The Disaster Policy Wiki currently holds over 1000 post-disaster policy recommendations designed to improve disaster management systems, save more lives and minimize suffering. Team of law and policy students are adding policy reports and recommendations and tracking their implementation status. More
The Relief Oversight Initiative, launched after the 2010 Haiti earthquake is improving the transparency of the humanitarian/aid community by increasing public demand for information, educating donors, and exposing what groups are doing and not doing on the ground after disasters. More
The Disaster Accountability Real-Time Hotline serves as a listening device after disasters and provides disaster survivors, workers, and volunteers with an outside line to call to report gaps in services. After Hurricane Ike, the Hotline received over 100 calls reporting gaps in services across Texas. More
Citizen Engagement: In 1999, teams of volunteers visited 22 parishes across Southern Louisiana to request all-hazard emergency plans. We found only half the plans available to the public, fewer were updated and comprehensive. DAP's report received significant media coverage and the resulting attention led to community-level conversations and real plan improvements. More