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Useful Resources
Where the poor are?: An atlas of poverty
Global Distribution of Poverty
This document brings together a diverse collection of maps from different continents and countries, depicting small area estimates of vital development indicators, including health indicators such as infant mortality rate, at unprecedented levels of spatial detail. The atlas of 21 full-page poverty maps reveals possible causal patterns and provides practical examples of how the data and tools have been used, and may be used, in applied decisions and poverty interventions.
Working with OHCHR: A handbook for NGOs
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
The Handbook aims to provide NGOs with a comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the work of OHCHR, including key information on human rights mechanisms, entry points for NGOs and contact details with a view to assisting NGOs in identifying areas of possible cooperation and partnership with OHCHR; it also anticipates the changes of the current United Nations reform process. The Handbook is up to date as of June 2006, and is currently available in electronic format and in the English language only. Efforts are underway to secure its translation in other UN languages in the next few months.
Protecting children from sexual exploitation and sexual violence in disaster and emergency situations
Delaney S: Eldis, 5 July 2006
This practical manual outlines how to protect children from sexual violence and sexual exploitation, specifically in disaster and emergency situations. The aim is to provide fundamental information to assist personnel working in emergency situations in responding to protect children: before disaster strikes; in the immediate aftermath; and in the longer term reconstruction phase. The report also includes recommended actions and key considerations to be taken into account in the event of sexual violence or sexual exploitation.
The world's youth 2006 data sheet
Ashford L, Clifton D, Kaneda T: Eldis, 5 July 2006
This statistical chart covers the most important issues in the lives of adolescents including gender disparities, child labour, health, and education. Conclusions include the gap between boys' and girls' school enrollments having narrowed in the last decade as girls' enrollments have risen throughout the developing world. But girls still face disadvantages in parts of South Asia, western Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Surveys in developing countries reveal that less than half of young people can correctly identify two ways to avoid getting HIV/AIDS and reject common myths about the virus. Young women generally have less knowledge than young men.
AIDS vaccine clearing house
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition
The AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) has launched the AIDS Vaccine Clearinghouse, a comprehensive and interactive source of AIDS vaccine information on the internet. The website provides a gateway to information and a link to people and organizations interested in AIDS vaccine advocacy, research and global delivery.
Guide to using the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to support health systems strengthening in round 6
Physicians for Human Rights, May 2006
Physicians for Human Rights has complete a Guide to Using the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to Support Health System Strengthening in Round 6. Round 6 has great potential for advancing health system strengthening efforts in many countries, and we strongly encourage applicants to take advantage of this potential. It is especially useful for those involved in preparing Global Fund proposals, or who have the capacity to influence (or interest in influencing) these proposals.
Human Resources for Health (HRH) tool Compendium
HRH Global Resource Center
This Compendium is to help you find HR tools appropriate for your work. The tools and resource documents included in the Compendium have been reviewed by two or more people with HR expertise and have selected based on usefulness and easy availability. Most of the tools are available free electronically.
Gender and trade cutting edge pack
BRIDGE
A pack by Bridge, a division of IDS, aims to support trade specialists in bringing a gender perspective into their work, and to help gender specialists to understand the broad implications of trade policy and practice. Some of the main questions this pack seeks to address are, in what ways can trade advance or impede gender equality? What practical ways can policy-makers and practitioners promote gender equality in work on trade?
New key issues guide on Market Development Approaches
Eldis Health Systems Reporter, 18 May 2006
This new key issues guide, from the Health Systems Resource Guide, is a tool for donors, governments and implementers to learn about MDAs for reproductive health and begin thinking of options and issues to encourage, design, implement, manage and evaluate MDAs. Content includes MDA tools, examples of MDAs and country case studies.