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Sector(s): Education, Other, Protection
Location: All
Channel Type: Thematic
Keywords: IEC materials, risk reduction, guidance, resilience
Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials need to reflect lessons learnt and good practice for future response. They use information and communications technology to support, enhance, and optimise the delivery of information. This Channel will expand to include IEC materials regarding many possible types of disasters.
Location: All
Channel Type: Thematic
Keywords: safe entry, USAR, natural disaster, Earthquake, debris management
Emergency Response channel collates information on how to manage the outcome and face emergencies and hazards which follows. The channel provides information for aid workers across the humanitarian sector, and for everyone who will be responding to the emergency.
This channel contains collections including analysis, reports, best practices, guidelines, toolboxes and policy guidance concerning provision of education during humanitarian crises. After disaster strikes, education is often put on hold due to the shortage of facilities and resources. Therefore, this Channel seeks to help educators to continue teaching the community despite the change in their surroundings. These resources were published by leading organizations such as European Commission, Global Education Cluster, Handicap International, International Network for Education in Emergencies, International Rescue Committee, Save The Children Fund, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Gender
Location: All Countries
Channel Type: Operation
Keywords: gender, protection cluster, female genital mutilation, child marriage
This channel contains three collections including analysis, reports, best practices, guidelines, notes, toolboxes and policy guidance on how to best deal with the issue of Gender Based Violence and what legislations exists that can be used as a basis for tackling the issue. This collection further highlights the many dimensions of the issue and the importance of working with local actors.
Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Environment
Location: All Countries
Channel Type: Thematic
Keywords: Haiti, Earthquake, natural disaster, Accountability to Affected People
This Channel contains multiple collections linking recommendations and operational guidelines and strategies on community engagement in natural disaster response. This is in support of the recent earthquake that occurred in Haiti. The collections are: Climate Sensitive Design After Natural Disasters; Confined Masonry; Debris Management; Natural Disaster Evacuation Planning; Understanding Community Resilience After Conflict and Disaster. Current guidance comes from leading local and global organizations and institutions: Catholic Relief Services (CRS), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), WaterAid, World Economic Forum, World Housing Encyclopedia. Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Accountability to Affected People, Gender, Gender Based Violence
Location: Afghanistan |Syria and others, All Countries, Bosnia, Columbia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Uganda, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Jordan
Channel Type: Thematic
This channel contains a number of collections linking relevant case studies, reports, policies, research, and good practices relative to gender and humanitarian action. Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Early Recovery
Location: Lebanon
Channel Type: Operation
Keywords: crisis management, Debris & Waste, emergencies, Beirut, Disaster Recovery
This Channel contains three collections linking recommendations and operational guidelines and strategies in crisis management in honour of the 1 year anniversary of the devastating blast that occurred in Beirut, Lebanon.
The three collections are:
Supporting and managing volunteers during emergencies;
Supporting children's education during emergencies; and
Building waste and debris management.
Current guidance comes from leading local and global organisations and institutions: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, World Health Organization (WHO), European Commission, Save The Children Fund, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Early Recovery, Accountability to Affected People, Age, Gender, Health, Mental Health / Psycho Social Support, Protection, Child Protection, Gender Based Violence, Shelter and Settlement, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Location: All
Channel Type:
Keywords: Covid-19, TiP, Sexual Exploitation, Human trafficking and smuggling, Forced Labour, Identification of victims, Solidarity, Child victims, Refugees and migrants, IDPs, child protection, Online learning, online safety, School staff support, Parents and caregivers support, Children's Rights, mental health, Caregiver, Quarantine, Isolation, household, Child Abuse, Violence, Alternative Care, street children, enfants de rue, soins alternatifs, exploitation des enfants, protection infantile, confinement, isolement, droits des enfants, soignant, santé mentale, protección infantil, derechos del niño, salud mental, cuidador, cuarentena, aislamiento, hogar, Abuso Infantil, Violencia, Cuidado Alternativo, niños de la calle, Health, WASH, sanitation, handwashing, epidemics, pandemics, coronavirus disease
This channel contains a number of collections linking relevant case studies, reports, policies, research, and good practices relative to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Camp Coordination / Management, Early Recovery, Accountability to Affected People, Environment, Food Security, Gender, Health, Logistics, Mental Health / Psycho Social Support, Nutrition, Protection, Shelter and Settlement, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Location: All
Channel Type:
Keywords: environment, Environmental Sustainability, environmental health, Oceans, plastic, Human Health, Accountability, pollution, Food security; Sustainability, WASH, water, sanitation, hygiene, debris management, disaster management, climate change, Forest management, Degradation, deforestation, refugees, Returness, Woodfuel, fuel, energy, Camp Coordination and Camp management (CCCM), Health, logistics, Debris & Waste, accessible WASH, protracted crisis, building resilience, environment and shelter, post disaster, security, gender, mainstreaming, policy, Projects, Trainings, Armed Conflict, resilience
This channel contains a number of collections linking relevant case studies, reports, policies, research, and good practices relative to the environment and humanitarian action. Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Environment
Location: All Countries
Channel Type:
Keywords: guidelines, case studies, Reports, tsunami, Earthquake / Tsunami
This channel contains two collections including guidelines, reports, and case studies relevant to tsunami disasters. This channel wants to promote the World Tsunami Awareness Day 2020 (Thursday, 5th of November 2020). Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Mental Health / Psycho Social Support
Location: All Countries
Channel Type:
Keywords: health and safety, psycho-social support, mental health
This channel contains a number of collections linking relevant case studies, reports, policies, research, and good practices relative to the context of Mental health and psychological support. Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Early Recovery
Location: All Countries
Channel Type: Training
Keywords: self-recovery, early recovery, building shelter, policy, good practices
This channel contains a number of collections linking relevant case studies, reports, policies, research, and good practices relative to the context of a self-recovery (previously termed self help) in response to disasters. Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Sector(s): Shelter and Settlement
Location: All Contries
Channel Type: Operation
Keywords: Storm, constructions shelter, building safety
This channel contains a number of collections regrouping relevant case studies, reports, strategies and good practices relative to the context of a post-storm disaster response. Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Location: All Countries
Channel Type: Thematic
This channel contains collections of guidelines, technical documents, good practice and presentations on adapting and strengthening child protection activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Resources are in English, French and Spanish.
Please send suggestions for additional content for this Channel to info@humanitarianlibrary.org, or create your own Collection on the Library!
Below this channel, you will find an other channel that may interest you on child protection or pandemic response.
Location: All Countries
Channel Type: Thematic
Keywords: Racism, Discrimination, xenophobia, refugees, Migrants, protection, Caste-Based Discrimination
The "Responding to Racism, Discrimination and Xenophobia" channel collects guidelines, trainings, evaluations and best practices for the prevention of and response to racism, discrimination and xenophobia in humanitarian work. The channel is structured in the following way: 1) Migrants and Refugees: Responding to Racism, Discrimination and Xenophobia, 2) Humanitarian Principles: Responding to Racism, Discrimination and Xenophobia, and 3) Responding to Caste-Based Discrimination.
It is a humanitarian channel highlighting the role and intervention of Qatar Charity in helping people in several countries around the world
Sector(s): Education, Environment, Food Security, Gender, Health, Mental Health / Psycho Social Support, Nutrition, Protection, Child Protection, Gender Based Violence, Shelter and Settlement, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Location: All Countries
Channel Type: Training
Keywords: education, free, Online courses, training, programs, IHL, protection, WASH, CCCM, food security, nutrition, Staff Care, monitoring, evaluation, Leadership, Management, shelter, settlement, security, SDG
The Humanitarian Library has a new channel containing free e-learning courses and trainings in humanitarian contexts. It consists of 11 user-friendly collections, covering various humanitarian domains, including: Protection and IHL, CCCM, WASH, Food Security and Nutrition, Safety & Security and Staff Care, Humanitarian Essentials, Management & Leadership, Monitoring & Evaluation and various online training courses for humanitarian practitioners. They are published by e-learning platfroms offered by ICRC, IFRC, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNITAR and UNDSS.
Sector(s): Age
Location: All Countries
Channel Type: Thematic
Keywords: elderly, Age, Ageing, Older people, protection, WASH, Health, nutrition, Mental, Social, Sociopsychological, Displacement, shelter
The Humanitarian Library has proudly published a Channel entitled Elderly in Humanitarian Emergencies. This includes guidelines which shed light on the invisibility of seniors in humanitarian settings. This channel complies five distinctive collections; (1) Protection and the Elderly, (2) WASH and the Elderly, (3) Health, Food and Nutrition for the Elderly and Disabilities, (4) Mental and Sociopsychological Needs for the Elderly and (5) Displacement, Shelter and the Elderly.
Location: Global - Multiple countries
Channel Type: Organisation
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is committed to spread knowledge and good practices to contribute in capacity building through sharing lessons learned, case studies and guides developed from experiences in the humanitarian field.
This channel is focused on Shelter and Settlements and Disaster Risk Reduction in Emergency Response and Recovery Phases.
The "Green Initiatives in the Humanitarian Space" Channel gives guidelines and tools that will think of and manage green initiatives while in humanitarian action. This Channel is organised as follows:
1) Bamboo and Environmental Protection;
2) Bamboo in the African Region;
3) Camp Management Toolkit: Environmental Protection;
4) Climate Change Resistant Infrastructure;
5) Environmental Protection and Climate Change in Humanitarian Action
6) Environmental Sustainability: CCCM Collection
7) Environmental Sustainability: WASH Collection
8) Greening your Refugee Camp.