This document provides the Humanitarian Country Team’s shared understanding of the crisis, including the most pressing 
humanitarian needs and the estimated number of people who need assistance. It represents a consolidated evidence base and 
helps inform joint strategic response planning. 
As 
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                                        the conflict in South Sudan enters its fifth year in 2018, the humanitarian crisis has continued to intensify and expand, on a costly trajectory for the country’s people and their outlook on the future. The compounding effects of widespread violence and sustained economic decline have further diminished the capacity of people to face threats to their health, safety and livelihoods. People in need of assistance and protection number 7 million, even as more than 2 million have fled to neighbouring countries.    
                                    
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                                DHS Analytical Studies No. 55.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                This research paper uses  the Health  Resources  and  services  Availability Mapping  System (HeRAMS) database to develop two composite indices – one  for health centres and one for hospitals – in order to analyse and assess the health facilities’ performance across time and to evaluate the di
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                                        sparities among regions in the Syrian Arab Republic. The indices will provide an evidence-based tool for the main actors in the health  sector  to  identify  gaps, to  intervene  accordingly  and  to  assess  the  impact  of  their interventions on the health  system.  The process  of constructing the indices  includes description and selection of variables, application  of normalization techniques and weighting  methods,  and  sensitivity analysis. 
A  literature  review, analysis  of  the scope  of the HeRAMS database, analysis of the  crisis situation, data limitation and expert consultations were the main aspects of the construction process of the indices.
                                    
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                                Climate change (CC) impacts on health outcomes, both direct and indirect, are sufficient to jeopardize achieving the World Bank Group’s visions and agendas in poverty reduction, population resilience, and health, nutrition and population (HNP). In the last 5 years, the number of voices calling for
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                                         stronger international action on climate change and health has increased, as have the scale and depth of activities. But current global efforts in climate and health are inadequately integrated. As a result, actions to address climate change, including World Bank Group (WBG) investment and lending, are missing opportunities to simultaneously promote better health outcomes and more resilient populations and health sectors. Accordingly, with the financial support of the Nordic Development Fund (NDF), the World Bank Group set out to develop an approach and a 4-year action plan, outlined in this paper, to integrate health-related climate considerations into selected WBG sector plans and investments.
                                    
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                                Climate change is damaging human health now and is projected to have a greater impact in the future. Low- and middle-income countries are seeing the worst effects as they are most vulnerable to climate shifts and least able to adapt given weak health systems and poor infrastructure. Low-carbon appro
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                                        ach can provide effective, cheaper care while at the same time being climate smart. Low-carbon healthcare can advance institutional strategies toward low-carbon development and health-strengthening imperatives and inspire other development institutions and investors working in this space. Low-carbon healthcare provides an approach for designing, building, operating, and investing in health systems and facilities that generate minimal amounts of greenhouse gases. It puts health systems on a climate-smart development path, aligning health development and delivery with global climate goals. This approach saves money by reducing energy and resource costs. It can improve the quality of care in a diversity of settings. By prompting ministries of health to tackle climate change mitigation and foster low-carbon healthcare, the development community can help governments strengthen local capacity and support better community health.
                                    
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                                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
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                                        , UNHCR, IOM, Eurostat and OECD together show how crucial data are to understanding the patterns of global migration and developing policies to support vulnerable groups like children.
                                    
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                                This World Migration Report 2018 is the ninth in the series. Since 2000, IOM has been producing world migration reports to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly t
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                                        opical migration issues.
                                    
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                                The United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) 2018-2022 sets out the UN partnership aiming to support Nepal as it carves out its development agenda over the next five years. At the core of this new UNDAF are the SDGs, the Government of Nepal’s Fourteenth Plan, and international commi
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                                        tments and norms to which Nepal is a party. Leaping off from the lessons learned from the previous UNDAF (2013-2017), this new framework builds upon successes, incorporates emerging issues and agreements, and serves to address Nepal’s larger economic, social, and environmental objectives.
                                    
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                                Mit pauschalen Antworten auf diese richtungsweisenden Fragen ist es nur schwer möglich, einen gemeinsamen Weg zu formulieren und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe zu realisieren. Vielmehr braucht es dafür ein differenzierteres Bild unserer Gesellschaft und eine Vielfalt an Argumenten, um einen wahrhaft
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                                        igen Diskurs zu ermöglichen.
Die vorliegende Anthologie „Zwischen Kommen und Bleiben. Ein gesellschaftlicher Qürschnitt zur Flüchtlingspolitik“ liefert dazu erste Ansätze und lässt in unterschiedlichen Textbeiträgen unter anderem Geflüchtete selbst zu Wort kommen.
                                    
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                                This Situation Update describes events occurring in Bilin Township, Thaton District during the period between July and October 2017, including healthcare, education, development projects and drug issues.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Male and Female Respondents Interviewed Along the Central and the Eastern Mediterranean Routes in 2017
9,483 surveys conducted with migrants in Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in 2017
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                This study of Adolescent Boys and Young Men highlights the importance of engaging adolescent boys and young men in sexual and reproductive health and rights (srhr) and gender equality.  This paper establishes a conceptual framework for engaging adolescent boys and young men. It reviews current resea
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                                        rch on boys’ and young men’s specific risks and realities in relation to their general health status, violence, sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, media violence, sexual exploitation, and other vulnerabilities. 
                                    
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