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Guidance: Integrating MHPSS and Peacekeeping: a Mapping and Recommendations for Practitioners - IASC Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (January 2024)

Inter-Agency Standing Committee (2024) C1

A major problem facing the world is how to build peace following the ravages of increasingly protracted armed conflict. Armed conflicts leave behind shattered, divided societies that are at risk of repeating cycles of violence, and therefore need concerted peacebuilding efforts. Conflicts also take ... more

Guidance for commissioners of older people’s mental health services

Joint Commissioning Panelfor Mental Health (2013) C2

This guide has been written to provide information and practical advice on developing and delivering local plans an strategies to commission the most effective and efficient older people’s mental health services.Based upon clinical best practice guidance ... more

Guidance for the Selection and Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Healthcare Settings

Centers of Disease Control CDC (2014)

CDC has developed this slide set for use by staff development, infection control, and occupational health personnel for training healthcare personnel on how to select and use personal protective equipment PPE to protect themselves from exposure to microbiological hazards in the healthcare setting

Guidance for conducting a country COVID-19 intra-action review (IAR)

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The WHO Guidance for Conducting a Country COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR) was developed to guide countries to conduct periodic review(s) of their national and subnational COVID-19 response, so countries do not miss critical opportunities for lear ... more

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 area ... more

Guidance for Developing a Specimen Transport and Referral System for Viral Load and Infant Virologic HIV Diagnosis Testing Networks

Beard, R. Suzanne; Kasipo, Charles (2016) C1

This document provides a systematic approach in developing a coordinated, standardized, reliable, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable specimen transport and referral system to support IVHD and VL testing networks. This document provides technical and programmatic recommendations on the approp ... more

Guidance on the prioritization of insecticide-treated nets in situations where resources are limited

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

In the context of limited resources, national malaria programmes may need to decide on how to prioritize all WHO-recommended interventions . This guidance document has been developed to support national malaria programmes in prioritization decisions ... more

Note on the protection of migrants in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic

International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC (2020) C1

Many migrants find themselves with limited access, if any, to information about risks, prevention measures, health care and other essential services. Migrants in transit, those in need of international protection or without legal status are likely to be particularly vulnerable, as well as those who ... more

Guidance on the clinical management of acute and chronic harms of club drugs and novel psychoactive substances.

Abdulrahim, D.; and O. Bowden-Jones Novel Psychoactive Treatment UK Network (NEPTUNE) (2015) CC

Rapid hospital readiness checklist: Interim Guidance
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Updated 20 Nov. 2020 Countries can use this checklist of hospital governance, structures, plans and protocols to rapidly determine the current capacities of hospitals to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify gaps and major areas that require investment and action for the development of h ... more

Guidance for orphans and vulnerable children programming

PEPFAR (2012) C2

The U.S. President‘s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

Guidance on the use of mpox vaccines. Revised edition

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2024) C_WHO

Smallpox eradication was certified in 1980. Mpox has been endemic in Central and West African countries since it was first detected in 1958 . It is a zoonosis; cases are often found close to tropical rainforests where various animals carry the orthopoxvirus that causes the disease. In endemic countr ... more

Guidance On Evaluating Conflict, Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities: Working draft for application period

DAC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation and DAC Network on Development Evaluation OECD Publishing (2008)

This working draft develops guidance on conducting effective evaluations of conflict prevention and peacebuilding work. The current working draft will be used for a one year application phase through 2008. It is the result of an ongoing collaborativ ... more

Guidance and technical packages on community mental health services: promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches document is part of the WHO Guidance and technical packages on community mental health serv ... more

Guidance for clinical case management of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (‎TTS)‎ following vaccination to prevent coronavirus disease (‎COVID-19)‎: interim guidance, 19 July 2021

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Guidance on Land Use Planning

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Tsunami Global Lessons Learned Project (2015)

Disaster Recovery Toolkit

Guidance on chlamydia control in Europe

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (2016) C1

This document updates the 2009 ECDC guidance on chlamydia control in Europe. It was developed by a technical expert group which conducted a critical review of the scientific evidence on the epidemiology of chlamydia and the effectiveness of screenin ... more

Guidance on COVID-19 for the care of older people and people living in long-term care facilities, other non-acute care facilities and home care

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, this guidance provides information on infection and prevention control (IPC) for older people, their friends and families, carers, and healthcare providers. Anyone who manages, works, volunteers or provides care ... more

Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon: Case Management of Survivors & At-risk Women, Children and Youth with Disabilities

Women's Refugee Commission (WRC) and UNICEF Lebanon (2018) CC

Persons with disabilities are one of the most vulnerable and socially excluded groups in any crisis-affected community. They may be in hidden in homes, overlooked during needs assessments and not consulted in the design of programs.4 While gender-based violence (GBV) affects women, girls, men and bo ... more

Guidance on Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in the Education Sector – Rural Settings

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

The scope of the Guidance is primarily the education in rural settings in Myanmar, but it covers some of the issues which have pan Myanmar implication and relevance. Considering the importance, complexity and vastness of the subject, similar type of ... more