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Publications: Emergencies


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UNFPA and Partners Charting the Way Forward

UNFPA and partners have been working in coordination and concert to address the 12 Areas of Critical Concern endorsed at the Fourth World Conference on Women. This document highlights that work and progress made.
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming

Practical Information and Training Materials

This Manual, produced through a collaboration between UNFPA and the Harvard School of Public Health, provides step-by-step guidance on how to apply a culturally sensitive, gender-responsive, human rights-based approach to programming in each of UNFPA’s three core areas of work: population and development, reproductive health, and  gender. It also covers how to apply such an approach in the context of a humanitarian emergency. An accompanying set of Training Materials are also available for download.
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Guidelines on Data Issues in Humanitarian Crisis Situations

These guidelines address key data issues related to the preparedness, acute, chronic and post-crisis phases of humanitarian emergencies. They provide an overview of the main data needs for each phase, challenges to obtaining reliable data and information, plausible approaches to data collection, management and use, and the strengths and weaknesses of the methods considered.
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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings

A Companion to the Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings

This Toolkit is intended to guide humanitarian programme managers and healthcare providers to ensure that sexual and reproductive health interventions put into place both during and after a crisis are responsive to the unique needs of adolescents. It provides user-friendly tools for assessing the impact of a crisis on adolescents, implementing an adolescent-friendly Minimum Initial Service Package, and ensuring that adolescents can participate in the development and implementation of humanitarian programmes. Other tools are specifically designed for healthcare providers to help them effectively provide and track services for adolescents at the clinic and community levels.
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Conflict Resolution, Communication Skills and Organizational Management

A Capacity-building Workshop for Iraqi Women Leaders (Istanbul, Turkey, 11-15 June 2007)

This report documents a workshop to train Iraqi women leaders in tools and procedures to enhance their effectiveness and that of their organizations. UNFPA has long recognized the distinct experience of women in conflict and post-conflict settings and has developed a strategy for gender mainstreaming in such situations. The workshop trained leaders of Iraqi NGOs in the skills to participate in rehabilitation and peace processes.
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Will You Listen? Young Voices from Conflict Zones

The voices of young people from Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Colombia, Haiti, Iraq, Liberia, Nepal, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and many other countries affected by war have been brought together in this unique report.
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Challenges and Good Practices in Support of Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

UN Security Council Resolution 1325

This report summarizes views on assisting displaced women in conflict and post-conflict situations as presented at the UNFPA Expert Meeting in Tunisia. The first goal of the meeting was to bridge the gap between knowledge and policies regarding women's protection needs -- or gender-specific protection issues. The second goal was to identify specific means for the integration of emergency-related programming into the mainstream of UNFPA work.
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Reassessing Institutional Support for Security Council Resolution 1325

Defining the UNFPA Role and Strengthening Support for Women Affected by Conflict

This report is intended to contribute to the United Nations efforts to implement the Security council resolution 1325 by reassessing the UNFPA institutional support, as well as defining and strengthening UNFPA role in implementing the resolution through global, regional and country programs examples and interventions.
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Women are the Fabric

Reproductive Health for Communities in Crisis

Women form the backbone of families and communities. When emergencies strike, their important contributions become even more vital. But in times of crisis, the particular strengths an vulnerabilities of women are often overlooked in the rush to provide humanitarian assistance. This booklet describes the ways in which UNFPA works with partners to ensure that the specific needs of women are factored into the planning of all humanitarian assistance and addresses urgent reproductive health needs that are sometimes forgotten.
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Combating Gender-Based Violence: A Key to Achieving the MDGS

This advocacy kit outlines the problem of gender-based violence, elaborates its linkages to poverty, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and conflict, and discusses its impact on a nation's development. The goal is to mobilize leadership at the national, regional and global levels to make violence unacceptable.
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