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Supporting decisions in crisis response: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response and MicroMappers 1. AIDR and MicroMappers teams: Carlos (Chato) Castillo, Muhammad Imran, Patrick Meier, Ji Kim Lucas, Jaideep Srivastava, Heather Leson, Ferda Ofli, Noora Mohamed Al Emadi, Meghna Singh, Koushik Sinha, Prasenjit Mitra, Christine Jackson, Justine Mackinnon, Sarah Vieweg and Peter Mosur. We also acknowledge software partners Metacube (Latika Bhurani, Kushal Goyal, Aman Agrawal) and the mobile development team at GeoThings 2. https://jikimlucas.cartodb.com/viz/09f1dd76-f304-11e4-9193- 0e8dde98a187/public_map 3. Imran, M., Castillo, C., Lucas, J., Meier, P., and Vieweg, S. (2014, April). ‘AIDR: Artificial intelligence for disaster response’. In Proceedings of the companion publication of the 23rd international conference on Worldwide web companion (pp. 159-162). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee 4. Imran, M., Elbassuoni, S. M., Castillo, C., Diaz, F., and Meier, P. (2013a). ‘Extracting information nuggets from disaster-related messages in social media’. Proc. of ISCRAM, Baden-Baden, Germany 5. The crowdsourced stream processing paradigm is described in Imran, M., Lykourentzou, I., Naudet, Y., and Castillo, C. (2013b). ‘Engineering crowdsourced stream processing systems’. arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5463 6. http://gdeltproject.org 7. https://www.epfl.ch; http://droneadventures.org 8. Ofli, F., Meier P., Imran M., Castillo C., Tuia D., Rey N., Briant J., Millet P., Reinhard F., Parkan M. (2016). ‘Combining human computing and machine learning to make sense of big (aerial) data for disaster response’. Big Data 4:X, xxx-xxx, DOI: 10.1089/ big.2014.0064 Forecast-based financing: climate science and timely funding of early actions in an anticipatory humanitarian system 1. About the authors Alexandra Rüth, Coordination Climate Change Adaptation, German Red Cross Erin Coughlan, Senior Climate Specialist, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Stefanie Lux, Desk Officer Latin America, German Red Cross Angela Siegmund, Division for Humanitarian Assistance and Humanitarian Demining, German Federal Foreign Office Ole Grogro, Division for Humanitarian Assistance and Humanitarian Demining, German Federal Foreign Office Risk transfer and insurance: investing in disaster risk reduction for urban resilience 1. Jaitely, 2015 2. IRDA, 2013-2014 3. 2011 Census 4. TERI, 2014 5. TERI, 2014: 2 6. AIDMI, 2013 7. Mechler et al., 2006 8. O’Donnell, 2009: 12 9. AIDMI 2015 Building resilience to economic shocks in Uganda’s dairy sector: the role of farmers’ organizations About the author Umar I. Kamarah (PhD, Manchester University) is currently Senior Rural Development Economist in Agriculture & Rural Development Department of the IDB Group. Formerly UN Field Coordinator in East Timor and World Bank Staff in Washington DC, Dr Kamarah is the author of the book Sustainable Rural Development, published by the University Press of America and other journal articles focused on issues of food security, institution-building and rural development. E-mail: UKamarah@isdb.org References 1. R. James Bingen and Brent M. Simpson (2016), Farmer organizations and modernizing extension and advisory services: A framework and reflection on cases from sub-Saharan Africa, Michigan University Further reading – Dairy Development Authority (DDA) Annual Report 2012/2013 – D evelopment Strategy and Investment Plan (DSIP) 2010/11-2015/16, MAAIF march 2010. – F AO 2010: Status of and Prospects for Smallholder Milk Production – A Global Perspective, by T. Hemme and J. Otte. Rome – K amarah, Umar (2001) – Sustainable Rural Development – Semantics Or Substance? The study of Rural Project in Sierra Leone, University Press of America – N dambi, Oghaiki Asaah (2008). ‘Milk production systems in central Uganda: a farm economic analysis’. Tropical Animal Health Production. Vol. 40: 269-279 – R ondot, P and M.H. Collion (2001) Agricultural Producer Organizations: Their contribution to rural capacity building and poverty reduction, World Bank, Washington DC Responding to the livelihoods needs of quarantined households during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone 1. Trócaire’s local partners that implemented the integrated Ebola response were: Kambia District Development and Rehabilitation Organization (KADDRO), Action for Advocacy and Development (AAD-SL), Movement Opposed to Violence and Exclusion of Women in Sierra Leone (MOVE Salone), Cotton Tree Foundation (CTF), Develop Salone (DESAL), Menna Women’s Development Associates (MEWODA), Access to Justice Law Centre (AJLC), Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (CDHR), Associates for the Wellbeing of rural communities and Development (ABC-D), Network Movement for Justice and Democracy (NMJD), Campaign for Good Governance (CGG), Women’s Centre for Good Governance and Human Rights (WOCEGAR) and St. Joseph’s School for the Hearing Impaired Building partnerships to improve resilience and safety of fisher families in the Bay of Bengal 1. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute-India 2. Annual Report of the BOBP-IGO, 2012-13. Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation, Chennai, India. pp.72. 3. Department of Fisheries-Bangladesh 4. Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture-Maldives 5. Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development-Sri Lanka 6. For example, see the Sea Around Us report on the Bay of Bengal large marine ecosystem [ 164 ] T ogether W e S tand