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Gender Equality in and through Education- INEE Pocket Guide to Gender
INEE Pocket Guide to Gender distils essential gender equality programming principles and provides concrete strategies for putting gender equality into practice. It is intended for anyone working to provide, manage or support education services as part of
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Barriers to Accessing Primary Education in Conflict-Affected Fragile States. Final Report
Current educational policy and practice are failing the 77 million out-of-school children globally, 41 million of whom live in conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS). This research seeks to identify the factors affecting access to primary education for c
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At a crossroads: Humanitarianism for the next decade
Earthquakes. Floods. War. Disasters and emergencies are rarely out of the headlines. But the world system for responding to disasters and emergencies is being challenged as never before. Huge environmental and political changes are threatening agencies’ a
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Helping Haiti's Children: The first three months of Save the Children's earthquake response
The devastating January 2001 earthquake — a 7-magnitude shock that left more than 3 million people in Port-au-Prince, Léogâne, Petit Goave, Jacmel and surrounding areas in desperate need — has exacted a heavy toll on Haiti’s children. They have lost famil
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Guidelines for addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings
These Guidelines for Addressing HIV in Humanitarian Settings aim to assist humanitarian and AIDS organizations to plan the delivery of a minimum set of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to people affected by humanitarian crises. These g
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HAITI: “Expediting” intercountry adoptions in the aftermath of a natural disaster … preventing future harm
Haiti has been a 'popular' country of origin, meaning that thousands of children were at some stage of the adoption process – albeit simply "identified" as potentially adoptable – when the earthquake struck. There were diverse and contrasting responses by
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ARC- Módulo de Fundamentos 5: Incidencia
ARC- Módulo de Fundamentos 5: Incidencia Este módulo proporciona información práctica, lineamientos, ejemplos y herramientas para apoyar a las organizaciones y actores claves en su misión de llevar a cabo tareas de incidencia, con el fin de alcanzar un ca
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ARC- Module contenant un sujet fondamental 6: Mobilisation communautaire
ARC- Module contenant un sujet fondamental 6: Mobilisation communautaire Nous avons rédigé ce module sur la mobilisation communautaire pour qu'il serve de ressource au personnel humanitaire et aux personnes qui travaillent dans l'urgence et dont l'engagem
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Children and Climate Change. Policy Brief
Every year, around 250,000 children die before their fifth birthday as a result of climate change. Changing weather patterns are increasing malnutrition and the spread of disease, and making natural disasters more frequent and intense. Climate change is a
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The Impact of the Food and Financial Crises on Child Mortality: The case of Sub-Saharan Africa
The years 2000-2007 witnessed an average decline in under 5 mortality rates (U5MR) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faster than that recorded during the prior two decades, including in countries with high HIV prevalence rates due to the spread of preventative
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Preventing Gender-based Violence: Building Livelihoods. Guidance and Tools for Improved Programming
Conflict and displacement destroy livelihoods and force people to adopt new strategies to support themselves. New livelihood strategies can increase the risk of gender-based violence (GBV). Women often have no safety net; they usually flee with few resour
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"The dust has not yet settled". Victims’ Views on the Right to Remedy and Reparation.
This Report, jointly commissioned by the Uganda Human Rights Commission and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, is based on field research carried out in the Greater North of Uganda between 2007 and 2011.This report outlines the views