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Scaling-up COVID-19 outbreak readiness and response operations in humanitarian situations including camps and camp-like settings
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC, IFRC, IOM, WHO (2020) C_WHO

Interim Guidcance March 2020 People affected by humanitarian crises, particularly those displaced and/or living in camps and camp-like settings, are often faced with specific challenges and vulnerabilities that must be taken into consideration when planning for readiness and response operations for... more

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RIASCO action plan for Southern Africa - Revised regional response plan for the El Niño-induced drought in Southern Africa December 2016 - April 2017

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Regional Interagency Standing Committee, Southern Africa (2016) C1

El Niño conditions persisting during the 2015/16 planting season have caused the worst drought in 35 years in Southern Africa, resulting in a second consecutive failed harvest. This has created severe food shortages and compounded existing vulnerabilities. Since July 2016, Namibia and Botswana have... more

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Manuel d’utilisation à destination des équipes Santé Mentale et Soutien Psychosocial (SMSPS) dans la réponse au COVID-19

International Organization for Migration IOM (2020) C1

Ce guide rassemble des documents existants liés à la santé mentale et au soutien psychosocial (MHPSS) relatifs à la crise du COVID-19, ainsi que d'autres ressources applicables au contexte. Il est divisé en différentes sections en fonction des « espaces de nouvelle vulnérabilité » inhéren... more

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Indonesia: Disaster Management Reference Handbook

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (2018) C1

The Indonesian government has reformed its laws, policies, and institutions to better manage disaster risk since the significant 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The Government of Indonesia now has contingency plans for every disaster-prone city which identifies its vulnerabilities, outlines the relief re... more

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Increasing uptake of HIV testing and counselling among men who have sex with men and transgender persons in Myanmar

USAID (2017) C1

Policy Brief, Updated in March 2017
Key messages
• The criminalisation of male-to-male sex heightens HIV and other sexually transmissible infection (STI) risks and vulnerabilities, and hinders access to HIV and STI services including HCT.
• Men who have sex with men (MSM) and tran... more

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Guatemala's Health Emergency Appeal 2023

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Recovery from COVID-19 has been challenging in Guatemala. As a result of the prolonged socio-economic impact of the pandemic, the average poverty rate nationwide has increased by almost 5%. This rise in the poverty level further exacerbates preexisting vulnerabilities and erodes the limited safety n... more

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Africa’s Health Financing in a New Era

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) (2025) CC

Africa’s health sector is facing an unprecedented financing crisis, driven by a sharp decline of 70% in Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 2021 to 2025 and deep-rooted structural vulnerabilities. This collapse is placing immense pressure on Africa’s already fragile health systems as ODA ...is seen as the backbone of critical health programs: pandemic preparedness, maternal and child health services, disease control programs are all at risk, threatening Sustainable Development Goal 3 and Universal Health Coverage. Compounding this is Africa’s spiraling debt, with countries expected to service USD 81 billion by 2025—surpassing anticipated external financing inflows—further eroding fiscal space for health investments. Level of domestic resources is low. TThe Abuja Declaration of 2001, a pivotal commitment made by African Union (AU) member states, aimed to reverse this trend by pledging to allocate at least 15% of national budgets to the health sector. However, more than two decades later, only three countries—Rwanda, Botswana, and Cabo Verde—have consistently met or exceeded this target (WHO, 2023). In contrast, over 30 AU member states remain well below the 10% benchmark, with some allocating as little as 5–7% of their national budgets to health. In addition, only 16 (29%) of African countries currently have updated versions of National Health Development Plan (NHDP) supported by a National Health Financing Plan (NHFP). These two documents play a critical role in driving internal resource mobilisation. At the same time, public health emergencies are surging, rising 41%—from 152 in 2022 to 213 in 2024—exposing severe under-resourcing of health infrastructure and workforce. Recurring outbreaks (Mpox, Ebola, cholera, measles, Marburg…) alongside effects of climate change and humanitarian crises in Eastern DRC, the Sahel, and Sudan, are overwhelming systems stretched by chronic underfunding. The situation is worsened by Africa’s heavy dependency with over 90% of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics being externally sourced—leaving countries vulnerable to global supply chain shocks. Health worker shortages persist, with only 2.3 professionals per 1,000 people (below the WHO’s recommended 4.45), and fewer than 30% of systems are digitized, undermining disease surveillance and early warning. Without decisive action, Africa CDC projects the continent could reverse two decades of health progress, face 2 to 4 million additional preventable deaths annually, and a heightened risk of a pandemic emerging from within. Furthermore, 39 million more Africans could be pushed into poverty by 2030 due to intertwined health and economic shocks. This is not just a sectoral crisis—it is an existential threat to Africa’s political, social, and economic resilience, and global stability. In response, African leaders, under Africa CDC’s stewardship, are advancing a comprehensive three-pillar strategy centered on domestic resource mobilization, innovative financing, and blended finance. more

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Mali Plan de Réponse Humanitaire Janvier à décembre 2022

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2022) CC

L’ampleur de la crise en 2021 s’est accentuée avec l’expansion de la violence et de l’insécurité dans tout le nord et le centre, et vers le sud du pays. Dans ce contexte de sous-investissements, de pauvreté chronique, de crise sociopolitique, les conflits, l’insécurité multiforme et ... more

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Analyse Rapide Genre: Tremblement de terre du 14 aout en Haïti

Care, ONUu Femmes et al. Care and ONU Femmes (2021) CC

C’est dans ce contexte particulièrement complexe qu’ONU Femmes et CARE, sous le leadership du Ministère à la Condition féminine et aux Droits des femmes (MCFDF) et en coordination avec la Direction Générale de la Protection Civile (DGPC), ont lancé l’Analyse Rapide Genre qui se veut une... more

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The Adolescent Brain: A second window of opportunity

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2017)

The articles in this compendium elaborate on some of the ideas shared at the symposium. Together, they provide a broad view of the dynamic interactions among physical, sexual and brain development that take place during adolescence. They highlight some of the risks to optimal development – includi... more

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Témoignages de mères face au choléra

ReliefWeb (2025) C2

L'article "Témoignages de mères face au choléra" sur ReliefWeb présente les récits de mères haïtiennes dont les enfants ont été touchés par le choléra. Il met en lumière les défis auxquels ces familles sont confrontées, en particulier dans les régions où l'accès aux soins de santé ... more

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Forcibly Displaced : Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts

World Bank (2017) CC

The report depicts the reality of forced displacement as a developing world crisis with implications for sustainable growth: 95 percent of the displaced live in developing countries and over half are in displacement for more than four years. To help the displaced, the report suggests ways to rebuild... more

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Lao PDR: Disaster Management Reference Handbook

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (2017) C1

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), also referred to as Laos, or Lao, is exposed to natural disasters such as flooding, typhoons, cyclones, drought, and earthquakes. The country is vulnerable to recurrent, sudden-onset and slow onset natural disasters with flooding, storms and typhoons hav... more

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Guidance on Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in the Health Sector, Myanmar - Rural Setting

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement (MSWRR), Ministry of Health (2011) C1

The guidance aspires
• To emphasize the 'need' to mainstream disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the health sector initiatives.
• To identify key approaches for mainstreaming DRR in the health sector in Myanmar, particularly in rural areas, based on the good practices, innovative approach... more

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Un monde durable en héritage ? Atlas de la santé infantile et de l’environnement

World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) C_WHO

En 2015, 26 % des décès de 5,9 millions d'enfants de moins de cinq ans auraient pu être évités si les facteurs de risque environnementaux avaient été pris en compte – cette possibilité manquée de sauver des vies est révoltante. La période prénatale et de la petite enfance constitue u... more

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COVID-19 and Human Development: Exploring global preparedness and vulnerability

reliefweb (2020) C2

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today released two new data dashboards that highlight the huge disparities in countries’ abilities to cope with and recover from the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic is more than a global health emergency. It is a systemic human development crisis, a... more

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25 Years of Children and Armed Conflict: Taking Action to Protect Children in War. Fact Sheet

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2022) C_UNICEF

The report also provides country-specific examples showing how direct engagement translated into the adoption of concrete measures, including national legislation and policies. Finally, the report presents key recommendations aimed at intensifying the actions of the international and the humanitaria... more

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Social Protection - Budget Brief

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2023) C_UNICEF

Based on an increasing body of evidence pointing at the positive impact that social assistance has had in Malawi, the region and beyond, government is encouraged to continue investing in and supporting the expansion and comprehensiveness of social protection programmes in both rural and urban areas,... more

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Advancing gender equality and climate action: A practical guide to setting targets and monitoring progress

Climate & Development Knowledge Network (2022) C1

Women have less access to the development services and support – such as adequate healthcare, education and modern technology – that make people more resilient to climate change and other shocks and stressors.2 Women’s unequal access to resources, their disproportionate responsibility for ca... more

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Plan Directeur National de Lutte Integrée Contre les Maladies Tropicales Négligées

Ministere de la Santé, Direction Nationale de la Santé Publique , Programme National de Lutte contre les Maladies Transmissibles, Bénin (2017) C2

L’OMS a ciblé 17 maladies comme des Maladies Tropicales Négligées. Ces maladies sont très différentes les unes des autres, mais elles ont comme point commun de toucher principalement les populations les plus pauvres. Elles maintiennent dans la pauvreté les populations ayant initialement un n... more

Scaling-up COVID-19 outbreak readiness and response operations in humanitarian situations including camps and camp-like settings recommended

Scaling-up COVID-19 outbreak readiness and response operations in humanitarian situations including camps and camp-like settings
recommended