This National Food and Nutrition Policy developed in 2013 builds on several achievements that have improved the status of nutrition and household food security in Rwanda during the past six years. The outlines ambitious but necessary strategies needed to solve serious and
persistent problems includ...ing the high prevalence of child stunting and high levels of anaemia in children and women. The NFNP also takes into account major differences in the economic development environment and the higher national and international priority placed on improving nutrition and related household food security problems in the second decade of the new millennium compared to 2007 when the country’s first National Nutrition Policy was adopted.
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Research results of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention and response before, during and after disasters in Indonesia, Lao PDR and the Philippines
This report contributes new evidence on why and how sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) risks increase during humanitarian disasters.... It details how humanitarian actors can better prevent and respond to such escalation of SGBV, and better meet the needs of affected women, girls, men and boys. This research is based on community views of disaster-affected women, adolescent girls, men and adolescent boys in three South-East Asian countries: Indonesia, Lao PDR and the Philippines.
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The plan aims to practice the preparedness measures and response functions which need to be coordinated among relevant departments and organizations to reduce the risk of earthquakes. The plan has two main parts: preparedness and response. The first part includes the preparedness measures which can ...be practically implemented in collaboration with relevant government departments and communities. The latter part includes the response functions by the National Disaster Management Committee and it’s Work Committees if a damaging earthquake were to occur.
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After Workplace exposures and Sexual Assault
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Therapeutics Information and Pharmacovigilance Centre | TIPC
Made under Section 5 (c) of the Tanzania Food, Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 2003 | Second Edition
La estrategia nacional de participación comunitaria tiene como objetivo promover la participación activa de las organizaciones sociales y comunitarias en la prevención y control de la tuberculosis.
Pretende incorporar a las organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG), a fin de que atiendan a los gru...pos vulnerables, movilizar a la comunidad e implementar estrategias de Información, Educación y Comunicación, con el propósito de superar la brecha de detección y tratamiento oportuno de personas con tuberculosis, tuberculosis y Virus de la Inmunodeficiencia Humana y otras comorbilidades.
Considera también el involucramiento de las municipalidades, a través de sus concejos municipales, así como el fundamentar acciones integrales con la participación activa de la sociedad civil a través de las Comisiones Municipales de Protección Civil, asegurando que esta se responsabilice y cuente con los recursos necesarios para el trabajo con poblaciones específicas.
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Third Edition: Revised October 2012