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POLICY BRIEF - Accelerating Fertility Decline to Trigger the Demographic Dividend in Rwanda

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) and UNFPA (2017) C2

The Demographic Dividend study on Rwanda assessed the socio-economic and human development potential of our country in the short, medium and long-term period using a comprehensive approach. It generated relevant policy and programme information to g ... more

POLICY BRIEF - Empowering Youth with Quality Jobs to Stimulate the Demographic Dividend in Rwanda

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) and UNFPA (2017) C2

The Demographic Dividend study on Rwanda assessed the socio-economic and human development potential of our country in the short, medium and long-term period using a comprehensive approach. It generated relevant policy and programme information to g ... more

Policy brief on digital health data

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

The new Consolidated guidelines on person-centred HIV strategic information: strengthening routine data for impact 1 aim to help countries improve how routine patient data are collected, analysed and used. They propose a minimum dataset that captures key events in an individual’s interaction with ... more

Policy Brief No. 5 : Practices in Community-Based Health Initiatives

Aga Khan Health Services, Kenya (2015)

Policy Brief: Faith Actors in the COVID-19 Response

World Vision (2020) C2

COVID-19 is stretching formal and informal aspects of community life. The pandemic is overwhelming health systems. Country economies are reaching a breaking point, with particularly significant impact for the livelihoods of vulnerable families and those dependent on daily wages. COVID-19 is also aff ... more

Africa policy brief: Untangling Justice, Peace and Amnesties in the Central African Republic

Valérie Arnould APB (2019) CC

The question of amnesties has come to the forefront once again as the Central African Republic (CAR) started a new round of African Union-mediated peace negotiations on 24 January 2019. While rebel groups demanded a general amnesty as a non-negotiable condition, the government maintained strong oppo ... more

OCHA Policy Brief on Gendered Drivers, Risks and Impacts of Food Insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2023) CC

It is widely understood that the food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s fastest growing and most neglected crises. It lacks sufficient global focus, resources and urgency. As in so many crises, women and girls are disproportionately affected and shoulder t ... he consequences of protracted neglect, with unconscionable impacts on their safety, life chances and agency. Gaining a holistic view of the gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is difficult. This is due to a lack of data and prioritization, and the large geographical and socioeconomic terrain covered by both regions. However, what we do know about this crisis is more than enough to urgently address the needs of women and girls. An OCHA discussion paper on this topic (which will be published imminently, and from which this policy brief is drawn) found that there is: A strong risk of profound regression in gender equality gains made to date in the countries of concern, including on education, sexual and reproductive health, and the economic independence of women and girls (with knock-on effects on broader humanitarian and development outcomes). An increasing challenge to reverse what must be recognized as a protracted and growing gender-based violence (GBV) emergency in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. The food insecurity crisis in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa is protracted, multidimensional and highly gendered, with spiralling impacts on gender equality and food security outcomes. It is driven by interwoven and overlapping factors, including climate change, political instability, conflict, socioeconomic conditions, migration and displacement and, more recently, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Interlinked with these factors are gendered structural drivers of food insecurity, including deeply entrenched gender inequalities and harmful social norms. Gendered risks and impacts of food insecurity include alarming limitations on access to education, sexual and reproductive health rights, women’s agency and participation, and dramatic increases in different existing forms of GBV and the emergence of new ones. Recognition of such gendered dimensions of food insecurity and of the need for a multisectoral approach in the response is key to addressing the crisis, along-side sustained commitment and adequate allocation of resources. This policy brief draws out key findings from the OCHA discussion paper on this topic, which includes a desk review of studies, assessments and reports, and interviews with local women’s organizations on the front lines of the food insecurity crisis in communities across both regions. Below are the most pressing gendered drivers, risks and impacts of food insecurity (not in order of priority), as well as key gaps in the current humanitarian response to food insecurity, and recommendations to take forward. more

Strengthening pandemic preparedness planning for respiratory pathogens: policy brief, 27 April 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This policy brief outlines core elements that Member States are encouraged to a) develop an integrated approach to respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning and b) enhance national and sub ... more

WHO policy brief: Maintaining infection prevention and control measures for COVID-19 in health care facilities, 14 September 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This document aims to encourage countries to develop and implement policies to maintain and strengthen IPC programmes and measures in health care facilities in the context of the current ongoing transmission of the SARS-CoV-2, with recognition that epidemiological trends may vary and the risk of tra ... more

WHO policy brief: COVID-19 testing, 14 September 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the challenges countries face for maintaining their COVID-19 response while addressing competing public health challenges, conflicts, climate change and economic crises. It remains critical for national programmes to continue to offer testing for COVI ... more

WHO policy brief: Clinical management of COVID-19, 14 September 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the challenges countries face for maintaining their COVID-19 response while addressing competing public health challenges, conflicts, climate change and economic crises. WHO continues to support countries in adjusting COVID-19 strategies to reflect succ ... more

Nepal: Policy Brief on Effective implementation of Multi Sector Nutrition Plan (Nepali Version)

Civil Society Alliance for Nutrition, Nepal (CSANN) (2016) C1

Tuberculosis among populations at high risk and people in vulnerable situations. Policy brief

World Health Organization WHO (2025) CC

This policy brief presents a summary of current evidence on vulnerability to TB and proposes interventions for equitable, person-centred, and human rights-based TB prevention and care. It aligns wit ... more

Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction framework. Policy brief

Christoffel-Blindenmission (CBM) (2014)

COVID-19 Rapid Policy Brief - Series 12: COVID-19 Response Capacity with the Health System

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2021) C_WHO

Transforming Food Systems: Regional policy brief

United Nations UN (2021) C2

Analysis on World about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition and more; published on 23 Sep 2021 by ECA, ECLAC and 3 other organizations

WHO COVID-19 policy brief: building trust through risk communication and community engagement, 14 September 2022

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The guidance notes describe key actions that policy-makers at national and subnational levels can take in relation to: diagnostic testing for COVID-19, clinical management of COVID-19, meeting targets for vaccination against COVID-19, maintaining in ... more

Strengthening the health systems response to COVID-19: policy brief: recommendations for the WHO European Region (‎‎1 April 2020)‎‎

World Health Organization (Europe) (2020) C_WHO

Update of recommendations on first- and second-line antiretroviral regimens - Policy Brief

World Health Organization (2019) C_WHO

HIV Treatment