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Best Practices for Engaging Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Establishing Synergies with the Education Sector: Learning from Protracted Refugee Settings in Uganda and Rwanda

Child Protection in Crisis Save the Children (2013) CC

The education sector forms an important part of the child protection response in refugee settings, and UNHCR’s Education Strategy (2012-16) reflects a focus on refugee education as a core component of UNHCR’s protection mandate. The right to education for all children also forms part of the Unit ... more

Assessing Facility Capacity, Costs of Care, and Patient Perspectives. Health Service Provision in Kenya

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (2014) C1

Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Syria Crisis: A Journalist's Handbook [EN/AR]

UN Population Fund (2015)

UNFPA launches Journalist’s Handbook: Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Syria Crisis Amman, 9 March 2015 – Under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Rym Ali, UNFPA launched a handbook on Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in the Syria Crisis to help journalists better understand ... more

Status Report - WHO Collaborating Centres in the Americas, 2022

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2022) C_WHO

Updated 2 June 2022.# This entry contains the Status Report of WHO Collaborating Centres in the Americas by Country and a new document with information of Collaborating Centres by Outcome of the Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization 2020‑2025.

Evaluation involvement of local HIV/AIDS nongovernmental organisations in Benin

Maurice T. Agonnoude, François Champagne, Nicole Leduc African Evaluation Journal (2016) C2

African Evaluation Journal ISSN: (Online) 2306-5133, (Print) 2310-4988 Background: For some years, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society have become increasingly involved in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. But even though their role is well appreciated, the ... more

Managing climate risks for people’s health and well-being

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation; Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) (2017) C1

Policy Guidance Brief 2
• The potential health risks from climate change include: increase of waterborne and vector-borne diseases, heat-related illnesses, injuries and deaths, food insecurity and increased malnutrition. The poor, women, children and the elderly, as well as communities living ... more

Risk Communication and Community Engagement Preparedness and Readiness Framework: Ebola Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo in North Kivu

World Health Organization WHO; UNICEF; IFRC, et al. (2018) CC

Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) is an essential part of any disease outbreak response. Risk communication in the context of an Ebola outbreak refers to real time exchange of information, opinion and advice between frontline responders and people who are faced with the threat of Eb ... more

Gender in Emergencies: Useful Field Base Learning/Practice Gender Mainstreaming Tool

Environmentally Sustainable Development supported by World Bank (2007)

The toolkit comprises ready-to-use material designed expressly for World Bank task managers working in the water and sanitation sector. It presents a range of tools for gender analysis and practical “how-to” strategies collected from program and project experience around the world. It is one of ... more

Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana

Ursula M Read, Edward Adiibokah and Solomon Nyame Globalization and Health (2009) CC

The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within health policy worldwide. The maltreatment of the mentally ill in many low-income countries is widely reported within psychiatric hospitals, informal healing centres, and family hom ... more

The international management development programme

International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (2016)

Training leaders in public health IMDP 2016 Training Catalogue

The State of the World’s Antibiotics Report 2021

Siriam, A.; et al. The Center For Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy CDDEP (2021) CC

A Global Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Drivers. Since the first State of the World’s Antibiotics report in 2015, antimicrobial resistance has leveled off in some high-income countries but continues to rise in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where access to antibiotic ... more

EU Drug Strategy

EU European Union (2022) CC

The Strategy aims to protect and improve the well-being of society and of the individual, to protect and promote public health, to offer a high level of security and well-being for the general public and to increase health literacy. The Strategy takes an evidence-based, integrated, balanced and ... more

Guidelines to reduce stigma Guide 3: A roadmap to stigma reduction: an empowerment intervention

ILEP International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations (2011)

Achieving Regional Integration: The key to success for the fight against hunger in West Africa

Frederic Mousseau ACF International Network and the Oakland Institute (2011)

Zero Hunger Phase 3

Low birthweight: country, regional and global estimates

World Health Organization WHO, UNICEF (2021) C_WHO

This report presents country, regional and global estimates of low birth weight for 2000, together with a detailed description of the methods used in calculating the estimates. Some limited data on trends are also included. The limitations of low-birth-weight data are described and recommendations a ... more

Zika. CDC Draft Interim Response Plan

Centers for Disease Prevention and Control CDC (2016) C_CDC

Disease Surveillance, Emergency Preparedness and Response in Eastern and Southern Africa

World Bank, et al. (2021) CC

A Situational Assessment and Five-YearAction Plan for the Africa CDC Strengthening Regional Public Health Institutions and Capacity for Surveillance and Response Program

National Family Planning Costed Implemetation Plan 2017-2020

Ministry of Health, Kenya Ministry of health (2017) C1

Community Case Management Essentials: Treating Common Childhood Illnesses in the Community

David Marsh, Ashley Aakesson, Kechi Anah et al. CORE Group; Save the Children; BASICS; MCHIP (2012)

2nd edition. Known as “Community Case Management of Sick Children” (CCM), this approach sends community-based health workers out to find, diagnose, and successfully treat sick children, in partnership with their families. Inspired by the classic “Immunization Essentials”, this guide methodic ... more

Public Health Aspects of Mental Health Among Migrants and Refugees: A Review of the Evidence on Mental Health Care for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the WHO European Region

Priebe, S.; D. Giacco, and Rawda El-Nagib. World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office Europe (2016) C_WHO

Health Evidence Network Synthesis Report, No. 47 The increasing number of refugees, asylum seekers and irregular migrants poses a challenge for mental health services in Europe. This review found that these groups are exposed to risk factors for mental disorders before, during and after migration. ... more