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Evaluation of Protection in Humanitarian Action

Christoplos, I. and Dillon, N. with Bonino, F. ALNAP (2018) CC

This companion to the ALNAP EHA Guide offers protection-specific insights for evaluators and evaluation commissioners across the humanitarian sector. It covers the planning, data management and analysis phases of evaluation and addresses a range of challenges that – whilst not all unique to protec ... more

Mental Health Reforms

Mercer, E; Germanavicius, A.; Juodkaite D.; et al. Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP) (2011) C2

Special issue: Mental Health Challenges in Lithuania Nos. 1-2 '11

Positive Mental Health, fighting Stigma and promoting resiliency for children and adolescents

Matthew Hodes and Susan Gau IACAPAP (2016) C2

The International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) aims to promote the mental health and development of children and adolescents worldwide. It seeks to achieve this by contributing to the training and professional development of the child and adole ... more

Culture and reform of mental health care in central and eastern Europe

World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office for Europe (2018) C_WHO

The WHO Regional Office for Europe, the WHO Collaborating Centre on Culture and Health at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom) and the National Institute of Mental Health (Czechia) convened a workshop on culture and reform of mental health care in central and eastern Europe on 2–3 October 201 ... more

Good Practice Manual On HIV and AIDS awareness raising and impact

Restless Development; Irish Aid (2011) C1

WHO alcohol brief intervention training manual for primary care

World Health Organization (Europe) (2017) C_WHO

Alcohol contributes significantly to the disease and mortality burden in the WHO European Region, and primary health care systems play an important role in reducing the impact of harmful alcohol use. Screening and brief interventions (SBIs) for alcohol are an evidence-informed approach to addressing ... more

ECDC/EFSA/EMA second joint report on the integratedanalysis of the consumption of antimicrobial agents andoccurrence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria fromhumans and food-producing animals

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) andEuropean Medicines Agency (EMA) (2017) C_CDC

The second ECDC/EFSA/EMA joint report on the integrated analysis of antimicrobial consumption (AMC) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria from humans and food-producing animals addressed data obtained by the Agencies’ EU-wide surveillance networks for 2013–2015. AMC in both sectors, exp ... more

Antibiotic Stewardship in the Hospital Environment Getting Started Guide

Best Care Always South Africa (2011) C2

The era of effective antibiotics is coming to a close. In just a few generations, many “miracle medicines”have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were intended to eradicate. Bacteria quickly adapt to the presence of antibacterial agents in order ... more

Safe Back to School: A Practitioner’s Guide

Save the Children; Education Cluster; Protection Cluster et al. (2020) C2

The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of disruption to education, impacting over 90% of the world’s student population: 1.54 billion children, including 743 million girls. School closures and the wider socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on communities and society also disrup ... more

Pastoral Care in a Clinical Setting: the Role Hospital Chaplaincy Plays as Part of a Broader Medical Team.

Atherstone D. (2011) C1

A thesis submitted for the Degree of Master of Theology at the South African Theological Seminary

Global Humanitarian Response Plan COVID-19 Progress Report: Final Progress Report 22 February 2021

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2021) C1

2020 was a year like no other. Amidst on-going humanitarian crises, largely fuelled by conflict and violence but also driven by the effects of climate change – such as the largest locust infestation in a generation – the world had to contend with a global pandemic. In less than one year (March-D ... more

International Technical and Programmatic Guidance on Out-of-School Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)

UNFPA; World Health Organization WHO, UNICEF; et al. (2020) C_WHO

An evidence-informed approach for non-formal, out-of-school CSE programmes that aims to reach young people from left-behind populations This guidance is intended to assist anyone designing and/or implementing CSE in out-of-school settings, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This includ ... more

Pandemic-related disruptions to schooling and impacts on learning proficiency indicators: A focus on the early grades

UNESCO (2021) CC

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, echoed the concerns of people and organisations around the world when he recently referred to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on schooling as a ‘generational catastrophe’. .

Regional Migrant Response Plan for the Horn of Africa and Yemen, 2022

International Organization for Migration IOM (2022) CC

The regional Migrant Response Plan (MRP) for the Horn of Africa and Yemen includes urgent life-saving humanitarian and protection interventions to improve safe and dignified access to basic services for migrants and host communities while ensuring medium- to long-term actions aimed at addressing the ... more

Exploring the Intersection of Sanitation, Hygiene, Water, and Health in Pastoralist Communities in Northern Tanzania

Barasa, V.; Waldman, L. IDS (2022) CC

This paper explores access to water, sanitation, and health in pastoral communities in northern Tanzania. It argues that the concept of gender, used on its own, is not enough to understand the complexities of sanitation, hygiene, water, and health. It explores pastoralists’ views and perspectives ... more

Climate–Poverty Connections: Opportunities for synergistic solutions at the intersection of planetary and human well-being

Project Drawdown (2022) CC

Project Drawdown (2022) provides evidence of how climate solutions can also be win-win opportunities for meeting development and human well-being needs while boosting prosperity for rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The report summarizes the co-benefits of five groups of a subs ... more

Agriculture in Africa

NEPAD (2020) CC

Transformation and outlook

The public health implications of the Paris Agreement: a modelling study

Hamilton I., Kennard H., McGushin A. et al. (2021) C2

The Lancet Planetary Health, Vol.5 Issue 2, Feb. 1,2021. Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) serve to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement of staying “well below 2°C”, which could also yield substantial health co-benefits in the process. However, existing NDC commitments are inadequa ... more

South Sudan: IDP Site Multi-Sector Needs and Vulnerabilities Survey (FSNMS+): Bentiu IDP Camp, October 2021 - South Sudan

IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix - South Sudan (2022) C2

Assessment in English on South Sudan about Education, Food and Nutrition, Drought, Epidemic and more; published on 22 Jul 2022 by IOM

Worldwide Control and Management of Chagas Disease in a New Era of Globalization: a Close Look at Congenital Trypanosoma cruzi Infection.

Abras A., Ballart C., Fernández-Arévalo A., Clinical Microbiology Reviews (2022) CC

April 2022 Volume 35 Issue 2 e00152-21 Population movements have turned Chagas disease (CD) into a global public health problem. Despite the successful implementation of subregional initiatives to control vectorial and transfusional Trypanosoma cruzi transmission in Latin American settings where t ... more