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Safety First: Time to deliver on commitments to women and girls in crisis
International Rescue Committee (IRC)This report highlights links between gender-based violence (GBV) and key sustainable development goals to show where GBV prevention and response needs to be integrated across sectors to address the double disadvantage faced by women and girls in crisis.
Gender Analysis: Prevention and response measures to Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Nidhi KapurGender analysis conducted on behalf of CARE International in DRC, looking at the gendered dimensions of the Ebola epidemic including those related to prevention and response efforts.
Aid Agencies Scale Up Assistance for Venezuelans in Colombia as Regional Migration Crisis Deepens
Mercy CorpsFour leading aid organizations are scaling up operations to assist Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia as the number of Venezuelans displaced in the region passes 4.8 million.
Progress Report: Strengthening the health system through the integration of MISP into basic midwifery training in three provinces of DRC namely; Kasai, Central Kasai and Oriental Kasai
UNFPA, IAWG Training Partnership InitiativeHelena Nordenstedt and Hans Rosling published a Comment in The Lancet, titled Chasing 60% of maternal deaths in the post-fact era, that points out an inaccurate and widely used statistic on maternal mortality in humanitarian settings.
Not All That Bleeds is Ebola – how the DRC outbreak impacts reproductive health
International Rescue Committee (IRC)To document the impacts of the 2018 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak on sexual and reproductive health services, the IRC undertook an with the aim of developing concrete recommendations for improving service provision and access during outbreaks.
UNFPA wants to reduce the risk to healthcare providers providing obstetric and gynecological care during the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This initiative comes as a response to growing evidence that reproductive health services and maternity wards frequently manipulate several types of biological fluid throughout the chain of reproductive and maternal health care; ranging from gynecological consultations to the management of wastes after child birth.
Displaced by community violence, living in dire conditions in Ituri province
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)Approximately 200,000 people have spontaneously gathered and settled in sites where they lack essential needs. Humanitarian agencies need to urgently step up and scale up assistance to people.