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Timor-Leste: Disaster Management Reference Handbook

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (2016) C1

Timor-Leste’s vulnerability to natural hazards means if particular care is not taken in the development of the country’s infrastructure, it will remain at risk to disruption.
Timor-Leste developed the 2008 National Disaster Risk Management Policy, which lays out the government’s vison of ... more

Cholera. Characteristics of the disease & it's management

German Red Cross (2015) C2

Presentation

Myanmar (Burma): Disaster Management Reference Handbook

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (2017) C1

Myanmar has made significant progress in its disaster management policies, plans, and procedures since 2008, when Cyclone Nargis impacted the country leaving devastation in its aftermath. The Government of Myanmar (GoM) has modified the government structure and created new authorities and plans to i ... more

Bangladesh: Disaster Management Reference Handbook

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (2017) C1

Climate change is a growing concern for Bangladesh because 90 percent of the country is approximately 10 feet above sea level. An evaluation was completed which discovered that high tides in Bangladesh were increasing 10 times more rapidly than the global average. This predicted rapid increase in se ... more

UNHCR Greece Factsheet - July 2020

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) CC

This month 600 people reached Greece, mostly to Lesvos island. UNHCR with IOM and UNICEF welcomed the latest relocations of 49 unaccompanied children from Greece to Portugal and Finland and called for more. The need for such solutions is high as only one in four has a place in a shelter. The prematu ... more

South Sudan: IDP Site Multi-Sector Needs and Vulnerabilities Survey (FSNMS+): Bentiu IDP Camp, October 2021 - South Sudan

IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix - South Sudan (2022) C2

Assessment in English on South Sudan about Education, Food and Nutrition, Drought, Epidemic and more; published on 22 Jul 2022 by IOM

Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: progress report, 2023

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Weekly epidemiological record WER9948-707-717 In English and French

Papua New Guinea: Disaster Management Reference Handbook

Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (2016) C1

The 2012 NDRMP lays out the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) architecture of the country and provides guidance for DRM intervention at all levels. However, implementation has been slow and resource challenges exist throughout the government.
The PNG government’s policy and institutional framework ... more

Managing climate risks for people’s health and well-being

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation; Myanmar Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) (2017) C1

Policy Guidance Brief 2
• The potential health risks from climate change include: increase of waterborne and vector-borne diseases, heat-related illnesses, injuries and deaths, food insecurity and increased malnutrition. The poor, women, children and the elderly, as well as communities living ... more

School Lessons Lesson 8: Hygiene

SODIS Sauberes Trinkwasser für alle (2011)

HURRICANE MATTHEW - Haiti Donor brief & funding request 13 Okctober 2016

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

Multiple Indicator Survey (MICS 200) India. Summary Report

Dept. of Women and Child Health Development, India; UNICEF India (2001)

Guidelines For The Control Of Epidemics Due To Shigella Dysenteriae Type 1

World Health Organization (1995)

Sierra Leone Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) 2013

National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) Sierra Leone, Statistics Sierra Leone, University of Sierra Leone, et al. (2014) C1

UNICEF Zimbabwe Humanitarian Situation Report (Cyclone Idai) 24 March 2019

UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2019) CC

As of 21 March 2019, a total of 250,000 people are reported to be affected by the floods in nine districts. An estimated 48 per cent of the affected population is under 18 years of age. There is limited road access in the Chimanimani, the worst affected district. An estimated 60,000 children are ... more

Namibia Statistics

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2016) C1

Tackling Drug-Resistant Infections Globally: Final Report and Recommendations

The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (2016) CC

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. Checklist
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC (2008) C1

Armed conflicts and natural disasters cause significant psychological and social suffering to affected populations. The psychological and social impacts of emergencies may be acute in the short term, but they can also undermine the long-term mental health and psychosocial well-being of the affected ... more

A journey towards Health in All Policies in Tanzania

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Health in All Policies (HiAP) promotes health and equity. It is based on the recognition that our greatest health challenges for example, non-communicable diseases, health inequities and inequalities, climate change, and spiraling health care costs are highly complex and often linked through the soc ... more

Point of Entry Field Manual for Technical Staff working at Airport Health Organisations, Port Health Organisations and Border Quarantine Organisations

Government of India, Directorate General of Health Services, Public Health- International Health division (2015) C1