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Ways out of the global health crisis

Seitz, K. Misereor, Brot für die Welt, Global Policy Forum GPF (2021) C1

Healthy people, healthy animals and a healthy environment worldwide with the One Health approach. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically demonstrated just how close the link is between humans, animals, and the environment, and has highlighted and aggravated existing challenges. The destruction of na ... more

Global gendered impacts of the Ukraine crisis on energy access and food security and nutrition

Economic Empowerment Section of UN Women United Nations UN (2022) C1

The war in Ukraine has had devasting impact on women and girls worldwide, widening gender gaps and increasing rates of food insecurity, malnutrition and energy poverty. This brief reviews the available evidence of that impact, recommending urgent attention to its consequences for women and girls. I ... more

Non-conventional humanitarian interventions on Ebola outbreak crisis in West Africa

Tambo, Ernest (2014)

Infectious Diseases of Poverty 2014, 3:42 http://www.idpjournal.com/content/3/1/42

Report on refugee health: assessment of the Bulgarian health system’s needs within the context of the crisis in Ukraine

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis on 24 February 2022, WHO has supported Government-led efforts and initiatives alongside key partners on the ground. Building on efforts to date, and working alongside Bulgaria’s health authorities to bring ... more

The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crisis of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

Oxfam (2021) CC

24 Nov. 2021 Action against gender-based violence being pushed to the outlying margins of the global COVID-19 response A new Oxfam report shows an undeniable increase in gender-based violence (GBV) during the COVID-19 pandemic around the world to which too many governments and donors are not doi ... more

The world's most neglected displacement crisis

Norwegian Refugee Council (2018) C1

Useful information for people affected by the crisis in Ukraine / Корисна інформація для людей, які постраждали від кризи в Україні

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Ukrainian Red Cross Society (2022) CC

We know that your current situation is incredibly dangerous and distressing for you and your loved ones. You are not alone. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Ukrainian Red Cross Society are doing their best to help you. You can contact the Ukrainian Red Cross Society from ... more

Building blocks out of the crisis: The UN’s SDG Stimulus Plan

Molina G. and L. Jensen United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2023) CC

The UN’s SDG Stimulus Plan, which calls for additional liquidity, effective debt restructuring and the expansion of development financing, has the potential to free up significant fiscal space in developing economies. For 52 most debt-vulnerable economies, a 30 percent haircut of 2021 public exter ... more

Building resilience in response to the Syria Crisis - A UNDP project compendium for partners

UN Development Programme (2015)

Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Syria Crisis: A Journalist's Handbook [EN/AR]

UN Population Fund (2015)

UNFPA launches Journalist’s Handbook: Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Syria Crisis Amman, 9 March 2015 – Under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Rym Ali, UNFPA launched a handbook on Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in the ... more

Sitrep: UNAIDS response to the crisis in Ukraine

UNAIDS (2022) C_WHO

11 April 2022

WHO response to the Ukraine crisis: February 2023 bulletin

World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

This bulletin focuses on the situation in Ukraine and several key refugee-receiving countries (‎Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, and Slovakia)‎, with the understanding that other countries in the European Region are also receiving Ukrainian refugees and WHO is pr ... more

Quality Midwifery Care in the Midst of Crisis: Midwifery Capacity Building Strategy for Northern Syria (2017-2021)

UN Women, UNFPA; Health Cluster Turkey Hub; EU (2018) CC

Midwifery Capacity Building Strategy for Northern Syria 2017-2021 Available in Arabic

Inside efforts to prevent a regional Ebola crisis in central Africa

Fistin Mahamba IRIN (2019) CC

Six months since the start of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak – the second worst in history, with more than 400 people dead – this special report evaluates efforts to prevent the disease from spreading internationally and sparking a regional crisis ... more

Guía laboral práctica para afrontar la crisis del COVID-19

Ruge; UGT (2020) C2

Accessed: 02.05.2020 Guía sindical práctica Dirigido a personas afiliadas y ciudadanía en general El presente documento está elaborado con la información que hemos ido extrayendo de la normativa aprobada por el Gobierno desde el anuncio de Estado de Alarma y apoyado en gran medida en la ... more

News & Terrorism - Communicating in a Crisis: Chemical Attack

National Academy of Sciences (2004) C2

A fact sheet from the National Academies and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

The Middle East Program for Youth in Crisis at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Brett D. Nelson, Maya Fehling, Margaret E. Tierna, Zina Maan Jarrah Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (2015)

Examining the needs of at‐risk youth in the Middle East and North Africa: A multi‐method landscape analysis and systematic literature review

WHO's response to the Ukraine crisis

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Since 24 February 2022, the war in Ukraine has caused widespread suffering to its people and serious damage to the country’s infrastructure. Attacks on the country’s health system and its power network threaten people, compromise the provision of health care, and complicate the distribution of ... more

Antenatal Guidelines for Primary Health Care in Crisis Conditions

Cristina Otero Garcia ICRC (2005)

These guidelines are designed for ICRC and other health professionals – nurses, midwifes, doctors – who either lack experience in antenatal care or are not used to working in countries where medical infrastructure is underdeveloped or non-existent

Impact and implications of the Ebola crisis

Rohwerder, B. Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (2014)

What are the political, economic, social and security implications of the Ebola crisis, with a particular focus on Sierra Leone?