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How to support survivors of gender-based violence when a GBV actor is not available in your area

Inter-Agency Standing Committee (2023) CC

KEY MESSAGES Always talk to a GBV specialist first to understand what GBV services are available in your area. Some services may take the form of hotlines, a mobile app or other remote support. Be aware of any other available services in your area. Identify services provided by humanitarian pa...rtners such as health, psychosocial support, shelter and non-food items. Consider services provided by communities such as mosques/ churches, women’s groups and Disability Service Organizations. Remember your role. Provide a listening ear, free of judgment. Provide accurate, up-to-date information on available services. Let the survivor make their own choices. Know what you can and cannot manage. Even without a GBV actor in your area, there may be other partners, such as a child protection or mental health specialist, who can support survivors that require additional attention and support. Ask the survivor for permission before connecting them to anyone else. Do not force the survivor if s/he says no. Do not proactively identify or seek out GBV survivors. Be available in case someone asks for support. Remember your mandate. All humanitarian practitioners are mandated to provide non-judgmental and non-discriminatory support to people in need regardless of: gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability status, age, ethnicity/tribe/race/religion, who perpetrated/committed violence, and the situation in which violence was committed. Use a survivor-centered approach by practicing: Respect: all actions you take are guided by respect for the survivor’s choices, wishes, rights and dignity. Safety: the safety of the survivor is the number one priority. Confidentiality: people have the right to choose to whom they will or will not tell their story. Maintaining confidentiality means not sharing any information to anyone. Non-discrimination: providing equal and fair treatment to anyone in need of support. If health services exist, always provide information on what is available. Share what you know, and most importantly explain what you do not. Let the survivor decide if s/he wants to access them. Receiving quality medical care within 72 hours can prevent transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and within 120 hours can prevent unwanted pregnancy. Provide the opportunity for people with disabilities to communicate to you without the presence of their caregiver, if wished and does not endanger or create tension in that relationship. If a man or boy is raped it does not mean he is gay or bisexual. Gender-based violence is based on power, not someone’s sexuality. Sexual and gender minorities are often at increased risk of harm and violence due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Actively listen and seek to support all survivors. Anyone can commit an act of gender-based violence including a spouse, intimate partner, family member, caregiver, in-law, stranger, parent or someone who is exchanging money or goods for a sexual act. Anyone can be a survivor of gender-based violence – this includes, but isn’t limited to, people who are married, elderly individuals or people who engage in sex work. Protect the identity and safety of a survivor. Do not write down, take pictures or verbally share any personal/identifying information about a survivor or their experience, including with your supervisor. Put phones and computers away to avoid concern that a survivor’s voice is being recorded. Personal/identifying information includes the survivor’s name, perpetrator(s) name, date of birth, registration number, home address, work address, location where their children go to school, the exact time and place the incident took place etc. Share general, non-identifying information To your team or sector partners in an effort to make your program safer. To your support network when seeking self-care and encouragement. more

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Guidelines for Eye Care

Ministry of Health Uganda (2016) C1

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Risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) for monkeypox outbreaks: Interim guidance, 24 June 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The Interim Guidance for Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) outlines recommendations, considerations and methods to raise awareness, manage risk perception, maintain trust and proactively support people at risk to make informed decisions to protect themselves and others from monkeypo... more

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Best practices for including persons with disabilities in all aspects of developmennt efforts
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United Nations (2011) C2

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A checklist for respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

This checklist is an operational tool to help national authorities develop or revise national respiratory pathogen (inclusive of influenza and coronaviruses) pandemic preparedness plans.

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Operational framework for strengthening human, animal and environmental public health systems at their interface

World Bank (2018) C1

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WHO neonatal resuscitation manikin technical specifications

World Health Organization WHO WHO (2021) CC

The United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities (UNCLSC, 2012) defined 13 health products to end preventable deaths of woman and children. One of those 13 products is the neonatal resuscitator, is indispensable medical device to save newborns from asphyxia at birth. For the efficient use of... more

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The immunological basis for immunization series: module 15: meningococcal disease, update 2020

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

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Ethiopia Country Refugee Response Plan - The integrated response plan for refugees from Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia 2020

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) C1

Refugee protection in the country is provided within the framework of these international and national refugee laws as well as the core international human rights treaties that have been ratified by the country. Continued insecurity within neighbouring states has resulted in sustained refugee moveme... more

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Guidelines for the use of antibiotics in production animals: Cattle, pigs, sheep and goats

The Swedish Veterinary Association SVS (2017) C2

In 1998 the Swedish Veterinary Association decided to adopt a general policy for the use of antibiotics in animals. Since then specifi c policies for the use of antibiotics in dogs and cats have been adopted and in 2011 Guidelines for the use of Antibiotics in Production animals – Cattle and Pigs,... more

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South Africa: National Condoms Policy and Management Guidelines

National Department of Health, Republic of South Africa (2011) C2

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Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context
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World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

1 June 2020 Countries around the world are facing the challenge of increased demand for care of people with COVID-19, compounded by fear, misinformation and limitations on movement that disrupt the delivery of health care for all conditions. Maintaining essential health services: operational guidan... more

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Helping someone with gambling problems: Mental Health first aid guidelines
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MHFA MHFA (2021) CC

In these guidelines we use the term gambling problems to refer to difficulties over time in limiting money or time spent on gambling, which leads to adverse consequences for the person, others, or for the community. This could include someone whose gambling is having a great enough impact on the... more

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Checklist for assessing quality of healthcare - Hospitals

Kenya Ministry of Health (2021) C1

Kenya Quality Model for Health - Hospitals

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Beating the DRUM in Lower-Income Countries: Domestic Resource Use and Mobilization for SDG3

The Governments of Burkina Faso and Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank Group Global Financing Facility (GFF) (2018) CC

This paper has been prepared to inform discussion at the conference “Beating the DRUM - Domestic Resource Use and Mobilization for accelerating progress towards SDG3,”. Many countries face critical shortfalls in domestic resource use and mobilization (DRUM) for health, threatening to push health... more

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Protect the Progress: Rise, Refocus, Recover - 2020 Progress Report on the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030)

UNICEF, World Health Organisation (2020) C_WHO

Conflict, climate crisis and COVID-19 pose great threats to the health of women and children.

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Measles outbreak guide
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World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This guide also draws on the standard operating procedures (SOPs) to apply for measles outbreak response support from the Measles & Rubella Initiative Outbreak Response Fund (17) and includes a section on measles outbreak recovery so that contributing factors and potential root causes are identifi... more

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Standard treatment guidelines neurology (India)

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India (2020) C1

Accessed Febr. 6, 2020

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Guide for Implementing the Monitoring-Training-Planning (MTP) Approach to Build Skills for Pharmaceutical Management

Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program Management Sciences for Health; USAID (2009) CC

In the mid-1980s, recognizing the limitations of traditional training and that the knowledge and skills acquired are not necessarily applied back in the workplace, MSH developed the Monitoring‐Training-Planning (MTP) approach to assist the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health to implement its Child Survi... more

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BCG vaccination induces HIV target cell activation in HIV-exposed infants in a randomized trial

M. A. Gasper, A. C. Hesseling, I. Mohar, et al. JCI insight (2017) C2

Clinical Medicine JCI Insight. 2017;2(7):e91963.

Best practices for including persons with disabilities in all aspects of developmennt efforts recommended

Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context recommended

Helping someone with gambling problems: Mental Health first aid guidelines recommended

Measles outbreak guide recommended

Best practices for including persons with disabilities in all aspects of developmennt efforts
recommended

Maintaining essential health services: operational guidance for the COVID-19 context
recommended

Helping someone with gambling problems: Mental Health first aid guidelines
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Measles outbreak guide
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