NAFTA - North American Free Trade Area

NAP - National AIDS programme

NDP - National Development Plans

NGO - non-governmental organisations

NIT - National Intervention Teams

NORAD - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

NS - National Society

NSCD - National Society Cooperation and Development

OAS - Organisation of American States

OD - Organisational Development (A department in the Secretariat)

OFDA - Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID)

ONS - Operating National Society (generally signifies a NS that is receiving programme or organization support from other Federation components)

OSB - Overseas Branch

OSG - Office of the Secretary General (at IFRC secretariat in Geneva )

OXFAM - Oxford Committee for Famine relief

PADRU - Pan American Disaster Response Unit

PAHO - Pan American Health Organisation

PANCAP - Pan Caribbean AIDS Partnership

PERCO - Platform for European Red Cross Co-operation on Refugees, Asylum-seekers and Migrants

PIRAC - Plate-forme d'Intervention Régionale Amériques Caraïbes
(Regional Intervention Platform for the Americas and the Caribbean)

PLWHA - people living with HIV/AIDS

PMTCT - prevention of mother-to-child transmission (of HIV)

PNS- Participating National Society (that is, a NS taking part in development of or a programme in another NS)

PPP - Project Planning Process

PPAC - Policy and Planning Advisory Commission

RC/RCM - The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

RCS - Red Cross Society or Red Crescent Society

RCAS - Regional Co-operation Agreement Strategy

RD - Regional Delegation or Regional Development

RDRT - Regional Disaster Reponse Team

RFU - Regional Finance Unit

RITS - Regional Intervention Teams

RLU - Regional Logistics Unit

SADMTP - Southern Africa Disaster Management Training Programme (of the IFRC)

SAP - Southern Africa Partnership (since 1996) (of the IFRC) or Stratégie d'Assistance par Pays. Can also refer to a software they use for HR (depending on a context)

SAR - Stratégie d'Assistance par Région

SecGen/SG - Secretary General (of the IFRC)

SIDA - Swedish International Development Authority

SIDS - Small Island Developing States

SoL - Staff on Loan

SoPs - Standard Operating Procedures

SRO - Sub Regional Office (Trinidad)

STI - sexually transmitted infection

STD - sexually transmitted disease

SWP - Strategic Work Plan (of the IFRC)

TOR - Terms of Reference

ToT - Training of Trainers

TSS - Training Support Services (at the IFRC Secretariat)

UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation

UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme

UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund

UNV - United National Volunteer programme

USAID - United States Agency for International Development

WatSan - Water and Sanitation project

WDR - World Disaster Report

Webi - WebIntelligence, Federation's reporting site

WFP - World Food Programme

WHO - World Health Organisation

WPNS - Well Prepared National Societies