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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

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Addressing childhood trauma in a developmental context

Gregorowski, C. & Seedat, S. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2013) CC

Traditionally, understanding of the psychiatric and psychological effects of trauma have been developed from studies with adults and then applied to trauma-exposed children with some modifications. While this is an important step to understanding the sequelae of trauma in children and adolescents, t... more

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Community-Based Mental Health: A Training Guide for Community Providers

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IFRC (2023) CC

Mental health problems are common and cause great suffering to individuals and communities around the world. They have a significant impact not only on the physical and mental health of those affected but also on their families and the communities they live in. At the same time, all communities have... more

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Mentally Challenged Children in Africa: Victims of Sexual Abuse

Jabulani G. Kheswa Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences MCSER Publishing, Rome-Italy (2014) CC

Vol 5 No 27 | ISSN 2039-2117 (online) | ISSN 2039-9340 (print) | The rate of sexual victimization of mentally retarded children is alarming and it goes unnoticed because the perpetrators could be parents, step- parents, relatives, well-respected individuals by family members, neighbours and educator... more

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An end to violence against children

UN Children's Fund UNICEF United Nations and Partners (2012)

The full range and scale of all forms of violence against children are only now becoming visible, as is the evidence of the harm it does. This book documents the outcomes and recommendations of the process of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Children. ‘The Study�... more

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Textbooks for Sustainable Development - A guide to embedding

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (UNESCO MGIEP) (2017)

This valuable and timely guidebook represents an innovative contribution to enhancing quality education through textbooks. It will change the way textbook authors, publishers and educators, as well as governments of the United Nations Member States, see the poten... more

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Best practice guidelines for mental health promotion programs: Refugees

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH); Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Toronto Public Health (2012) C1

This resource is the third in a series of online guides for promoting positive mental health across the lifespan. This resource provides health and social service providers (“practitioners”) with current evidence-based approaches in the application of mental health promotion concepts and princip... more

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International Standards of Drug Use Prevention

World Health Organization (WHO); United Nations Office on Drug and Crime UNODC (2019) C_WHO

2nd revised edition. Accessed Apri. 17, 2019 Prevention strategies based on scientific evidence working with families, schools, and communities can ensure that children and youth, especially the most marginalized and poor, grow and stay healthy and safe into adulthood and old age. For every dollar ... more

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Involving Persons Living with HIV Networks in National HIV Policy Dialogue A Case Study of MANET+ in Malawi

M. L. Mattingly; A. G. Yemaneberhan; S. Feller; et al. USAID; PEPFAR; AIDS Free (Strenghtening High Impact Interventions for a AIDS-free Generation); JSI Research & Training Institute; et al. (2016) C2

AIDSFree Case study series This publication is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A-14-00046... more

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Prevention of drug use in schools

Ranaweera, S.; and D. Samarashinghe World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2022) C_WHO

Schools are generally the most popular setting for drug-use- prevention programmes, and are used both by governmental and non-governmental agencies. This may be for many reasons: ease of obtaining funding for school drug-use-prevention programmes, the captive audience, and the popular perception... more

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Five-Year Strategic Plan for Young People's Health (2016-2020)

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Health and Sports (2017) C1

The National Strategic Plan is based on the following guiding principles:
1) Life-course approach: adolescence is a key decade in the course of life that inﬂuences the health outcomes later in life.
2) Comprehensive approach: It recognizes the cross cutting health and development needs o... more

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Key actions for National Societies on caring for volunteers in COVID-19

IFRC (2020) C1

Volunteers are impacted by COVID-19 like everyone else worldwide. They worry about being stigmatized by family and community members, fear contracting the virus, having to be in isolation or quarantine, losing colleagues etc. Volunteers may also be affected by witnessing the death of someone they su... more

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Creating a Healing Environment - Volume II: Technical Papers

John Frederick International Labour Organization IPEC & Trafficking in Children-South Asia (TICSA) (2002) C1

Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and Occupational Integration of Child Survivors of Trafficking and Other Worst Forms of Child Labour |

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Not all that bleeds is Ebola
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International Rescue Committee (2020) C1

How has the DRC Ebola outbreak impacted Sexual and Reproductive Health in North-Kivu? Recommendations (more specifics found in the assessment): 1. Sexual and reproductive health needs and services are to be embedded in the EVD response from the outset. 2. Reduce delays at every stage of the patie... more

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WHO European framework for action on mental health 2021-2025: draft for the Seventy-first Regional Committee for Europe

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

The framework sets out a response to current mental health challenges arising from the negative impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on population mental health and well-being. The EFAMH provides a coherent basis for intensified efforts to mainstream, promote and safeguard mental well-being as ... more

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Playbook for Physical Distancing

FinalMile (2020) CC

This is a real time documentation of strategies and solutions impacting behavioral outcomes critical to pandemic response that can immediately be used by a variety of stakeholders. This particular playbook addresses behavioral challenges with respect to physical (not social) distancing.

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Children’s Consent Framework

USAID; Children & AIDS; PEPFAR; Health Policy Plus (2019) C2

Policy and practice for maturity-aligned engagement of children in decisions about HIV-related medical and social services and management of confidential information Kipling Beardsley, Health Policy Plus Accessed: 26.10.2019

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Not all that bleeds is Ebola
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