ACAPS - ACCROSS

ACAPS: name of an organization whose acronym is derived from name of initial project, "The Assessment Capacities Project”

ACAPS[1] was established in 2009 (initially as a project) and is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides international, independent humanitarian analysis aiming to help humanitarian workers, influencers, fundraisers, and donors make better decisions.[2]

ACAPS uses the INFORM Global Crisis Severity Index (GCSI) to assess the severity of different components of a crisis and to enable comparisons of scale and severity across the world.[3]

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia - ACAPS, visited 2019-10-02

2. ACAPS homepage, visited 2019-10-02

3. ACAPS - Methodology - Use of the INFORM Global Crisis Severity Index (GCSI) to assess severity, to support evidence-based decision making, visited 2019-10-02