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Family planning: A global handbook for providers An excellent, recently rewritten, comprehensive and very clear guide to family planning methods. Written with over 20 international collaborating agencies and dozens of individual peer reviewers, including UNFPA and IPPF. Published in 2007, by |
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Impact measurement and Accountability in Emergencies, the Good Enough Guide This guide is to assist with the basic elements of accountability and impact measurements. It is an output of the Emergency Capacity Building Project, which is inter-agency and has the aim of addressing the gaps in international emergency response. Published in 2010, by |
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Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies - Media Guide A two page flyer outlining how the media can help protect and support appropriate and safe infant and young child feeding in emergencies. Published in 2006, by |
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Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Operational Guidance for Emergency Relief Staff and Programme Managers Operational guidance intended for emergency relief staff and programme managers of all agencies working in emergency programmes, including national governments, UN agencies, NGOs and donors. It applies to emergency situations in all countries, and extends to non-emergency situations. Published in 2007, by |
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Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) are a set of international guidelines and standards for the design, implementation and assessment of livestock interventions to assist people affected by humanitarian crisis. They are based on livelihood objectives that aim to provide rapid assistance to protect and rebuild the livestock assest of... Published in 2009, by |
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Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and neonatal care: a guide for essential practice This guide provides evidence-based recommendations to guide health-care professionals in the management of women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum period, and post abortion, and newborns during their first weeks of life. It is a guide for clinical decision-making. It facilitates the collection, analysis, classification and use of relevant... Published in 2006, by |
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Rethinking food aid to fight AIDS This document reviews food aid strategies using an HIV/AIDS lens in order to reduce the risk and mitigate the impact of the pandemic. For managers planning an intervention to assist HIV/AIDS affected people Published in 2004, by |
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Safe preparation, storage and handling of powdered infant formula Powdered infant formula (PIF) has been associated with serious illness and death in infants due to infections with Enterobacter sakazakii and Salmonella enterica. These guidelines are a generic document that will provide guidance and support for countries and governments. When adapted at the country level, conditions (e.g., climatic and socioeconomic... Published in 2007, by |
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Sphere Nutrition Training Modules Nutrition training modules available on the Internet. They aim to improve the technical capacity for humanitarian response in nutrition. They are aimed at staff with some responsibility for designing or monitoring nutrition related projects and aim to ensure an understanding of the scope and content of Standards in the Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid... Published in 2011, by |
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The Millenium Development Goals Report 2010 This report shows how much progress has been made. Perhaps most important, it shows that the Goals are achievable when nationally owned development strategies, policies and programmes are supported by international development partners. At the same time, it is clear that improvements in the lives of the poor have been unacceptably slow, and some hard-won... Published in 2010, by |
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The right to adequate food This Fact Sheet explains what the right to adequate food is, illustrates its implications for specific individuals and groups, and elaborates upon State parties’ obligations with respect to this human right. The Fact Sheet also provides an overview of national, regional and international accountability and monitoring mechanisms. Published in 2010, by |
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The state of Food Insecurity in the World 2010 Following more than a decade of seemingly inexorable increases in the number of undernourished people, estimates for 2010 presented in this edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World show a glimmer of hope, with the first fall since 1995. But that still leaves nearly a billion people going hungry, and is it too early to know if this is the... Published in 2010, by |