David Hansen

World Disaster Alliance

The World Disaster Alliance (also known as the WDA or the Disaster Alliance) is a private organization focused on leveraging the value and impact of preciously limited world financial, material and human resources used in disaster and humanitarian relief. We are resolved to taking innovative, intelligent, purposeful actions to realize our mission and our vision. We focus upon the acts of natural and human-impacted (e.g. acts of terrorism, war, environmental accidents) disaster and humanitarian need. The World Disaster Alliance was established to provide a better solution to the missing pieces of the communication, information, and coordination puzzles that disaster relief agencies face. The Alliance employs the power of united support among information and communication organizations, disaster and humanitarian groups, world volunteer resources and the combined efforts of private and public donors to enhance the way the world responds to disasters and humanitarian needs.