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UNDP Call for Proposals: Operating Women Protection Center (WPC) in Afghanistan
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Operating Women Protection Center (WPC) in Afghanistan.
Women Protection Center are safe shelters for survivors of violence and their children that provide vital essential services. The services provided in the WPCs include 24/7 free safe shelter, legal aid, healthcare, education (basic literacy and numeracy), vocational training (catering services, handicraft classes, computer, and English classes), psychosocial services, family counselling, support for reintegration into a safe living situation in their families or in the community, and referral to other services.
A women’s empowerment approach includes the following:
Ensure that women participate in decision making and are meaningfully and regularly engaged in the management of the centre, particularly for WPCs
New WHO-KSRelief partnership to support delivery of essential health services in Yemen
WHO and KSRelief started the implementation of a new project; aiming at supporting the delivery of essential health services in Yemen.
Funded at $20.5mn, the project is part of a broader $46mn agreement between the two organizations, signed in September 2020, that also included three other projects, respectively on COVID-19 preparedness and response, nutrition, water and environmental sanitation services.
Under this new award, the Health Cluster will receive support for information management, the functionality of the emergency operation centers and operational costs of the cluster coordination offices, benefiting to up to 5.1mn people.
Bangladesh: Disruptions and Adaptations: The Effects of COVID-19 on Contraceptive Services across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus 16 December, 2020 - 19:01
Countries: Bangladesh, Mozambique, Nigeria Source: Women s Refugee Commission
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Introduction
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Two weeks later, on March 25, the United Nations (UN) launched the Global Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19, issuing a $2.01 billon appeal to combat COVID-19 in the world’s most vulnerable countries. At the time the response plan and appeal were released, COVID-19 was already wreaking havoc in the world’s wealthiest countries, and poised to devastate countries facing fragility and crises, and exacerbate already critical humanitarian needs on a global scale.
Disruptions and Adaptations: The Effects of COVID-19 on Contraceptive Services across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus
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Introduction
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Two weeks later, on March 25, the United Nations (UN) launched the Global Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19, issuing a $2.01 billon appeal to combat COVID-19 in the world’s most vulnerable countries. At the time the response plan and appeal were released, COVID-19 was already wreaking havoc in the world’s wealthiest countries, and poised to devastate countries facing fragility and crises, and exacerbate already critical humanitarian needs on a global scale.
Contraception is lifesaving, and is a priority health service in emergencies as detailed in the 2018 Minimum Initial Services Package (MISP) for sexual and reproductive health (SRH). It should be made available at the outset of every emergency response, including epidemics and pandemics. Facing