ReliefWeb

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ReliefWeb is a humanitarian information portal run by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). It started in October 1996 to help the aid community share critical information during crises. Today, ReliefWeb serves as an independent source of up-to-date information to support fast, effective relief and to highlight forgotten emergencies.

What ReliefWeb offers:
- A central hub for humanitarian information: reports, press releases, evaluations, guidelines, assessments, maps and infographics from more than 5,000 sources, all searchable and archived back to 1981.
- A globally updated platform with a subscription service that helps people with limited bandwidth receive updates reliably.
- Content from UN agencies, governments, NGOs, academia and think tanks.

Key facts:
- Headquarters in New York, with offices in Bangkok and Nairobi; past offices were in Geneva and Kobe.
- The site has grown a lot: in 2017, about 6.8 million visitors, more than 57,000 reports/maps published, 39,500 job postings and 2,600 training opportunities.
- Major redesigns in 2002–2005 and 2011, a switch to an open-source platform in 2011, and a broader crisis information role in 2012. It also launched “Labs” in 2012 to test new tools. An information app for humanitarian workers was released in 2016 and retired in 2018.

ReliefWeb remains a key UN resource for humanitarian information, helping agencies coordinate and deliver relief more quickly and effectively.