the aid library

Filter

494

Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4)

U.S. Global Change Research Program (2018) C2

The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) fulfills that mandate in two volumes. This report, Volume II, draws on the foundational science described in Volume I, the Climate Science Special Report (CSSR).2 Volume II focuses on the human welfare, societal, and environmental elements of climate cha ... more

All under one roof. Disability-inclusive shelter and settlements in emergencies

International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies; CBM: Handicap Internationl (2015)

Abuses and Denial of Aid Endangering Ethnic Minorities in Northern Myanmar

Refugees International (2018) C1

In northern Myanmar, nearly 100,000 people continue to live in displacement camps in Kachin and northern Shan States. Most were first displaced by fighting between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army in 2011, and many have been displaced multiple times, including in recent months. ... more

Sustainable Sanitation Practice Planning Tool

Elke Müllegger, Günter Langergraber, and Markus Lechner EcoSan Club (2011)

The significance of death, funerals and the after-life in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia: Anthropological insights into infection and social resistance

Fairhead, J. (2014)

Draft, 8 October 2014

Cultural awareness in times of Ebola

Schwienhorst, E.M.; K. Boegel Medical Peace Work (2015)

Croatia: Population Movement Emergency Appeal n° MDRHR002 Final Report

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2017) C1

Namibia: Training of Trainers Manual on School Health

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) & Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (MOEAC) (2015) C1

Global Monitoring of Disease Outbreak Preparedness: Preventing the Next Pandemic

Harvard Global Health Institute (2018) C1

This report is primarily intended for the community of policymakers and researchers concerned about the rising risks of domestic, regional, and global infectious disease epidemics, and the collective failure to take the coordinated actions required to reduce such risks. These risks include the expec ... more

War on drugs for peace in Afghanistan: Lessons from South America

South Asia Democratic Forum (2018) C2

SADF POLICY BRIEF 31 October 2018 Issue n° 8 ISSN: 2406-5625

Curbing Antimicrobial Resistance in Food Animal Production

Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (2016) C2

Antimicrobials are widely used in food animal production, and use is rapidly increasing. In an era of growing demand for animal products, there is an increasing trend towards the industrial production of food animals, especially in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs). One hallmark of this me ... more

The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security and Nutrition

UN Secretary-General; UN Sustainable Development Group UNSDG (2020) C1

Policy Brief 2 June 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic is a health and human crisis threatening the food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world. Hundreds of millions of people were already suffering from hunger and malnutrition before the virus hit and, unless immediate action is tak ... more

Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s ... chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

Network of WHO Collaborating centres for trachoma

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

SECOND MEETING REPORT DECATUR, GA, USA, 26 JUNE 2016

Improved school-based deworming coverage through intersectoral coordination in Kenya

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2013) C_WHO

This report outlines the coordination and partnership between two key ministries (Education and Public Health) in Kenya, other line ministries, the private sector, NGOs and the community in implementing the first phase of a sub-national school-based deworming exercise. The areas targeted included Co ... more

WHO Guidelines on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for Herbal Medicine
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2007) C_WHO

The manufacturing process is one of the key steps where quality control is required to ensure quality of medicinal products, including herbal medicines. Good manufacturing practices (GMP) is one of the most important tools for this measure.

Ethiopia: POLICY AND PRACTICE INFORMATION FOR ACTION

Ministry of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (2014) C1

Safety in administering medicines for neglected tropical diseases
recommended

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

This manual summarizes key issues related to the safety of NTD medicines and their administration, with a focus on essential medicines used in mass drug administration (MDA), also called preventive chemotherapy. It can be used as a standalone reference manual, but is intended to be used in conjuncti ... more

Latrine Design and Construction Part 1

Somalia WASH Cluster, ACTED, GSA, Save the Children, UNICEF, et al. (2020) CC

Somalia WASH Cluster Guidelines

Integrated School Health Policy

Department of Health & Department of Basic Education, Republic of South Africa (2012) C2