “Glossary Housing Haiti” which focuses just on the special terminology associated with:

·  Earthquake Rubble Debris

·  Housing Policy

·  Human Rights Housing

·  Land Owner Documentation

·  Secure Land Tenure

·  Transitional Shelters

Sep-30 action because I am splitting my research notes on above topics into separate documents, focused on pros & cons of solutions to different dimensions of Haiti Real Estate mess, where the new “Glossary Housing” will be a companion document to the entire new collection, containing info logically common to all of them. In the short term, “Glossary Housing” will have content not yet here in “Glossary Acronyms” but eventually anything added there, will also get copied here. Here will eventually have all the terminology. In time I may have other specialized glossaries, similar to the housing one I started, end of September 2010. Given the cholera epidemic, maybe one needed with focus on medical.

Introduction

Acronyms, Concepts, special Terminology, are defined here, in alphabetical sequence, to make it easy when we are reading some document from UN, NGO, or government … what the heck is that? Look it up here.

The version # was started for the convenience of people who may have an earlier copy of this … you go to one of the places where Al has uploaded this … your version was dated July 15, of a certain size … the latest upload … you can see how much it has grown, whether worth you downloading it.

This is a perpetually updated directory of acronyms and related terminology found in documents on Haiti Humanitarian Relief Aid and Reconstruction, acquired from many different sources, to help locate info again when same topic repeats. Sometimes Al falls a bit behind on keeping some areas current. But as Al sees new examples of “what the heck is that?” in these documents, if not too busy, tracks down the meaning and updates this reference collection.

Collected by Alister Wm Macintyre (Al Mac), Evansville Indiana, while doing pro bono research support for various volunteers who want to do something constructive, so we don’t have to witness another disaster like the Jan 12 quake which killed and estimated 350,000 then because of state-of-art of relief, another 35,000 died while waiting for help.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HaitiDisasterRecoveryResearch/files/Haiti%20Info%20Navigation/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/almacintyre
http://haitirewired.wired.com/profile/AlisterWmMacintyre
Also on Facebook
http://www.google.com/profiles/108007903544513887227

This type of info becomes more and more important as we see documents from UN and fields of specialty other than our own, where it is commonplace for us to see unfamiliar acronyms and terminology, often not explained in context. When using search engines to locate activity of interest, it really helps to know the correct name of the relevant NGO, UN or Gov agency.

In the real world, everyone uses acronyms and special technology within their profession, and most other people in same profession know what they mean. In Humanitarian rescue relief recovery we have people from many professions interacting … communication, computing, construction, engineering, governments, medical, military, science-other, transportation, UN … all their acronyms mixed together … it is hard for most anyone to figure out sometimes.

Al Mac intends to add to this collection over time. At some point may split document into Acronyms only, Glossary only, Bookmarks only, etc. and may do a specialized topic collection as companion pieces to certain research focus areas.

Other people have similar efforts. Mentioned on HEAS is the following:

See Citizen Action Team Relief Database record for CTC/UTX/CRO (Medical) Acronym
Definitions:
http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6790

I have seen many variants on what the Reconstruction Commission will be called. Here is an official list of the members. It currently has 24 members entitled to vote (12 representatives and 12 representatives Haitian international) and four members from other sectors without voting.

http://haitirewired.wired.com/profiles/blogs/list-of-representatives-haiti?xg_source=activity

These references are cut & pasted from many sources, merged alphabetically by acronym, for future reference. The data has come in helter skelter. Some day Al may have a break, and go do a scientific review of logical sources, to get this more comprehensive, but stuff has been pretty hectic since Jan 12 quake. Some acronyms do not look quite right, because the original phraseology is in a language other than English, or whatever shown here, or there are words missing that Al not yet identified.

Also see Internet slang.

http://mashable.com/2010/07/10/internet-slang-acronyms/

·  3W = UN Who What When Where (not 4W because some people can’t count, or 3W was a standard, added to)

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·  AADA UN Audit of Disaster-Related Aid

Acceptable risk / Level of loss that a society or community considers acceptable, taking into account existing social, economic, political, cultural, technical, and environmental conditions. From an engineering standpoint, acceptable risk is also used to assess structural and non-structural measures to bring potential damage to a level where the danger to persons and property can be reduced, using ―accepted practice‖ and/or codes based, inter alia, on a probability estimate and the cost/benefit ratio of these measures.

Accessibility for disabled includes

1.  blind, on crutches, wheel chair, elderly, pregnant … none discriminated against

2.  build shelter higher than anticipated flood waters

3.  build slope for wheel chair etc. that can in fact be navigated

4.  consider visual, hearing, speech, mental and intellectual impairments

5.  emergency exits, but infants not wander off

Accountability is a western culture concept, where money donated for a particular purpose, ought to be expended for that purpose, in a wise and efficient manner. Because accountability is not yet part of most of the non-profit non-governmental organization humanitarian aid culture, I wrote a blog series on the state of this art in Haiti Rewired.

Part I defined what we mean by accountability quality standards.

Part II clearly demonstrated the lack of accountability in the humanitarian aid culture.

Part III which I never completed, addressed the need for donors to do better due diligence in funding the few charities which do in fact practice accountability, instead of continuing to support lack of accountability.

·  ACE Accumulated Cyclone Energy

·  ACF Action Contre la Faim (INGO)

·  ACHR Asian Coalition for Housing Rights

·  ACT Action by Churches Together International http://www.actalliance.org/ is an alliance of 100 churches and church-related organizations that work together in humanitarian assistance and development.

·  ACTED Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (HQ = Paris France) http://www.acted.org

·  ADB Asian Development Bank

·  ADF Americas development Foundation http://www.adfusa.org/

·  ADH L’Autorité pour le Développement d’Haïti

·  ADMD Asociación Dominicana de Mitigación de Desastres (The Dominican Disaster Relief Association)

·  ADRA Adventist Development and Relief Agency http://www.adra.org/site/PageServer

·  AECID Spanish Agency for International Cooperation

·  AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

·  AIRPD Australia Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development

·  AJF Youth Association of Fond'Oies

·  AJK Azad Jammu and Kashmir

·  ALBA Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas

Alert / Permanent mindset triggered by an announcement or other means of conveying information (alarm) issued to warn the population and leaders of an expected event with major implications from a safety standpoint.

·  ALNAP = Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action

·  AMIS African Union Mission in Sudan

·  AMCU Aid Management and Coordination Unit, Ministry of International Cooperation

·  AMR Annual Ministerial Reviews

·  APN Port au Prince Sea Port Authority

·  APROSIFA Association for the Promotion of Integral Family Healthcare

·  ARC American Refugee Committee http://www.arcrelief.org/site/PageServer?pagename=haiti_media

·  ARC American Red Cross

·  ARI Allied Recovery International

·  ARI Acute respiratory Infections

·  ARIS Acute respiratory Infection

·  ARV Anti Retroviral

Assessment An evaluation of needs, to help set priorities.

·  ACAPS Assessment Capacities Project

·  ACF Action Contre la Faim

·  ALNAP Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in humanitarian action

·  AWG Assessments Working Group http://groups.google.com/group/assessmentshaiti

·  AU African Union

·  AVSI Associazione Volontari per il Servizio Internationale

·  BBC British Broadcasting Corporation

·  BCDE = Electoral Office of Legal Departemental West

·  BCLC = U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Business Civic Leadership Center

·  BIM = Building Information Modeling

Biodiversity – Biodiversity, or biological diversity, is the variability among living organisms from all sources including inter alia terrestrial, marine and aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part.

·  BPM Brigade de la Protection des Mineurs – Child Protection Brigade within Haiti Police

·  BPRM (U.S.) Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration

·  BRR Aceh and Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency

·  BUGEP Bureau de Gestion du Préscolaire (MoE’s Preschool Education Unit)

Cadastral = Land surveying in the Digital Age.

·  CAM Community Asset Management

·  CAMEP...... Centrale Autonome Métropolitaine d’Eau Potable

·  CAP = Consolidated Appeal Process: fund raising for implementation of HAP = Humanitarian Action Plan

Capacity Constraint – There is a maximum volume that can move through safely and correctly, such as cargo on a public road, through an airport or sea port. We can increase capacity by improving the facility, or adding a new facility, such as parachuting supplies in, using military landing craft on coast where there is no port, land Cessna on public highway.

Capacity to handle disasters / Different ways in which women and men marshal their capacities and organize themselves to use available resources to cope with the different adverse effects of a disaster. This entails resource management, both in times of normalcy and during crises or adverse situations. In general, building capacity to cope with disasters makes people more resilient in the face of both natural and man-made hazards. This has a gender dimension, given that men and women may have similar or different capacities depending on whether they can gain access to and use of available resources.
Capacity building / Efforts targeting the development of human skills or the infrastructure of a society in a given community or organization, necessary to reduce the level of risk.

·  CARE Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere

·  CARICOM Caribbean Community

Carrying Capacity – The maximum number of a given organism, or population, that a particular environment can sustain.

Catastrophe / Similar to disaster, but indicative instead of a situation of maximum or extreme loss.

·  CBM Christian Blind Mission

·  CCAT Cross Cluster Assessment of Trends

·  CCCM Camp Coordination Camp Management

·  CCPR = International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm

·  CCTRS = Corail Cesselesse Temporary Resettlement Site

·  CDA Capital Development Authority

·  CDAC Communications with Disaster Affected Communities

·  CDGRD ...... Provincial Committee for Risk and Disaster Management

·  CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-only memory

·  CEB Chief Executives Board of the UN

·  CEP Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council

·  CEPAL Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe

·  CERF...... Central Emergency Relief Fund

·  CES Centre d’Education Spéciale (National NGO for Special Education)

·  CFS Child Friendly Spaces or Child Friendly Schools (You would think a school for children, by definition, should be child-friendly, however this not the case in Haiti, due to a lack of standards enforcement, and quake damage. 90% Haiti schools are private.)

·  CFSAM Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission

·  CFU = Colony Forming Unity (faecal coliforms)

·  CFW Cash for Work

·  CFSAM crop and food security assessment mission

·  CHAP = Common Humanitarian Action Plan

·  CHIC Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Haiti

Cholera – See Al Mac research document on Haiti’s Cholera outbreak which started 2010 October in the Arbonite River Valley. Of interest to this Glossary might be the different ways the disease might suddenly appear in a nation, after being apparently absent for 40 years, then once it has arrived, there are many ways for it to spread. You don’t catch it by breathing air of an infected person, or touching them while they are alive, or touching same objects they touched, you catch it by the infection going into your mouth. However, the way you touch them, can then mean the bacteria is on your hands, which you can handle stuff which will later go in your mouth.

Human Carrier: Typically only 25% of the people, who carry the bacteria in their gut, even show the symptoms, so someone in a region of the world, which has the epidemic, might travel to a region of the world which does not yet have it. If there is poor sanitation there, the human waste products (toilet # 2) can get into the food chain to other humans.

Contaminated Water: Food prepared or washed using water which has the cholera bacteria, will deliver the bacteria to whoever eats that food. That water could have been contaminated by a carrier or marine life. If you bathe in contaminated water, and some of it gets into your mouth, you just caught cholera.

Marine Life: Cholera bacteria is carried in a variety of plankton and sea food. It can remain dormant for decades, then “bloom” in the appropriate climate conditions, like those recently for Haiti.

Animal Carrier: Farm Animals do not get this disease, but they carry the bacteria in their gut, so if food is not properly cooked, all sorts of problems can be communicated.

Insects may carry vibrio cholerae and deposit it on food, water or other surfaces that humans come in contact with and subsequently contract cholera, when their living conditions involve poor sanitation.

Dead Bodies which died of cholera: Someone who has died of cholera is covered with the vibrio, and anyone touching the body without adequate knowledge about self protection and good hygiene is at risk of infection!!!!!

During the last moments of life people in the advanced stages of this illness are losing bodily fluids from intestinal reflux and diarrhea. These bodily fluids contain the vibrio and these fluids, as well as any other moist surface upon which they are found including the body, are infectious until that body is properly disinfected and all external orfices to the gastrointestinal system 'plugged' with chlorine saturated rags/sponges. Any one touching or otherwise handling that body is subject to contamination and infection.