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Making local health services accountable.

GIZ BMZ (2015) C1

Social auditing in Nepal’s health sector

Medical Isolation Facilities in Outbreak Responses
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Oxfam (2018) C1

This technical briefing paper details the construction and setup of medical isolation facilities in support of infectious disease outbreak responses.

Searching for Lasting Peace

Patrick Vinck ,Phuong Pham UNPD (2014) C1

Population-Based Survey on Perceptions and Attitudes about Peace, Security and Justice in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Je vois que cela est possible - Renforcer les capacités pour l’inclusion du handicap dans les programmes relatifs à la violence basée sur le genre dans les environnements humanitaires
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Women's Refugee Commission, et al. (2015) C1

The tools are designed to complement existing guidelines, protocols and tools for GBV prevention and response, and should not be used in isolation from these. GBV practitioners are encouraged to adapt the tools to their individual programs and contexts, and to integrate pieces into standard GBV tool ... more

WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2008-2013 Sierra Leone

World Health Organization (2008) C_WHO

NGOs & UN Agencies Assisting Persons with Disabilities

Maria Isabel Egüez United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (2008) C2

A non-exhaustive reference list of organizations working with and for persons with disabilities world-wide.

Medicinal plants in the South Pacific

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for the Western Pacific (1998) C_WHO

Information on 102 commonly used medicinal plants in the South Pacific WHO regional publications. Western Pacific series ; Plants from this part of the world represent an especially diverse flora and include several species currently undergoing scientific investigation. Common traditional uses inclu ... more

Égalité et non-discrimination au regard de l’article 5 de la Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées

UN Human Rights Council (2016) C2

Dans la présente étude, le Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme expose les normes relatives à l’égalité et à la non discrimination à l’égard des personnes handicapées à la lumière de l’article 5 de la Convention relative aux droits des personnes handicapées. ... more

Personal Safety & Security Handbook

Bickley, Shaun CARE International (2014) C1

CARE International’s Personal Safety & Security Handbook has been developed to provide practical personal safety and security advice and guidance to all staff working in CARE offices and field sites throughout the world.
Each section has a detailed list of contents at the beginning and cut-ou ... more

Alternative Report on the Compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Peruvian National Confederation of Persons with Disabilities (CONFENADIP) (2011) C1

Staying alive: safety and security guidelines for humanitarian volunteers in conflict areas

David Lloyd Roberts International Comitee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2005) C1

With its expert practical advice on security in situations of armed conflict, this updated set of guidelines will prove invaluable to humanitarian personnel working at the operational level. Following on from the success of the first edition, published in 1999, it addresses new and developing threat ... more

Malteser International Safety and Security Guidelines (SSG)

Ingo Radtke Malteser International (2013)

Mini Lexicon for Basic Communication (Greek/English-Farsi) for Service Providers

UNHCR Greece; EADAP; METAdrasi; (2016) CC

Design and Illustration Ioanna Aravani

Making Schools Inclusive. How change can happen

Pinnock H; Lewis I Save the Children (2008) C1

Making education more inclusive requires schools and education authorities to remove the barriers to education experienced by the most excluded children - often the poorest, children with disabilities, children without family care, girls, or children from minority groups. Also included in the text a ... more

Attacks on Health Care. Prevent - Protect-Provide

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Currently there is no publicly available source of consolidated information on attacks on health care in emergencies. This report is a first attempt to consolidate and analyse the data that is available from open sources. While the data are not comprehensive, the findings shed light on the severity ... more

Communication with the Public in a Nuclear or Radiological Emergency (available in multiple languages)

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (2013)

The aim of this publication is to provide practical guidance for public information officers on the preparation for and response to a nuclear or radiological emergency, and to fulfil in part functions assigned to the IAEA in the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a ... more

ICRC operational security: staff safety in armed conflict and internal violence

Patrick Brugger ICRC (2009)

International Review of the Red Cross Volume 91 Number 874 June 2009

Strategic guidelines to promote the adoption of hand hygiene in schools

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2022) C_WHO

Concepte Note, June 2022