Reducing the humanitarian impact of the use of explosive weapons in populated areas is a key priority for the United 
Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), civil society and an increasing number of Member States. 
The United Nations Secretary-General has expressly called on... parties to conflict to avoid the use in populated areas of 
explosive weapons with wide-area effects. 
While the use of explosive weapons in populated areas may in some circumstances be lawful under international 
humanitarian law (IHL), empirical evidence reveals a foreseeable and often widespread pattern of harm to civilians, 
particularly from explosive weapons with wide-area effects. 
Many types of explosive weapons exist and are currently in use. These include air-delivered bombs, artillery projectiles, 
missiles and rockets, mortar bombs, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Some are launched from the air and 
others are surface launched. Whilst different technical features dictate their accuracy of delivery and explosive effect, 
these weapons generally create a zone of blast and fragmentation with the potential to kill, injure or damage anyone 
or anything within that zone. This makes their use in populated areas – such as towns, cities, markets and camps for 
refugees and displaced persons or other concentrations of civilians – particularly problematic. The problems increase 
further if the effects of the weapon extend across a wide-area either because of the scale of blast that they produce; their 
inaccuracy; the use of multiple munitions across an area; or a combination thereof.
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                                                                The following Emergency Response Plan for the COVID-19 pandemic seeks to set out activities that will be undertaken by humanitarian actors in Ukraine over the course of 2020 to respond to the public health impact of the epidemic – as well as the indirect, socio-economic impact on people’s well-b...eing, which will span across many areas. Given the extensive public exposure of the COVID-19 threat, the response will cover the whole of Ukraine, while providing a distinct focus on Donetska and Luhanska oblasts that have been ravaged by an armed conflict for the last six consecutive years. The planned COVID-19 response in the two conflict-affected oblasts will be treated as an annex to the current Humanitarian Response Plan for Ukraine
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                                                                This action plan is intended for senior-level decision-makers in ministries of health, malaria
programme managers, entomologists, and epidemiologists working on malaria and other vectorborne diseases programmes. It is also intended for decision-makers and technical and advocacy
staff at other orga...nizations and stakeholders involved in public health, malaria control and
elimination, and urban and rural development.
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                                                                The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks: (i) Understanding disaster risk; (ii) Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk; (iii) Investing in disaster ...reduction for resilience and; (iv) Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, and to "Build Back Better" in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.
It aims to achieve the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries over the next 15 years.
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                                                                The case studies in this document are set in different scales and geographies, tackling a wide realm of issues connected to urban housing recovery — locally in Nepal and globally. The case studies are categorized into three:
    case studies from partner organizations
    case studies from house...holds’ perspective
    global case studies
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                                                                Research results of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention and response before, during and after disasters in Indonesia, Lao PDR and the Philippines
This report contributes new evidence on why and how sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) risks increase during humanitarian disasters.... It details how humanitarian actors can better prevent and respond to such escalation of SGBV, and better meet the needs of affected women, girls, men and boys. This research is based on community views of disaster-affected women, adolescent girls, men and adolescent boys in three South-East Asian countries: Indonesia, Lao PDR and the Philippines.
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                                                                While the full effects of COVID-19 remain unknown, the pandemic continues to profoundly impact regional migration and mobility dynamics, with deep health, social and economic consequences for the most vulnerable, including migrants, displaced populations and their host communities, and returnees.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This guidance document is meant to support practitioners working in disaster prone contexts to develop and implement more effective integrated resilience programming. It promotes programming that cuts across different fields of work like rights awareness, food security, emergency preparedness, livel...ihoods, education, health etc. whilst at the same time encouraging us to work simultaneously at the individual, household, community and national level. It includes specific recommendations for developing resilience programming for communities prone to floods, cyclone, drought and earthquakes. It also includes recommendations to develop safe school programming to help reduce the impact of disasters on school infrastructure, ensure education continuity and build the resilience of students, teachers and their families.
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                                                                A view of global supply chains, pressure points, and implications for antimicrobial resistance response
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                9 April 2020
WHO has published the guidance “Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) when COVID-19 disease is suspected” This document is intended for clinicians taking care of hospitalized adult and paediatric patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) whe...n COVID-19 infection is suspected. Optimized supportive care should be provided to ensure the best possible chance for survival of COVID-19 patients as described in the WHO guidance:
1. Management of severe COVID-19 requires oxygen therapy and monitoring. Supplemental oxygen therapy should be given immediately to patients with SARI and respiratory distress, hypoxaemia or shock.
2. Management of critical COVID-19 (acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)) requires advanced oxygen/ventilatory support.
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                                                                This brief gives an overview of disability rights in the Sub-Saharan region, with focus on Sida partner countries; DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Key Features:
• Module Users: Disaster Management Trainers
• Training Targets: State Government and District
officials / Disaster Management Authorities / Disaster
Management Planners and Responders
• Training Duration: 5 working days (one week)
• Trainers Input: Multi-disciplinary
... Training methods: Lecture, Discussion, Film Show,
Field Visits, Group Exercise.
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