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Yemen Emergency Livelihoods Response Plan: Support to agriculture-based livelihoods in Yemen, January – December 2017

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2017) C1

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Bangladesh/Myanmar: Rakhine Conflict 2017

World Health Organization WHO, Bangladesh (2017) C_WHO

Public Health Situation Analysis and Interventions 10 October 2017

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Gender-based Violence and HIV amongst Internally Displaced Persons, Host Communities and Female Sex Workers in South Sudan

Phineas Jasi IOM (2017) C1

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Review of the national tuberculosis programme in Belarus

P. de Colombani World Health Organization Europe (2016) C_WHO

8–18 December 2015

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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

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Scaling-Up Access to HIV Viral Load Testing (Botwana)

Mine, M. MASA, Ministry of Health, Gabarone, Botswana (2016) C2

Viral Load Scale-up and Decentralized Testing Experience in Botswana. This AIDS 2016 presentation highlights how Botswana’s decentralized testing model provides an example of how “taking the services closer to the people, rather than people coming to the services” can increase access, when s... more

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Uganda: July-September 2016 Facility Stock Status Report

Ministry of Health, Republic of Uganda (2016) C1

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Standards for Prosthetics and Orthotics Service Provision. 2015-2017 work plan

Department of Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP) and NVI World Health Organisation (WHO); USAID; ISPO (2015) C_WHO

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National Plan of Action for Vulnerable Children in Malawi 2015-2019

USAID; PEPFAR; Ministry of Health, Malawi; UNICEF; et al. (2015)

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Policy Brief No. 5 : Practices in Community-Based Health Initiatives

Aga Khan Health Services, Kenya (2015)

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Fiji National Antimicrobial Resistance Action Plan

The Government of Fiji (2015) C2

AMR is a serious and growing global problem. A WHO report released in 2014 stated that this serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future it is happening now in every region of the world and has potential to affect anyone, of any age in any community – a real threat to the public health.... more

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Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - Communicating with Persons of Concern

UNHCR (2014)

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FAO Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak National Response Programme - Sierra Leone, October 2014-September 2015

Food and Agriculture Organization (2014)

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Ethiopian National eHealth Strategy

Ministry of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (2014) C1

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Standards for TB Care in India

DOTS, WHO (2014) C_WHO

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Improving Health Outcomes in Zambia. eLMIS: Automated Data for Integrated Health Logistics Management

USAID Delivery Project; et al. (2014) C1

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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

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Include us in education! A qualitative research study on barriers and enablers to education for children with disabilities in Nepal

Zuurmond, M., L.M. Banks, P. Aryal, et al. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, International Centre for Evidence in Disability, Plan International (2014) C1

A 2013 Plan study across 30 countries found that children with disabilities were on average 10 times less likely to go to school than children without disabilities. This report presents the findings of a follow-up second phase to the research with a qualitative study on barriers and enablers to educ... more

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Key facts on HIV epidemic in Montenegro and progress in 2011

World Health Organization (Europe) (2013) C_WHO

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First Needs Assessment Reporting Template

World Health Organization (2011)