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Mental health, human rights and standards of care
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World Health Organization WHO; Regional Office for Europe (2018) C_WHO

Assessment of the quality of institutional care for adults with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in the WHO European Region. The specific objectives of the project were to address gaps in knowledge about the number and characteristics of such long-term institutions and to identify deficie... more

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Children ACERWC (1990) CC

Adopted by the Twenty-sixth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - July 1990

Leadership in humanitarian action: Handbook for the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC (2021) C1

The Handbook is a guide to the normative framework for humanitarian action and the operational approaches, coordination structures, and available tools and services that facilitate the mobilization of huma... assistance. more

Malaria Control in Humanitarian Emergencies. An Inter-Agency Field Handbook
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Jose Nkuni, Natasha Howard, Abraham Mnzava et al. World Health Organization (2013) C_WHO

2nd edition. The interagency field handbook on malaria control was developed to set out effective malaria control responses in humanitarian emergencies, particularly during the acute phase when reliance on international ... assistance is greatest. This second edition represents a thorough updating and revision of the first edition. The structure remains similar, but includes an additional chapter on humanitarian coordination. All chapters have been revised to reflect changes in best practices, improvements in technologies, availability of new tools, and changes in WHO recommendations. more

Guidance Note on Using the Cluster Approach to Strengthen Humanitarian Response

Inter-Agency Standing Committee IASC (2006) C1

The cluster approach is a mechanism that helps to address identified gaps in response and enhance the quality of humanitarian action

Humanitarian Supply Management And Logistics In The Health Sector
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Pan American Health Organization (2001)

Current recommendations for treatment of tetanus during humanitarian emergencies

World Health Organization (2010)

Outbreak surveillance and response in humanitarian emergencies

World Health Organization (2012)

Guidelines for Implementing Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises

Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluations in Humanitarian Crises (IHE) Initiative UNHCR (2007)

Consolidated Humanitarian Health Guidelines

ECHO EU (2014)

These Guidelines comprise a General Guidelines document that provides the basic parameters of DG ECHO humanitarian health assistance, complemented by specific Technical Guidance in annex.

Evaluation of Oxfam’s South Sudan Humanitarian Response Using Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Indicator Tool

Featherstone, A. Oxfam (2012) CC

As part of a wider organisational undertaking to better capture and communicate the effectiveness of its work, Oxfam developed an evaluative method to assess the quality of targeted humanitarian responses. This method uses a global ... indicator tool which is intended to enable Oxfam GB to estimate how many disaster-affected men and women globally have received humanitarian aid that meets establishes standards for excellence. This method was used after the independence of South Sudan, which was followed by political tensions with its neighbour on issues unresolved from the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which include border demarcation, wealth-sharing and the fate of the disputed territory of Abyei. more

Humanitarian Implementation Plan (HIP) Côte d’ivoire (ECHO/CIV/BUD/2014/91000) Last update: 03/12/2014 Version 3

European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (2014)

Security to go: a risk management toolkit for humanitarian aid agencies
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Davis, J.; and L. Reilly European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2015) C1

Global issue of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights

UN Human Rights Council (2016) CC

Progress report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (A/HRC/33/53) (Advance edited version)

Duty of Care: Protection of Humanitarian Aid Workers from Sexual Violence

Report the Abuse (2017) C1

Joint Kathmandu Declaration 2016 Adopted by the National Human Rights Summit of Persons with Disabilities

NFD-N (National federation of the disabled- Nepal) Government of Nepal (2016) C1

Bangladesh: Humanitarian Response Plan - September 2017 / February 2018 - Rohingya Refugee Crisis

International Organization for Migration, Inter Sector Coordination Group (2017) C1

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Humanitarian SitRep - Situation Report

UNICEF (2017)

Yemen: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis Enters Another Year

Andrea Carboni Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset (2018) C1

Four years after the Houthi takeover of the capital Sana’a and the beginning of the Saudi-led military intervention, there is little to suggest that Yemen will find peace in the near future. As of January 2018, the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions, causing wid... more

Disability Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sida (2015) C2

This brief gives an overview of disability rights in the Sub-Saharan region, with focus on Sida partner countries; DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe