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Using the Sphere Standards in Urban Settings

Ben Mountfield The Sphere Project (2016)

Fills a gap in current guidance on how to implement humanitarian standards in urban situations. In Arabic, English, French and Spanish available

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Handbook for Coordinating Gender-based Violence Interventions in Emergencies 2019
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Protection Cluster (2019) C2

This handbook is a quick-reference tool that provides practical, field-level guidance to establish and maintain a GBV sub-cluster in a humanitarian emergency. It provides the foundations for coordination. More in-depth information can be pursued through resources referenced in this handbook. The GBV... more

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Ebola Outbreak: Updated Overview of Needs and Requirements for January-June 2015

World Health Organization, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (2015)

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Engaging Private Security Providers - A Guideline for Non-Governmental Organisations

Max Glaser, European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2011) C2

Humanitarian NGOs have made increased use of Private Security Providers (PSPs) over the last decade. There is a gap between the ways that NGOs actually use PSPs and the regulation of this engagement. These guidelines aim to assist humanitarian NGOs in reaching an informed decision about when, how an... more

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Inter-Agency Reproductiv e Health Kits for Crisis Situations - Manual

UNFPA (2011)

A consolidated set of reproductive health kits for use by humanitarian agencies. These kits are intended to speed up the provision of appropriate reproductive health services in emergency and refugee situations.

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Venezuelan Survival Migration as a Development Opportunity

Betts, A. Oxford Research Group (2019) C1

Research in Brief. The international community’s predominant response to the Venezuelan migration crisis remains focused on humanitarian relief. This is important, for two populations: a) the over 50,000 ‘pendular’ migrants who go back and forth across the border every day in order to access ... more

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MOZAMBIQUE Food Security Outlook Update

USAID from the American People USAID (2019) CC

Emergency assistance needs are anticipated to be atypically high through 2019/20 lean season. The 2018/19 rainy season was marked by a delayed start of season, below average rainfall, early cessation of rains, and heavy late season rainfall and flooding associated with Tropical Cyclones Desmond, I... more

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UNFPA Regional Syria Crisis Response: Overview of Funding Needs 2022

UNFPA (2022) CC

Unprecedented humanitarian needs, the COVID-19 pandemic, a worsening economic crisis, and funding shortfalls converge to create life-threatening challenges for people in need throughout the region. In March 2022, the Syria crisis entered its 12th year, marking another grim milestone for Syrians t... more

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Professional Standards for Protection Work
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International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC (2018) C1

Carried out by humanitarian and human rights actors in armed conflict and other situations of violence This guideline (third edition) constitutes a set of minimum but essential standards aimed at ensuring that protection work is safe and effective. The standards reflect shared thinking and common ... more

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Yemen Emergency Livelihoods Response Plan: Support to agriculture-based livelihoods in Yemen, 2018

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2018) C1

This plan guides FAO’s response to prevent the levels of food insecurity and malnutrition from worsening. It sets out key emergency agricultural livelihood interventions to be implemented within the framework of the 2018 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP)

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East Africa: Key Message Update, September 2016

Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (2016) C1

This brief summarizes FEWS NET’s most forward-looking analysis of projected emergency food assistance needs in FEWS NET coverage countries. The projected size of each country’s acutely food insecure population is compared to last year and the recent five-year average. Countries where external em... more

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Bridging the emergency gap

Monica de Castellarnau and Velina Stoianova Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) (2018) C2

Reflections and a call for action after a two-year exploration of emergency response in acute conflicts
There is general consensus that the humanitarian sector is failing to mount timely and adequate responses in the acute phase of conflict-related emergencies, according to the two-year Emergen... more

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Still at risk: Restrictions endanger Rohingya women and girls in Bangladesh

Vigaud-Walsh, Francisca Refugees International (RI) (2018) C1

In April 2018, Refugees International (RI) conducted a mission to Bangladesh, to research the GBV (gender-based violence) response for Rohingya women and girls. RI found that the entire humanitarian system is struggling under tremendous constraints in Bangladesh, and protection and health actors do ... more

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Safe Distributions: Guidelines for Reducing Protection Risks in in-kind Distributions

UNHCR (2020) CC

Distributing immediate, lifesaving assistance is one of the most urgent actions in an emergency response and can significantly improve the safety and wellbeing of individuals. Non-Food Items (NFI), Food Security, WASH and Shelter in-kind assistance actors can help reduce and mitigate pr... more

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Sahel Crisis 2020: Responding to the urgent needs of refugees, internally displaced, returnees and others of concern (June 2020)

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) CC

he central Sahel region—Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger—is facing a severe humanitarian and protection crisis. Massive displacement, most of it driven by intense and largely indiscriminate violence perpetrated by a range of armed actors against civilian populations, is taking place across the regi... more

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Conflict sensitivity in responses to COVID-19: Initial guidance and reflections, May 2020

Swiss Peace Foundation (2020) C1

This paper aims to provide aid agencies with initial analysis and guidance to inform the design, implementation and adaptation of conflict-sensitive humanitarian and development responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents a series of overarching considerations to take into account when determini... more

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Syria Regional Crisis Emergency Appeal 2021

UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (2021) C1

2 March 2021 Protracted displacement, socio-economic crises aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, dire humanitarian needs and protection threats continue to affect the Palestine refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. In Syria, the protracted conflict has left 91 per cent of the 438,000 Palestine re... more

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Regional Migrant Response Plan for the Horn of Africa and Yemen, 2022

International Organization for Migration IOM (2022) CC

The regional Migrant Response Plan (MRP) for the Horn of Africa and Yemen includes urgent life-saving humanitarian and protection interventions to improve safe and dignified access to basic services for migrants and host communities while ensuring medium- to long-term actions aimed at addressing the... more

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Response to the Ukraine Crisis: interim report, February to June 2022

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2022) C_WHO

Saving lives is the priority of WHO’s response in Ukraine. WHO works to ensure time-critical, lifesaving multisectoral assistance, non-discriminatory access to emergency and essential health services and priority prevention programmes, and laying the foundation for longer-term health systems recov... more

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Haiti's Health Emergency Appeal 2023
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World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

For the past years, Haiti has been engulfed in a socioeconomic, political, and humanitarian crisis that has reached critical levels since mid-September 2022 with the intensification of gang violence and social unrest. The widespread insecurity and political instability have drastically affected the... more

Handbook for Coordinating Gender-based Violence Interventions in Emergencies 2019 recommended

Professional Standards for Protection Work recommended

Haiti's Health Emergency Appeal 2023 recommended

Handbook for Coordinating Gender-based Violence Interventions in Emergencies 2019
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Professional Standards for Protection Work
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Haiti's Health Emergency Appeal 2023
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