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Time To Act Stopping Violence, Safeguarding Health Care

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2017) C1

Doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and first-aiders are coming under attack while trying to save lives. They are threatened, arrested or beaten, their hospitals looted or bombed. Some are unable to work because medical supplies can’t get through; some are forced to flee for their lives. Some are e... more

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Building Agreement on Restitution Rights with the Myanmar Peace Process and National Legal FrameworkK. Manual for Practioners

Norwegian Refugee Council, Displacement Solutions, Joint Peace Fund (2019) C1

This manual outlines proposals for the insertion of housing, land and property restitution rights simultaneously within the context of the ongoing peace process and within broader national legal reform efforts, including work towards a national land law. The paper begins by emphasising that many cou... more

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Evaluation of Protection in Humanitarian Action

Christoplos, I. and Dillon, N. with Bonino, F. ALNAP (2018) CC

This companion to the ALNAP EHA Guide offers protection-specific insights for evaluators and evaluation commissioners across the humanitarian sector. It covers the planning, data management and analysis phases of evaluation and addresses a range of challenges that – whilst not all unique to protec... more

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Ethiopia Country Refugee Response Plan: The integrated response plan for refugees from Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia (January 2019 - December 2020)

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2019) C1

he refugee flow to Ethiopia continued during 2018, with 36,1351 persons seeking safety and protection within the country’s borders. At the start of 2019, the nation hosted 905,8312 thousand refugees who were forced to flee their homes as a result of insecurity, political instability, military cons... more

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Myanmar 2019 Humanitarian needs overview
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Humanitarian Country Team in Myanmar UN (2019) CC

Over 244,000 displaced people remain in camps or camp-like situations in Kachin, Shan, Rakhine and Kayin states. Children make up at least 50 per cent of this population, while women and„Myanmar: 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview - Myanmar“. ReliefWeb. Zugegriffen 4. Januar 2019. https://reliefw... more

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Reducing Protracted Internal Displacement: A Snapshot of Successful Humanitarian-Development Initiatives

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2019) C1

This paper aims to contribute to the reflection on effective practices to address protracted displacement, in support of the GP20 Plan of Action roll-out. It expands on the research conducted by Walter Kälin and Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat for the 2017 OCHA-commissioned study Breaking the Impasse: Re... more

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UNFPA Response in Yemen. Monthly situation report Issue 05: May

UNFPA UNPFA (2019)

Levels of humanitarian need continue to stagger in Yemen. Fighting sporadically escalated in different parts of the country leading to spikes in displacement and civilian casualties. As of May some 36,506 families have been displaced across Yemen since the beginning of the year. Hajjah is one of the... more

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“Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go” Trafficking of Kachin “Brides” from Myanmar to China

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Human Rights Watch (2019) C1

Seng Moon’s story is typical of the 37 trafficking survivors interviewed for this report. The most unusual part of her story is that she escaped with her child; many other survivors were forced to leave children behind. All the survivors we interviewed were trafficked from, and managed to retur... more

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A Matter of Life and Death: Tackling Violence against Health Care in Pakistan, Peru and El Salvador

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2017) C1

Every day, health-care providers are being attacked, patients discriminated against, ambulances held up at checkpoints, hospitals bombed, medical supplies looted and entire communities cut off from critical services around the world.
Between January 2012 and December 2014, the ICRC documented n... more

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Family planning saves lives and promotes resilience in humanitarian contexts

CARE, International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, Women's Refugee Commission (2017) C1

Globally, it is estimated that 128.6 million people are currently in need of humanitarian assistance. Of these individuals, approximately one-fourth are women and girls of reproductive age. Although family planning is one of the most life-saving, empowering, and cost-effective interventions for wome... more

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Every child alive: The urgent need to end newborn deaths

UNICEF (2018)

Globally, in low-income countries, the average newborn mortality rate is 27 deaths per 1,000 births, the report says. In high-income countries, that rate is 3 deaths per 1,000. Newborns from the riskiest places to give birth are up to 50 times more likely to die than those from the safest places.... more

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Myanmar Country Strategic Plan (2018–2022)

World Food Programme (WFP) (2017) C1

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is at a historic moment, with a new civilian government assuming power in 2016. The country graduated to lower-middle-income status in 2015, and has made significant progress in reducing poverty, improving food security and addressing malnutrition.
The remai... more

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Ukraine: Emergency Response Plan for the Covid-19 Pandemic

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA (2020) C2

The following Emergency Response Plan for the COVID-19 pandemic seeks to set out activities that will be undertaken by humanitarian actors in Ukraine over the course of 2020 to respond to the public health impact of the epidemic – as well as the indirect, socio-economic impact on people’s well-b... more

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Discrimination and Barriers Facing Women and Girls with Disabilities in Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch (2020) C2

Afghanistan has one of the largest populations per capita of persons with disabilities in the world. At least one in five Afghan households includes an adult or child with a serious physical, sensory, intellectual, or psychosocial disability. More than 40 years of war have left more than one million... more

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Safe Back to School: A Practitioner’s Guide

Save the Children; Education Cluster; Protection Cluster et al. (2020) C2

The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of disruption to education, impacting over 90% of the world’s student population: 1.54 billion children, including 743 million girls. School closures and the wider socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on communities and society also disrup... more

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Afghanistan Humanitarian Response Plan 2018-2021 (June 2020 Revision)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2020) CC

The arrival of COVID-19 in Afghanistan has brought heartache to millions of people who are now battling a deadly pandemic while simultaneously fighting for their survival amid poverty, disaster and war. Over my three years as Humanitarian Coordinator, I have marvelled at the resilience of the people... more

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Lost at home - The risks and challenges for internally displaced children and the urgent actions needed to protect them

UNICEF (2020) CC

Today, more children than ever before are displaced within their own countries. Their harrowing stories of displacement are unfolding every day, and with increasing frequency. At the end of 2019, approximately 45.7 million people were internally displaced by conflict and violence (Fig. 1.1). Nearly ... more

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Hand hygiene for all

UNICEF, WHO (2020) C_WHO

Three billion people – 40 per cent of the world’s population – do not have a place in their homes to wash their hands with water and soap. Three quarters of those who lack access to water and soap live in the world’s poorest countries and are amongst the most vulnerable: children and familie... more

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COVID-19 and political stability in Ethiopia

Yusuf S. Institute for security Studies (2020) C1

This policy brief examines the implications of COVID-19 and the government’s preventative measure for political stability,9 especially in the short to medium term. It argues that in the short term the disease and the preventative measures could make the country less vulnerable to organised politic... more

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Ethiopia Country Refugee Response Plan - The integrated response plan for refugees from Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia 2020

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) C1

Refugee protection in the country is provided within the framework of these international and national refugee laws as well as the core international human rights treaties that have been ratified by the country. Continued insecurity within neighbouring states has resulted in sustained refugee moveme... more

Myanmar 2019 Humanitarian needs overview recommended

Myanmar 2019 Humanitarian needs overview
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