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Sudan: Food Security Outlook Update, October 2016 to May 2017

Famine Early Warning System Network (2016) C1

Like living in a hell. Police abuses against child and adult migrants in Calais

Human Rights Watch (2017) C1

You can download the report in Englisch and French. Summaries available in Arabic, Amharic, Dari, Tigrinya, Pashto

Health Professionals Guide to the ATT - Promoting Signature, Ratification, and Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) (2013)

This guide highlights actions health professionals can take to make the Arms Trade Treaty effective.

An assessment of antenatal care among Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Matthew Benage; et al. (2015) CC

Conflict and Health 2015, 9:8 doi:10.1186/s13031-015-0035-8

No Escape from Hell

Human Rights Watch (2019) C2

EU Policies Contribute to Abuse of Migrants in Libya This report documents severe overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, malnutrition, and lack of adequate health care. Human Rights Watch found violent abuse by guards in four official detention centers in western Libya, including beatings and whippin ... more

Dengue: Turning up the volume on a silent disaster

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2014) C1

Over the past 50 years, dengue has spread from nine to over a hundred countries, making it the most rapidly spreading vector-borne disease. Yet, dengue continues to have a low profile among policy-makers and donors and does not receive the media attention it deserves. While there is no vaccine or cu ... more

Guidance on Housing

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Tsunami Global Lessons Learned Project (2015)

Disaster Recovery Toolkit

Guide to developing disaster recovery frameworks

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery; World Bank; et al. (2015)

Setting up a national disaster preparedness and response mechanism: Guidelines for National Societies

IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross Red Cresent Societies (2010)

Technical guidance on laboratory operations for coronavirus disease (COVID-19 ) testing in the WHO African region
recommended

World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office for Africa (2020) C_WHO

Guidance about Communication to Combat COVID-19

Communication for Devleopment4 Network (2020) CC

The guide seeks to address questions about how we can face local communication challenges presented by the pandemic, and how communicators respond effectively to the situation through supporting our communities to cope and to protect themselves. This guide aims to provide insights for a wide range o ... more

Periods in a Pandemic Menstrual hygiene management in the time of COVID-19

Plan International (2020) CC

This report looks at how the current implications of COVID-19 is exacerbating key challenges for people who menstruate around the world and provides recommendations on how to include menstrual hygiene management (MHM) within a COVID-19 response.

Ebola Outbreak to Recovery: Sierra Leone Progress Report October 2015

World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

Water under fire

UNICEF UNICEF (2019)

UNICEF trucks water to the camps where people displaced by the conflict have temporarily settled. UNICEF also installed latrines, showers and water storage tanks in the camps and distributed family hygiene kits to protect children against waterborne diseases.

Liberia: National Malaria Strategic Plan 2010–2015

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Liberia (2010) C1

Questions and Answers on Ebola

Centers of Disease Control CDC (2014)

Please read online the lastest updated versions http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/qa.html

NRCS WATSAN Policy

Nepal Red Cross Society (2009) C1