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Twinning partnerships for improvement (TPI)

World Health Organization WHO (2016) C_WHO

Recovery partnership preparation package: Building capacity to reactivate safe essential health services and sustain health service resilience. In the aftermath of an emergency, the recovery partnership preparation package supports the establishment and implementation of institutional health partne... more

A call to action: Protecting children on the move starts with better data

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, International Organization for Migration, UN Children's Fund, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (2018) CC

Gaps in data covering refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and internally displaced populations are endangering the lives and wellbeing of millions of children on the move, warned five UN and partner agencies today. In 'A call to action: Protecting children on the move starts with better data', UNICEF... more

Making Schools Inclusive. How change can happen

Pinnock H; Lewis I Save the Children (2008) C1

Making education more inclusive requires schools and education authorities to remove the barriers to education experienced by the most excluded children - often the poorest, children with disabilities, children without family care, girls, or children from minority .... Also included in the text are examples of children from very remote areas, girls excluded from school, children from ethnic groups, children with language barriers, and children in countries affected by conflict. more

Improving the quality of care for mothers and newborns in health facilities: facilitator's manual. Version 02.

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2017) C_WHO

WHO-SEARO in partnership with WHOCC AIIMS, UNICEF, UNFPA and USAID has prepared a training package for building capacity of healthcare teams in health facilities for continous quality improvement of maternal and newborn healthcare. The focus is on t... more

Improving the quality of care for mothers and newborns in health facilities: learner's manual. Version 02.

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia WHOCC AIIMS, UNICEF, UNFPA and USAID (2017) C_WHO

A training package for building capacity of healthcare teams in health facilities for continous quality improvement of maternal and newborn healthcare. The focus is on the care of mothers and newborns at the time of child birth since a large proport... more

Girls on the move

World Vision (2018) C1

A publication about girls escaping natural disasters and violent conflict in Eastern Africa
Children are on the move. In East Africa region, it is estimated that over 5 million children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced in their own country.
Forcable displacement is p... more

WHO Nutrient Profile Model for South-East Asia Region

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2017) C_WHO

To implement the set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children
With the growing obesity crisis among children, WHO and other public health advocates and consumer groups have called for restrictions on ... more

A practice guide to effective population-based food policy actions to promote healthy diets

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2017) C_WHO

This publication provides directions for a logical, evidence informed approach to selecting, developing, implementing and monitoring population-based interventions within the context of the double-burden of malnutrition in South-East Asia. The focus... more

Pathways to progress: a multi-level approach to strengthening health systems

Samuels, F., Amaya, A.B., Rodríguez Pose, R. and Balabanova, D. Overseas Development Institute (2014) C1

Findings on maternal and child health in Nepal, Mozambique and Rwanda, and neglected tropical diseases in Cambodia and Sierra Leone | This report synthesises findings from five country case studies from the health dimension of this project, which focus... more

Positive health, dignity and prevention for women and their babies. Facilitator’s manual

Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) (2018) C1

A treatment literacy guide for pregnant women and mothers living with HIV
Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention for Women and their Babies is intended for use by networks of women living with HIV, women’s groups, peer educators and o... more

How can health equity be improved in Myanmar?

Phone Myint; Than Tun Sein; Cassels, Andrew World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) C_WHO

Policy Note #2: Myanmar Health Systems in Transition Policy Notes Series
Myanmar is a country in which people’s access to health services is determined more by where they live than their need for care – a situation that is fundamentally inequitable. The challenge is to reduce levels of ineq... more

Integrated Water Resources Management in Myanmar: Water usage and introduction to water quality criteria for lakes and rivers in Myanmar. Preliminary report

Mjelde, Marit; Ballot, Andreas; Swe, Thida; Eriksen, Tor Erik; Nesheim, Ingrid; Aung, Toe Toe Norsk institutt for vannforskning (NIVA) (2017) C1

The purpose of the report is to present some first recommendation for the development of Myanmar ecological quality criteria using the system of the EU Water Framework Directive (EU WFD) as baseline, with main focus on the characterization and class... more

Myanmar Living Conditions Survey 2017: Key Indicators Report

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Planning and Finance, Central Statistical Organization et al. (2018) C1

The survey is representative of the Union Territory, its states and regions and urban and rural areas. It was conducted in all the districts and in 296 of the 330 townships of Myanmar. A total of 13,730 households were interviewed. It collects data on the occupations of people, how much income they ... more

Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Malaria in Somalia

Federal Government of Somalia, Puntland & Somaliland, Zonal NMCPsMoH (2016) C1

The main objective of the malaria prevention and control programme in Somalia is to prevent mortality and reduce morbidity due to malaria. The groups most vulnerable to the disease, children aged under 5 years and pregnant women, are especially targ... more

Collective Voices: Qualitative Case Study Report

Three Millennium Development Goal Fund (3MDG) (2018) C1

Civil Society Organisations’ contribution towards community engagement to access and demand health services and encourage communities to practice appropriate health-seeking behaviour in Mon and Chin States. The study recognizes that civil society can promote people-centered health by creating an e... more

State of Health in the WHO African Region
recommended

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office African Region (2018) C_WHO

This report is not a country scorecard. Rather, its purpose is to act as a compass to guide progress towards health in the SDGs. There has been a significant improvement in the state of health in the region with healthy life expectancy - time spent in full health - in the region increasing from 50... more

Facilitating inclusion in disaster preparedness: A practical guide for CBOs

International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Give2Asia (2018) C1

In disaster preparedness, the participation of women, children, older people, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and other minority groups and sectors is important because they are the most vulnerable against disasters. Inclusive disaster preparednes... more

The Sphere Handbook. Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response. New Edition
recommended

Sphere (2018) C1

Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response. The 2018 Sphere Handbook builds on the latest developments and learning in the humanitarian sector. Among the improvements of the new edition, readers will find a stronger focus o... more

Baseline assessment of community based TB services in 8 WHO ENGAGE-TB priority countries

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

This document contains a series of desk reviews for the eight ENGAGE-TB priority countries supported by the Global Fund (DRC, Kenya, Indonesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan and Tanzania). The document provides a situation assessment and gap analysis about the state of community based TB ac... more

Understanding human rights WHO QualityRights training to act, unite and empower for mental health (P I L O T V E R S I O N)

World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

This document has been developed to provide training and guidance to be able to understand what are human rights, what human rights mean for people’s lives, as well as the actions that can be taken by individuals and groups to respect and promote ... more