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Africa, WASH, and the Millennium Development Goals: A Local Systems Case Study of How Senegal Achieved MDG Target 7c

McGahey, Christopher USAID (2017) C1

Nationally, Senegal met the MDG target for water supply access. It did this by engaging the public and private sectors to effectively invest and report on investments. It focused on larger population centers, less on remote regions of the country. Its achievements set the stage for more equitable an ... more

West Africa Desert Locust Crisis Appeal (May–December 2020)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO; reliefweb (2020) C2

Recent forecasts by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have indicated a risk of locust invasion in West Africa from June 2020. From East Africa, some swarms could reach the eastern part of the Sahel and continue westwards from Chad to Mauritania. Surveillance and co ... more

Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Migration: Training Guide

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR (20023) CC

This training guide is designed to enable participants to understand the human rights perspective on migration, and how human rights laws and standards can be operationalized to make migration safer and an empowering experience for all. It provides an introduction to related principles and issues an ... more

The West African Initiative for Climate-Smart Agriculture (WAICSA)

Chiriac, D.; et al. GIZ; Bloomberg Philatrhopies, IFAG; et al. (2019) CC

The Lab identifies, develops, and launches sustainable finance instruments that can drive billions to a low-carbon economy. The 2019 Global Lab Cycle targets four specific sectors across mitigation and adaptation: blue carbon in marine & coastal ecosystems; sustainable agriculture for smallholde ... more

Compendium of forgotten foods in Africa: A companion publication for Integrating Africa’s forgotten foods for better nutrition
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2024) CC

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has launched a new Compendium of forgotten foods in Africa which is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive collection of 100 African forgotten food crops. Also referred to as neglected, underutilized or orphan crops, these species offer valua ... more

Creating a Healing Environment - Volume II: Technical Papers

John Frederick International Labour Organization IPEC & Trafficking in Children-South Asia (TICSA) (2002) C1

Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and Occupational Integration of Child Survivors of Trafficking and Other Worst Forms of Child Labour |

Catholic Social Teaching and Social Development in Africa

Centre for Social Justice and Ethics, CUEA (2020) C2

A paper presented during a conference on The Catholic Social Teaching and its Social and Political impact on the Development 9thto 10th December, in Schloss Eichholz Koln/Cologne/GermanyPresented by Sr. Dr. Elizabeth Nduku accessed July 2020

Humanitarian Access in situations of armed conflict Field manual - Edition 2.0
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Conflict Dynamics International; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC (2014) C1

The companion Handbook on Humanitarian Access presents the normative framework pertaining to humanitarian access in situations of armed conflict, and therefore serves as a useful reference source for humanitarian practitioners on the normative framework. This initial version of the Field Manual – ... more

Attitudes of the Public in India towards People with Intellectual Disabilities

Gary N. Siperstein, Ph. D. Keerthi Sugumaran, Jennifer Norins Bardon, Robin C. Parker, M.S. University of Massachusetts Boston (2004) CC

The Cost of Security Risk Management for NGOs

Finucane, C.; European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2013) C2

The Cost of Security Risk Management for NGOs explores the costs related to safety and security management for aid programmes. It aims to assist all aid practitioners to determine their risk management expenditure more accurately, and demonstrate an evidence-based approach when presenting this infor ... more

To Stay and Deliver - Good practice for humanitarians in complex security environments

Jan Egeland, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; Adele Harmer and Abby Stoddard, Humanitarian Outcomes Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2011) C2

The report offers an analysis of the broader challenges to securing humanitarian action and recommends areas for improvement. This study will contribute to improving the way humanitarians ‘do business’ in complex security environments. Document also available in French, Arabic and Spanish.

NDRRMC Update SitRep No. 17 re Preparedness Measures and Effects for Typhoon "OMPONG" (I.N. "MANGKHUT")

Government of the Philippines (2018) C1

as of 12:00 AM, 17 September 2018 - 6:00 AM, 17 September 2018

Building Agreement on Restitution Rights with the Myanmar Peace Process and National Legal FrameworkK. Manual for Practioners

Norwegian Refugee Council, Displacement Solutions, Joint Peace Fund (2019) C1

This manual outlines proposals for the insertion of housing, land and property restitution rights simultaneously within the context of the ongoing peace process and within broader national legal reform efforts, including work towards a national land law. The paper begins by emphasising that many cou ... more

War child: "I´ve moved, my rights haven't" (Towards a global action plan for children forced to flee)
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War Child War Child (2016) C1

We live in a world in which 28 million children have been driven from their homes as a result of conflict, persecution and insecurity¹. If current trends continue, more than 63 million children could be forced to flee by 2025², of which over 25 million will cross borders and become refugees. At ... more

Schwereeinschätzung von COVID-19 mit Vergleichsdaten zu Pneumonien aus dem Krankenhaussentinel für schwere akute Atemwegserkrankungen am RKI (ICOSARI)

K. Tolksdorf; S. Buda; E.Schuler; et al. Robert Koch Institut (RKI); Epidemiologisches Bulletin (2020) C2

Epidemiologisches Bulletin 14 | 2020 Online vorab: 27. März 2020 Epid Bull 2020;14:3 – 9 | DOI 10.25646/6601

Global Education Monitoring Report 2020: Latin America and the Caribbean: Inclusion and education: All means all

UNESCO (2020) C1

Key Messages and Recommendations. The Report, Todos y todas sin excepción, produced by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC /UNESCO Santiago), along with the Laboratory of Education, Research and Innovation in ... more

Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa

Sikora, R.A.; et al. Routledge (2020) CC

Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes

Manual para diagnóstico em doença de Chagas

Meis, J.de (2017) CC

Brazil

Chagas Disease: Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in Adults and Adolescents with HIV

Panel on Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in Adults and Adolescents with HIV Clinical Info HIV (2023) CC

Epidemiology Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and transmitted to humans by infected triatomine bugs, and less commonly by transfusion, organ transplant, from mother to infant, and in rare instances, by ingestion of contaminated food or ... more

Global issue of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights

UN Human Rights Council (2016) CC

Progress report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (A/HRC/33/53) (Advance edited version)