An online training about "culture" for residents.
See how people really live. Imagine the world as a street. All houses are lined up by income, the poor living to the left and the rich to the right. Everybody else somewhere in between. Where would you live? Would your life look different than your neighbours’ from other parts of the world, who sh...are the same income level?
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Anthropology has an important role to play in containing the current Ebola outbreak and the new Ebola Response Anthropology Platform (ERAP) offers an anthropological perspective on the issue. The site is available here:
The International Forum of Indigenous Women (IIWF) has prepared this report in order to have a
document for analysis and systematization of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives
of Indigenous Women, and to identify the strategies promoted by them. This document is expected
to serve as... a political tool for advocacy. The methodology used in this analysis is a gender and
Indigenous Women’s collective and individual human rights approach. The results are mainly based
on a global, participatory survey, conducted in English, French and Spanish languages, aimed at
indigenous women’s organizations and leaders.
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Access to responsive, people-centred health systems is essential to ensure appropriate health care for refugees and migrants throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on intercultural competence and diversity sensitivity, this course contributes to a broader WHO strategy to develo...p an evidence-based response to the public health needs of refugees and migrants.
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Ebola messages based on their qualitative research done in hotspot areas of Bombali and Urban Freetown, Jan-Feb 2015
J Depress Anxiety S3:004. doi:10.4172/2167-1044.S3-004
This paper is therefore designed to review public knowledge and belief about mental disorders (mental health literacy) in developing countries with particular emphasis on the public knowledge and beliefs about causes and symptoms of mental dis...orders, public attitude and perception towards people with mental illness and help seeking behaviors. The review will provide important evidences from developing countries which are relevant to introduce the concept of mental health literacy in Ethiopia as there has been no systemic review of evidences on mental health literacy and to guide the development and implementation of a mental health policy in Ethiopia where mental health policy is absent
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Int Health. 2012 December 1; 4(4): 253–259. doi:10.1016/j.inhe.2012.07.001
BMJ Glob Health 2019;4:e001272. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001272
Trust is an essential component of successful cooperative endeavours. The global health response to the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak confronted historically tenuous regional relationships of trust. Challenging sociopolitical co...ntexts and initially inappropriate communication strategies impeded trustworthy relationships between communities and responders during the epidemic. Social scientists affiliated with the Ebola 100-Institut Pasteur project interviewed approximately 160 local, national and international responders holding a wide variety of roles during the epidemic
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Das Heft bietet eine Fülle von Informationen und enthält wertvolle Tipps zum kultursensiblen Umgang
Wie wird in Deutschland eine Ehe geschlossen? Was bedeutet die Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau? Wie kann ich mich vor Gewalt in der Ehe schützen? Das Handout "Ehe, Familie, Kindererziehung" liefert Antworten auf diese Fragen und vermittelt grundlegende Informationen über die Rolle der Frau in... Deutschland.
Handout zum Download in den Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch, Arabisch, Urdu, Paschtu, Dari, Französisch und Tigrinya
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Child marriage is a widespread practice across Turkana, a nomadic pastoralist region in Kenya. This report explores the issue through the voices of those girls affected by it.
Ein syrischer Flüchtling, der in einem YouTube-Video versucht zu erklären, wer diese Deutschen sind und wie sie ticken. Firas Alshater alias Zukar ist so ein Flüchtling. Noch dazu einer mit Charme und Humor.
Core Knowledge for Emergency Preparedness and Response
Planning, Promotion, Contruction & Design. Manual
Reflections from disability research using the ICF in Afghanistan and Cambodia | Working Paper Series: No. 11
This document is designed to provide UNICEF staff and UNICEF partner staff with principles and concepts that can assist them to respond to the psychosocial needs of children in natural disasters and social emergencies such as armed conflict and other forms of violence. It aims to introduce humanitar...ian workers to psychosocial principles and UNICEF’s position on these principles. It also provides a number of examples from field work of how these principles have been turned into concrete actions. These psychosocial principles and concepts inform both emergency responses and subsequent programmatic responses post-emergency.
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