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OCHA Policy Brief on Gendered Drivers, Risks and Impacts of Food Insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2023) CC

It is widely understood that the food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s fastest growing and most neglected crises. It lacks sufficient global focus, resources and urgency. As in so many crises, women and girls are disproportionately affected and shoulder t...he consequences of protracted neglect, with unconscionable impacts on their safety, life chances and agency. Gaining a holistic view of the gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is difficult. This is due to a lack of data and prioritization, and the large geographical and socioeconomic terrain covered by both regions. However, what we do know about this crisis is more than enough to urgently address the needs of women and girls. An OCHA discussion paper on this topic (which will be published imminently, and from which this policy brief is drawn) found that there is: A strong risk of profound regression in gender equality gains made to date in the countries of concern, including on education, sexual and reproductive health, and the economic independence of women and girls (with knock-on effects on broader humanitarian and development outcomes). An increasing challenge to reverse what must be recognized as a protracted and growing gender-based violence (GBV) emergency in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. The food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is protracted, multidimensional and highly gendered, with spiralling impacts on gender equality and food security outcomes. It is driven by interwoven and overlapping factors, including climate change, political instability, conflict, socioeconomic conditions, migration and displacement and, more recently, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Interlinked with these factors are gendered structural drivers of food insecurity, including deeply entrenched gender inequalities and harmful social norms. Gendered risks and impacts of food insecurity include alarming limitations on access to education, sexual and reproductive health rights, women’s agency and participation, and dramatic increases in different existing forms of GBV and the emergence of new ones. Recognition of such gendered dimensions of food insecurity and of the need for a multisectoral approach in the response is key to addressing the crisis, along-side sustained commitment and adequate allocation of resources. This policy brief draws out key findings from the OCHA discussion paper on this topic, which includes a desk review of studies, assessments and reports, and interviews with local women’s organizations on the front lines of the food insecurity crisis in communities across both regions. Below are the most pressing gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity (not in order of priority), as well as key gaps in the current humanitarian response to food insecurity, and recommendations to take forward. more

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Time To Act Stopping Violence, Safeguarding Health Care

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2017) C1

Doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and first-aiders are coming under attack while trying to save lives. They are threatened, arrested or beaten, their hospitals looted or bombed. Some are unable to work because medical supplies can’t get through; some are forced to flee for their lives. Some are e... more

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Global AIDS Monitoring 2021 — Indicators for monitoring the 2016 Political Declaration on Ending AIDS

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

This guideline document lays out the indicators for monitoring the 2016 Political Declaration on ending AIDS. The Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) process has been often referenced as a benchmark for successful international accountability mechanisms.

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Considerações sobre a implementação e o ajuste de medidas de saúde pública e sociais no contexto da COVID-19 Orientação provisória 14 de junho de 2021

Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) OPAS (2021) CC

Considerations on the implementation and adjustment of public health and social measures in the context of COVID-19 Interim guidance 14 June 2021

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Protecting health through urban redevelopment of contaminated sites: planning brief

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) C_WHO

This brief summarizes the lessons learned across Europe on the redevelopment of contaminated sites as a part of urban planning and renewal. Specifically, it aims to provide information on the health and environmental impacts to be considered during site redevelopment projects, and to identify good p... more

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55o conselho director - 68a sessão do comitê regional da OMS para as Américas

Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde; Organização Mundial da Saúde (Américas) (2016) C_WHO

Washington, D.C., EUA, 26 a 30 de setembro de 2016 Tema 4.10 da agenda provisória CD55/14 8 de julho de 2016 Original: inglês

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The Public Health Dimension of the World Drug problem

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

How WHO works to prevent drug use, reduce harm and improve safe access to medicines

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Policy Paper "Flucht und Menschenhandel: Betroffene erkennen, unterstützen und schützen"

KOK e.V. (2017) CC

Das vorliegende Policy Paper zeigt die Erfahrungen der spezialisierten Fachberatungsstellen für Betroffene von Menschenhandel - die im Bundesweiten Koordinierungskreis gegen Menschenhandel vernetzt sind - im Kontext von Flucht auf und schildert die aktuelle Situation in Deutschland aus Sicht der Fa... more

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We Keep It in Our Hearts: Sexual Violence Against Men and Boys in the Syria Crisis

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (2017) C1

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Towards intensified African Union–United Nations cooperation for the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence and protecting the health and rights of women and children in humanitarian settings

UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS); African Union; H6 Partnership (2018) C2

Vanquishing violence and vulnerability in humanitarian settings Background paper for the joint African Union–UNAIDS (in capacity of serving Chair of H6) high-level side event at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, 24 September 2018, at UNHQ, Conference Room 3

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Plano de Ação para a prevenção e o controle do HIV e de infecções sexualmente transmissíveis 2016-2021

Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde; Organização Mundial da Saúde (Américas); Aceite o Desafio (Terminemos com a AIDS) (2016) C_WHO

Washington, D.C. 2016

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O álcool e a COVID-19: o que você precisa saber

Pan American Health Organization PAHO, World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Este folheto informativo contém informações importantes que você deve saber sobre o consumo de álcool e a COVID-19. Aborda, entre outras coisas, a desinformação que está sendo difundida por meio das redes sociais e outros meios de comunicação sobre o álcool e a COVID-19. O mais important... more

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The prevention and elimination of disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

very woman has the right to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to dignified, respectful health care. Many women experience disrespectful and abusive treatment during childbirth in facilities worldwide. Such treatment not only violates the rights of women to respectf... more

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Strategic location modeling of mobile clinics in rural areas in South Africa

Axsel, C. (2015) CC

Final Project Report

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Promoting Positive Environments for Women and Girls - Guidelines for Women and Girls Friendly Spaces in South Sudan

UNICEF (2015) C_UNICEF

The creaNon of ‘friendly spaces’ for women and girls has been a key strategy in the protecNon and empowerment of women 1 and girls in South Sudan since conflict re-erupted in the country in December 2013. This document provides guidance on the aims of these spaces, and how they can best be e... more

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Averting ethnocide: : Indigenous peoples and territorial rights in crisis in the face of COVID-19 in Latin America

Oxfam (2020) CC

There are indigenous communities at high risk in every country of the region. At stake are the lives of 45 million people who belong to more than 800 indigenous peoples. Of these, some 100 are spread across several countries, around 200 maintain voluntary isolation or are in initial contact, and nea... more

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Servindo a um Mundo Ferido em Solidariedade Inter-religiosa

World Council of Churches WCC and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) (2021) CC

Um Chamado Cristão à Reflexão e Ação durante a Pandemia de COVID-19 e Além The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) released a joint document, “Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity: A Christian Call to Reflection and A... more

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Kenya National Violence and Injury Prevention and Control Action Plan 2018 – 2022

Violence and Injury Prevention Unit- Ministry o Health, Kenya (2018) C1

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2020 Global AIDS Update ⁠— Seizing the moment ⁠— Tackling entrenched inequalities to end epidemics

UNAIDS (2020) CC

UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic shows that 2020 targets will not be met because of deeply unequal success; COVID-19 risks blowing HIV progress way off course. Missed targets have resulted in 3.5 million more HIV infections and 820 000 more AIDS-related deaths since 2015 than if the world w... more

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Guia Preliminar: Como lidar com os aspectos psicossociais e de saúde mental referentes ao surto de COVID-19

Pan American Health Organization PAHO, World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Esta nota de instrução resume as principais considerações em Saúde Mental e Apoio Psicossocial (SMAPS) referen-tes ao novo surto de coronavírus (COVID-19). Este documento foi atualizado pela última vez em 17 de março de 2020.