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My Hero is You: Storybook for children on COVID-19
This is a storybook for children on COVID-19. It was developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. The project was supported by global, regional and country-based experts,
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Interim Technical Note: Protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) during COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health, social and economic crisis. With restrictions on travel ad movement, civil society and humanitarian organizations play a critical role in supporting authorities to respond. All people should remain safe fro
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Adjusting Food Distribution Standard Operating Procedures in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak Ver 2
These interim recommendations for school and food distribution are useful for COVID-19 response, when looking at phase 3 of a large scale response, working with social service systems and child protection actors to ensure continuity of critical services t
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Interim Guidance: Scaling-up COVID-19 outbreak readiness and response operations in humanitarian situations including camps and camp-like settings
People affected by conflict or crisis, and particularly those who live in camps or camp-like settings, are often faced with specific vulnerabilities and challenges. For example, they are often neglected, stigmatized and may face difficulties in accessing
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Interim Guidance: Gender alert for COVID-19 outbreak
Gender norms and pre-existing inequalities disproportionately impact women and girls during emergencies, including pandemics. Gender, together with other factors such as age, sexual orientation and gender identity, ethnicity, disability, education, employ
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IASC Interim Guidance on COVID-19: Focus on persons deprived of their liberty
Children deprived of their liberty face many vulnerabilities as the spread of COVID-19 can expand rapidly due to usually high concentration of persons and restricted access to hygiene and health care in some contexts. In detention centres and similar cont
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Interim Guidance: Localisation and the COVID-19 response
As the COVID-19 pandemic has led to restrictions on travel and movement, local actors are crucial in the response to the disease. Localization is therefore both a necessity and an opportunity for effectively meeting humanitarian needs and recovery efforts
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From Words to Action: Promoting gender equality and transformative action through the Grand Bargain
This brief presents the key points from a global consultation organized by UN Women and the Grand Bargain Friends of Gender Group. The goal of the consultation was to enable dialogue among the Grand Bargain Facilitation Group, Workstream co-conveners, sig
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A Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings: Field test version
This document provides guidance in the assessment, research, design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programmes in emergency settings. Although designed specifically for emergency contexts (in
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Best Practice Guide: Inter-agency community-based complaint mechanisms
Sexual exploitation and abuse by humanitarian workers and other actors engaged in assisting vulnerable populations directly contradicts the principles upon which humanitarian action is based. Despite the contradiction to the core values, this abuse of aut
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Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action: Reducing risk, promoting resilience and aiding recovery
The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist humanitarian actors and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and
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Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP): Draft for field testing
The IASC Task Team on Preparedness and Resilience has developed the ‘Emergency Response Preparedness’ (ERP) approach to enable the international humanitarian system to apply a proactive approach to emergency preparedness. The ERP guidance builds on the im