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What Are We Learning About Protecting Children in the Community? An inter-agency review of the evidence on community-based child protection mechanisms in humanitarian and development settings

Mike Wessells Save the Children (2008) CC

How to respond to, mitigate, and prevent risks to children’s protection and well-being is a profound, if unanswered, question. Practitioners agree that it is necessary to develop or strengthen protective factors at multiple levels, such as the family, community, and national levels.

Accelerating localised response COVID-19: Pratical Pathways

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC; Protection Cluster; UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) CC

Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying – IPCC
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2021) CC

Press Release for the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanisch

Asia-Pacific Consensus Statement on the Management of Peripheral Artery Disease

Abola, M. T. B.; Golledge, J.; Miyata, T. et al. Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis (2020) CC

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is the most underdiagnosed, underestimated and undertreated of the atherosclerotic vascular diseases despite its poor prognosis. There may be racial or contextual differences in the Asia-Pacific region as to epidemiology, availability of diagnostic and therapeutic mod ... more

Toward Resilience
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Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte L. Sterrett, and Amy Hilleboe Practical Action Publishing Ltd, Catholic Relief Services (2013) C1

A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

Basic Laboratory Protocols for the presumptive Identification of Yersinia Pestis

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2014) C_CDC

Young people’s participation in community-based responses to HIV

UNAIDS; The Pact; UPROOT; et al. (2019) C2

From passive beneficiaries to active agents of change

DISABILITY AND HIV & AIDS IN LESOTHO

Lesotho National Federation of Organisations of the Disabled (LNFOD) (2008) C2

Introduction to Low Cost Sanitation
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Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology CAWST (2011) CC

Planning, Promotion, Contruction & Design. Manual

Rigging the System. Government Policies Co-Opt Aid and Reconstruction Funding in Syria

Human Rights Watch (2019) C1

A Primer on Rapid Visual Screening (RVS)

National Disaster Management Authority India (2020) CC

Consolidating Earthquake Safety Assessment Efforts in India. This document provides succinct instructions on how to perform rapid visual screening (RVS), a quick method of earthquake assessment of buildings. It covers a brief description of RVS and its role as a simplified qualitative assessment in ... more

Comorbidity of post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety in flood survivors: Prevalence and shared risk factors

Dai, W., Kaminga, A.C., Tan, H., Wang, J., Lai, Z., Wu, X., Xiong, Y., Deng, J. & Liu, A. Medicine (2017) CC

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety are both prevalent in trauma-related populations. However, comorbidity of these 2 psychiatric disorders has not been investigated in flood survivors. This study aimed to estimate the extent to which PTSD and anxiety co-occur in flood survivors, and i ... more

Standard operating procedures (SOP) for the national gender based violence datbase (NGBVD)

Ministry of Gender, Labour & Social Development, Uganda (2015) C1

Housing, Land and Property Rights and Peace Agreements: Guidance for the Myanmar Peace Process

Norwegian Refugee Council, UNHCR (2018) C1

This publication explores how housing, land and property rights issues have been addressed in peace agreements concluded over the past three decades. It provides practical guidance for peace negotiators on all sides in Myanmar and outlines how addressing these rights in the peace process will build ... more

COVID References top 10 Daily Science. Vol.2 16 October to 23 October 2020

Hoffmann, C.; B.S. Kamps (2020) CC

There is no secret to our procedure: the daily scanning of the literature helps us to stay afloat in the never-ending waves of new publications about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Many papers discussed in the Top 10 will eventually make it into subsequent editions of COVID Reference.

Water Under Fire: Attacks on water and sanitation services in armed conflict and the impacts on children

Unicef (2021) C_UNICEF

In many conflicts around the world, more children die from diseases linked to unsafe water than from direct violence. UNICEF is releasing Water Under Fire volume 3, a report that highlights the issues children face in accessing water in times of war. The report demonstrates the humanitarian impact o ... more

The Core Humanitarian Standard and the Sphere Core Standards Analysis and Comparison - Interim Guidance, March 2015

Sphere Project (2015) C1

This short guide highlights the fundamentally similar approach to quality and accountability underlying both sets of standards and describes in some detail the similarities and differences between them. It compares the respective structures of the standards and notes their different emphases. It als ... more

Cardiac arrhythmias in low- and middle-income countries

Mkoko, P.; Bahiru, E.; Ajijola, O.A. et al. Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (2019) CC

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are undergoing an epidemiological transition. With an improvement in socioeconomic conditions and an aging population, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), like cardiac arrhythmias, are expected to increase in these countries. However, there are limited studi ... more

Training Manual For National/Regional Supervisors and Monitors. Supplementary Immunization Activities in a Polio Outbreak

Polio Global Eradication Intiative (2010)