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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

Community-based rehabilitation: cBr guidelines - Introductory booklet (thai)

Kamala Achu, Kathy Al Jubah, Svein Brodtkorb, WHO (2010) C_WHO

Community-Based Interventions for Stroke Provided by Nurses and Community Health Workers: A Review of the Literature

Gayenell S. Magwood, Michelle Nichols et al J Neurosci Nurs. (2020) CC

Community-based interventions are vital for facilitating poststroke recovery, increasing community participation, and raising awareness about stroke survivors. To optimize recovery and community reintegration, there is a need to understand research ... more

Community-Based Interventions for the Prevention and Control of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Polidano, K.; Wenning, B.; Ruiz-Cadavid. et al Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute MDPI (2022) CC

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic disease caused by infection with a vector-borne protozoan parasite of the genus Leishmania spp. The parasite is transmitted by the bite of an infected phlebotomine sand fly. Infection results in skin lesions which take a long time to heal and may leave per ... more

Strengthening countries’ capacities to adopt and adapt evidence-based guidelines: a handbook for guideline contextualization

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Trustworthy, evidence-based health guidelines form the basis of national policies affecting both patients and health-care workers. Emphasizing the link between robust evidence and people’s trust in their health systems, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO ... more

Addressing Gender-Based Violence Across Contexts: Gender-Based Violence Interagency Minimum Standards and the Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2022) C_WHO

UNFPA implements programmes addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in 153 countries and territories, many of which face humanitarian emergencies. Leading resources used by GBV practitioners include the Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Gender- ... more

Community-Based Surveillance: guiding principles

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (2017) C1

Establishing a community-based disease surveillance system is key step to improving the early detection and assessment of outbreaks

Serology-based tests for COVID-19
recommended

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2020) CC

This page serves to provide up to date information on serology tests that are in development or available for use. Importantly, many of these tests have been approved for research use only, which indicates that they are not yet approved for use as a public health diagnostic tool or for at-home diagn ... more

Home-Based Care - Reference Guide for COVID-19

IFRC; FHI 360; Food for the Hungry et al. reliefweb (2020) CC

This guide focuses on three main areas: how to support a person whose condition warrants home care because of non-severe symptoms and home care is recommended by local jurisdictions; how to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the home; and how to provide emotional support to family members. While this ... more

Community- Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)

World Vision International (2017) C1

Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) is a decentralised community-based approach to treating acute malnutrition. Treatment is matched to the nutritional and clinical needs of the ... more

Community-based rehabilitation: CBR guidelines - Health component
recommended

Kamala Achu, Kathy Al Jubah, Svein Brodtkorb, WHO (2010) C_WHO

Available in: English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Tajik, Vietnamese, Uzbek http://www.who.int/disabilities/cbr/guidelines/en/

Gender-based violence and COVID-19. Summary

UNDP (2022) C1

Actions, Gaps and the Way Forward

Community based Health Insurance programm in Ethiopia: Assessing institutional and financial sustainability

Johns B, Haile M, Abebe Z United States Agency for International Development USAID (2018) CC

This study has two broad objectives. Thefirst objective was to assess the financialsustainability of CBHI schemes, focusing on schemes that have been operational for more than twoyears. The first componentprovidesquantitative descriptions of enrollment, utilization, and financial solvency of CBHI sc ... more

Hospital-based birth defects surveillance: a guide to establish and operate

World Health Organization ( WHO), Regional Oﬃce for South-East-Asia (2016) C_WHO

Birth defect has been an emerging major cause of child mortality in the region. Scarcity of the birth defects information hampers policy decisions and control measures at national level. In order to create evidence for action for birth defects prevention in the region, WHO-SEARO in collaboration wit ... more

Psychological interventions implementation manual: Integrating evidence-based psychological interventions into existing services

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Evidence-based psychological interventions are an important part of health, social, protection and education services and can help increase access to effective mental health treatments and progression towards universal health coverage. This manua ... more

I See That It Is Possible - Gender-based Violence Disability Toolkit (Arabic Version)
recommended

Women's Refugee Commission, et al. (2015) C1

This toolkit is intended to support GBV staff to build disability inclusion into their work, and to strengthen the capacity of GBV practitioners to use a survivor-centered approach when providing services to survivors with disabilities. The tools are designed to complement existing guidelines, prot ... more

Syllabus on diploma in community based rehabilitation (D-CBR) - India

Rehabilitation Council of India, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (2007) C2

Rights-based knowledge creation in sexual and reproductive health. An introductory guide

B. Subha Sri Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) (2022) C2

Human rights-based approaches to the creation of knowledge involve application of human rights principles to both the content and process of knowledge creation. Human rights-based approaches have sp ... more

Gender-based violence and child protection among Syrian refugees in Jordan, with a focus on early marriage

UNWomen (2013)

Findings from this report reveal that, rates of early marriage are high, a significant percentage of children contribute to the household’s income or are its main source of income, and restrictions on the mobility of women and girls constrain their participation in social and economic activities a ... more

Facility based integrated management of neonatal and childhood illness (F-IMNCI) - Facilitators Guide (Facility Based Care)

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India; WHO; UNICEF (2009) C_WHO