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How we respond both now and going forward will help mitigate the impact of COVID-19, and to the extent possible preserve children’s rights to Survive, Learn, and Be Protected. We will focus our efforts on the most critical work essential to maintaining these commitments to the extent possible.

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Guidance on Home Quarantine & Isolation in Overcrowded Settings

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2020) C1

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on how quarantine and isolation can be achieved if there is a suspected or confirmed case in an overcrowded setting. It will focus on informal settlements and collective shelters, but the guidance can be applied in non-refugee settings as well, suc... more

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Syrian Arab Republic - Overview of humanitarian response from within Syria

OCHA (2020) C1

January - December 2019 First published April 2020 • Between January to December 2019, an estimated 8.58 million people were reached at least once with some form of humanitarian assistance, including over 91,000 people through three inter-agency convoys, two to Rukban and one to Menbij. On ... more

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Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19

United Nations UN (2020) C2

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COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan

OCHA; Reliefweb; World Vision OCHA; Reliefweb; World Vision (2020) C2

April 3, 2020

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UNHCR Operational Update - Yemen

OCHA; Reliefweb; The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) OCHA; Reliefweb; The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) (2020) C2

3 April 2020

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Guidelines for Quarantine facilities COVID-19

National Centre for Disease Control (formerly National Institute of Communicable Diseases) National Centre for Disease Control (formerly National Institute of Communicable Diseases) (2020) C2

The purpose of this document is to provide interim guidance for setting up of quarantine facilities Accessed: 16.04.2020

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Getting started with: Hotline in a Box

Hotline in a Box (2020) C2

Accessed on 21.05.2020 Considering a hotline? This set of tools will help you assess, set up and manage different types of channels to communicate with communities during humanitarian crises.

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Malawi Emergency Appeal (May - October 2020)

OCHA; UN RC Malawi; UNCT Malawi (2020) C2

Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic on 11 March 2020, and Malawi declared its first case on 2 April. As of 30 April, there were 36 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 and 3 deaths. A State of Disaster was declared by President Arthur Peter Mutharika on 20 March and a 21... more

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Child Protection Case Management Guidance During Covid-19

Unicef; Save the Children (2020) C_UNICEF

This guidance note aims to ensure continuity of case management service provision as well as appropriate response to cases associated with the disease during the COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar. Outlined below are priority areas that Child Protection Case Management agencies should focus on

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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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Enhancing access to services for migrants in the context of COVID-19 preparedness, prevention, and response and beyond

Working Group on Access to Services of the UN Network on Migration, et al. (2020) CC

The United Nations Network on Migration is committed to supporting all partners in pursuit of the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, recognizing that this cooperative framework provides an invaluable tool for ensuring inclusive, collective responses to COVI... more

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Statement on herbal remedies and medicines for prevention and treatment of COVID-19

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) C1

This statement aims to provide guidance and recommendation to African Union Member States in responding to the following questions: What should countries do when announcing identification of a herbal remedy or medicine? What are the implications for the rest of the continent?

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The impact of the COVID-19 response on the supply chain, availability and cost of generic antiretroviral medicines for HIV in low- and middle-income countries

UNAIDS (2020) C_WHO

The objective of this report is to assess the situational landscape during mid-May 2020 surrounding the value chain of the production and distribution of generic antiretroviral medicines in low- and-middle-income countries and to provide recommendations on mitigating the risks of potential disruptio... more