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COVID-19 and the Displaced:Addressing the Threat of the Novel Coronavirus in Humanitarian Emergencies

Refugees International (2020) C1

Novel coronavirus will disproportionately impact world’s 70 million displaced people Report recommends stopping asylum seeker deportations, prioritising hygiene and refugee camp decongestion, better communication Displaced people must be included in prevention, mitigation efforts - for s... more

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Increasing Access to Maternity Services in Rural Bangladesh: Sustainable Facility-Community Links

Fistulacare, USAID EngenderHealth (2012) C1

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Implementing the Basic Health Care Provision Fund in Nigeria: A framework for accountability and good governance

Uzochukwu B, Onwujekwe O, Mbachu C (2015) C1

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Snake Bites: Emergency Response, First Aid and Prevention

WorkCare (2015) C1

Fact Sheet

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Best practice guidelines for stroke in Cameroon: An innovative and participatory knowledge translation project

Lynn Cockburn, Timothy N. Fanfon, Alexa Bramall et al. (2015) CC

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Risk Communication and Community Engagement Guidance for Physical and Social Distancing

World Health Organisation (2020) C_WHO

Physical and social distancing measures are associated with limiting contact between people during disease outbreaks. These measures when applied are often enhanced by lockdowns or shutdowns as part of broader risk communication and community engagement strategies to halt the transmission of disease... more

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Protecting forcibly displaced children during the COVID-19 pandemic: UNHCR response and field practices

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) C1

This brief provides a snapshot of child protection interventions by UNHCR and its partners during the pandemic, covering community engagement, case management, alternative care and capacity building. In addition to working with children and communities, UNHCR also engages with authorities through po... more

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Neonatal health in Nepal: analysis of absolute and relative inequalities and impact of current efforts to reduce neonatal mortality

Paudel, D., Shrestha, I.B., Siebeck, M. & Rehfuess, E.A. (2013) CC

Nepal has made substantial progress in reducing under-five mortality and is on track to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4, but advances in neonatal health are less encouraging. The objectives of this study were to assess relative and absolute inequalities in neonatal mortality over time, and to ... more

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Coping with disasters : a guidebook to psychosocial intervention

Ehrenreich, John H; McQuaide, Sharon Mental Health Workers Without Borders (2001) C2

This manual is a guide to psychosocial interventions to help people cope with the emotional effects of disasters. Some are direct responses to the trauma of disasters, while others are longer-term responses. Even more than the physical effects of disasters, the emotional effects cause long-lasting s... more

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Directrices provisionales de bioseguridad de laboratorio para el manejo y transporte de muestras asociadas al nuevo coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV)

OPS OPS (2020) C_WHO

En enero de 2020, el agente etiológico responsable de un grupo de casos de neumonía grave en Wuhan, China, fue identificado como un nuevo betacoronavirus (2019-nCoV), distinto del SARS-CoV y MERS-CoV (1) (2) (3). La secuencia genómica completa de este nuevo agente está disponible y se han desarr... more

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WHO Prequalification of Male Circumcision Devices - Product: ShangRingTM, Number: PQMC 0003-003-00

World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

Public Report PQMC 0003-003-00 WHO PQMC PR June/2015, version 2.0

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Understanding Refugee Trauma: For School Personnel

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network NCTSN (2003) C1

Trauma can affect a refugee child on an individual, classroom, school, and family level. However, just because a student is a refugee, it does not mean he or she has experienced trauma and/or will exhibit symptoms related to trauma. Many refugee children adjust very well to new school settings and o... more

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Strengthening pandemic preparedness planning for respiratory pathogens: policy brief, 27 April 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This policy brief outlines core elements that Member States are encouraged to a) develop an integrated approach to respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning and b) enhance national and sub-national functional capacities for preparedness. In addition, this policy brief highlights suggested ... more

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Zimbabwe: Situation Update, 30 March 2019

World Food Programme, Logistics Cluster (2019) C2

Flooding following Cyclone Idai in mid-March has now affected 270,000 people as of 30 March 2019. • The most heavily affected areas are the districts of Chimanimani and Chipinge in Manicaland which have been isolated due to roads and bridges being washed away. Mashonaland East (Chikomba district)... more

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Plano Estratégico Nacional de Resposta ao HIV e SIDA 2015-2019 (PEN IV)

Conselho Nacional de Combate ao HIV e SIDA , Moçambique (2015) C1

O PEN IV reune informação de inquéritos, estudos epidemiológicos e comportamentais, tendo como objetivo estabelecer os objetivos e metas no combate à epidemia do HIV/SIDA em Moçambique através de uma abordagem que reforça e dinamiza o envolvimento de todos os setores do Estado, Sociedade... more

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Ministry of Health launches a nation-wide Integrated Immunization Campaign for Measles, Polio and Vitamin A Supplementation

World Health Organization (2014)

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Emerging Practice – Fostering peace and respect by bringing women and girls with disabilities concerns into a Women’s Organization

Rural Women Peace Link (RWPL), Bungoma, Kenya (2018) CC

Rural Women Peace Link (RWPL) is a grassroots women-led organization working in rural areas in the west of Kenya to promote local women’s involvement in peace building, governance and development.

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Protection risk analysis for CVA in the Ukraine response

Protection Cluster; Save the Children; Women's Refugee Commission (2023) CC

Over the past few weeks, members of the C4PTF for the Ukraine Response have started mapping the different protection risks that refugees and IDPs are facing in Ukraine and while travelling. This work has been notably built upon efforts conducted in each country, such as the GBV Risk Analysis for CVA... more

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Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4)

U.S. Global Change Research Program (2018) C2

The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) fulfills that mandate in two volumes. This report, Volume II, draws on the foundational science described in Volume I, the Climate Science Special Report (CSSR).2 Volume II focuses on the human welfare, societal, and environmental elements of climate cha... more

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Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s...chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more