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Child mental health in Sierra Leone: a survey and exploratory qualitative study

H.N.C. Yoder, W..Tol, R. Reis and J.T.V.M. deJong (2016) CC

This study complements the growing amount of research on the psychosocial impact of war on chil-dren in Sierra Leone by examining local perceptions of child mental health, formal and informal care systems, help-seeking behaviour and stigma Yoder et al. Int J Ment Health Syst (2016) 10:48 DOI 10.11 ... more

Healing personal trauma to restore communities

Catholic Relief Services CRS (2016) C1

Integrating trauma healing for partner staff into recovery programming. This assessment shares testimonies from CRS and partner staff who participated in a trauma healing program in Central Africa Republic. CRS's trauma-healing methodology uses small groups—of all genders, ages and faiths—focu ... more

COVID-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC; World Health Organization (WHO); UNICEF; et al. (2020) C1

Women, the elderly, adolescents, youth, and children, persons with disabilities, indigenous populations, refugees, migrants, and minorities experience the highest degree of socio-economic marginalization. Marginalized people become even more vulnerable in emergencies.1 This is due to factors su ... more

Considerations for implementing and adjusting public health and social measures in the context of COVID-19
recommended

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

interim guidance, 14 June 2021 This document is intended for national authorities and decision makers in countries that have introduced large scale public health and social measures. It offers guidance for adjusting public health and social measures, while managing the risk of a resurgence of cases ... more

Situation Analysis of Children and Women in Kenya, 2017

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2017) C1

The report provides the much-needed evidence to design interventions for children in Kenya and as such we urge partners to use this report as a document for planning for children.

The conflict in Ukraine and its impact on organized crime and security - November 2022

UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute UNICRI Reliefweb OCHA Services (2022) C2

This report assesses the impact of the conflict in Ukraine and its implications for organized crime and security-related issues for neighbouring countries, with a focus on Moldova. These include: Organized crime and illicit trafficking (including trafficking in persons, drugs, arms, illicit toba ... more

Access to NCD medicines: emergent issues during the COVID-19 pandemic and key structural factors
recommended

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic exacerbated pre-existing inequalities in the treatment and care of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This report examines the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to NCD medicines, and the policies and strategies implemented by countries and health sys ... more

Financing Global Health 2015: Development assistance steady on the path to new Global Goals

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (2016) CC

Financing Global Health 2015 is the seventh edition of IHME’s annual series on global health financing. This report captures trends in development assistance for health (DAH) and government health expenditure as source (GHE-S) in low- and middle-income countries. Annually updated GHE-S and DAH est ... more

Quantification of Health Commodities: RMNCH Supplement - Forecasting Consumption of Select Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Commodities

JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., and Management Sciences for Health (2016) C1

Submitted to the US Agency for International Development by the Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program. Arlington, VA: Management Sciences for Health. Submitted to the United Nations Children’s Fund by JSI, Arlington, VA: JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. ... more

Istanbul Protocol

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) United Nations (2004) CC

Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Shadow Report - On the situation of women who use drugs, women living with HIV, sex workers, and lesbian, bisexual women and transgender people in Ukraine

Legalife-Ukraine; Insight; Positive Women; Svitanok; echo.net (2017) C2

Prepared by NGOs: “Legalife-Ukraine”, “Insight”, “Positive Women”, and “Svitanok” For the submission to the 66th CEDAW Session Geneva, Switzerland 13 February 2017 - 03 March 2017

EASO Special Report: Asylum Trends and COVID-19, Issue 2 (11 June 2020)

European Asylum Support Office (2020) CC

Only 8,730 asylum applications were registered in the EU+ in April, the lowest since at least 2008, and a massive 87% decrease from pre-COVID-19 levels in January and February. The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has released a special report which shows that the COVID-19 related travel restr ... more

The HIV response in conflict: Lessons learnt from South Sudan

Geofrey Odongkara, Cecilia Kihara, Jane Johnson, Hester Phillips International HIVAIDS Alliance; POZ (2014)

Case Study

Global Climate Risk Index 2021

Eckstein, D.; V. Künzel and L.Schäfer Germanwatch e.V. (2015) C2

Who suffers Most from Extreme Weather Events? Weather-related Loss Events in 2019 and 2000 to 2019 The Global Climate Risk Index 2021 analyses and ranks to what extent countries and regions have been affected by impacts of climate related extreme weather events (storms, floods, heatwaves etc.). The ... more

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine

European Union; International Organization for Migration; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2022) C2

Joint EUAA, IOM and OECD report provides new insights on displacement from and within Ukraine The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have published a Joint Report on profil ... more

Disaster risk management systems analysis: A guide book

Baas, Stephan; Ramasamy, Selvaraju; Dey de Pryck, Jenny et al. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2008) C1

The guide book provides a set of tools and methods to assess existing structures and capacities of national, district and local institutions with responsibilities for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in order to improve their effectiveness and the integration of DRM concerns into development planning, ... more

Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into paediatrics: a WHO guide for health-care planners, implementers and managers

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

People younger than 20 years comprise 35% of the global population and 40% of the global population of least-developed nations. The number of children - neonates, infants, children, and adolescents up to 19 years of age - who need pediatric palliative care (PPC) each year may be as high as 21 millio ... more

EU compass for action on mental health and well being

Helen Killaspy, Peter McPherson, Chiara Samele, Rene Keet, JM Caldas de Almeida European Union (2018) CC

Providing community-based mental health services position paper

Global commitments, local action

UNAIDS (2021) C_WHO

3 June 2021. After 40 years of AIDS, charting a course to end the pandemic. The report shows that countries with progressive laws and policies and strong and inclusive health systems have had the best outcomes against HIV. In those countries, people living with and affected by HIV are more likely t ... more

Standards for Disaster Risk Reduction

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) (2015) C1

Стандарты для сокращения риска бедствий