Resources

Guide | English | 2020

Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement

This document provides globally established guidance on the contribution of community engagement in development practice as well as humanitarian action. The objective of the standards is to support implementation of high quality, evidence-based community engagement at scale in development and humanitarian contexts.

Tool | English, French | 2020

Community Health Planning and Costing Tool (Version 2.0) Handbook

This tool, and accompanying handbook, is designed to cost community health programs and packages of services.  Guidance is provided on how to use results to help assess performance, plan future services, and prepare investment cases for resource mobilization.

Guide | English | 2020

Integrating Stakeholder and Community Engagement in quality of care initiatives for maternal, newborn and child health

This resource provides operational guidance for policy makers and program implementers on how stakeholder and community engagement can be incorporated into quality improvement initiatives for maternal, newborn, and child health, including conducting stakeholder and community mapping and analysis, establishing governance structure, and developing communication and advocacy strategies.

Journal Article | English | 2020

Proactive community case management in Senegal 2014–2016

This article in the Malaria Journal presents a case study in maximizing the impact of community case management of malaria through the proactive CCM approach in Senegal.

Recommended Citation: Gaye, S., Kibler, J., Ndiaye, J.L. et al. Proactive community case management in Senegal 2014–2016: a case study in maximizing the impact of community case management of malaria. Malar J 19, 166 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03238-0

Journal Article | English | 2020

Implementing integrated community case management during conflict in Yemen

The conflict in Yemen has devastated the health system, with only 51% of health facilities classified as fully functional and 19.7 million people lacking access to health care. To address the urgent need for primary health care services in rural communities, Save the Children launched an iCCM program in Lahj and Taiz Governorates. A qualitative study was conducted to document the challenges to iCCM service delivery and to aid in developing strategies for overcoming service delivery bottlenecks in conflict-affected rural areas.

Report | English | 2020

Policy Brief: Community Health Workers in Humanitarian Settings

To better understand the barriers and enabling factors for community-based service delivery through CHWs, UNICEF, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee have collaborated to conduct a number of studies to document experiences with CHW services in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries. Retrospective case studies were carried out in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone (Ebola outbreak); South Sudan (conflict); Bangladesh (flooding); and Yemen (conflict).

Journal Article | English | 2020

Community case management of chest indrawing pneumonia in children aged 2 to 59 months by community health workers: study protocol for a multi-country cluster randomized open label non-inferiority trial

This paper presents the protocol used in a study to determine and compare treatment failure rates of enhanced iCCM compared with standard iCCM in children aged 2-59 months of age with chest indrawing pneumonia without general danger signs and/or hypoxaemia.

Guide | English | 2020

Guidance for COVID-19 prevention and control in schools

UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies published Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Schools, with a series of supplemental content with practical guidance across domains ranging from implementation to the development of child friendly materials. These resources are also available in French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Guide | English | 2020

Considerations for School-Related Public Health Measures in the Context of COVID-19

WHO, UNICEF and UNESCO have issued updated advice for policymakers and educators on running schools as safe as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at risk-based approaches for school operations, based on the level and intensity of transmission rates at lower schooling levels; age-appropriate considerations for measures such as physical distancing and masks in schools; and other measures to mitigate against COVID-19 in schools.

Report | English | 2020

World Bank Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER)

The Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER), launched by the World Bank in 2011, is an initiative to produce comparative data and knowledge on education policies and institutions, with the aim of helping countries systematically strengthen their education systems and the ultimate goal of promoting Learning for All. 

Guide | English | 2020

WHO/UNESCO Health Promoting Schools

Building from WHO's Global School Health Initiative, launched in 1995, WHO and UNESCO developed global standards and indicators as well as implementation guidance for assessing health promoting schools: environments that constantly strengthen their capacities as healthy settings for living, learning and working.

Report | English | 2020

Human Capital Investments: The Case for Education and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

This USAID white paper, published in 2020, considers opportunities to reach school-age children and adolescents in Africa given the young demographic profile of the region. 

Tool | English | 2020

Joint WFP and UNICEF Multisectoral Checklist for School Reopening and School based Nutrition in the context of COVID-19

The World Food Programme and UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Offices jointly published a non-exhaustive list of recommended multi-sectoral actions to consider as part of the short and longer-term planning for and implementation of school reopening and school-based nutrition in the context of COVID-19.

Journal Article | English | 2020

Preventive malaria treatment among school-aged children in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analyses

Journal article published in the Lancet on December 1, 2020.

Report | English | 2020

The Hidden Impact of COVID-19 on Children and Families with Disabilities

This report is informed by Save the Children's global research series to generate rigorous evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic and measures implemented to mitigate it are impacting children’s health, nutrition, learning, wellbeing, protection, family finances and poverty. The results and recommendations shared in this resource focus on the various impacts of COVID-19 on children and parents/caregivers with disabilities and their families.

Report | English | 2020

Children with disabilities: Ensuring their inclusion in COVID-19 response strategies and evidence generation

This report developed by UNICEF highlights the unique impact of COVID-19 on children with disabilities and provides guidance on how to assess the impact of the pandemic on these children. Actionable steps to protect them involve the deliberate inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in every stage of the COVID-19 response. Also accessible on the UNICEF website.

Report | English | 2020

A Case for Local Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Africa in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

This paper discusses the issue of scaling up the local pharmaceutical production in Africa as an opportunity, as well as a necessity, to tackle local epidemics of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, as well as non-communicable diseases whose control could be undermined by the scale of the COVID-19 outbreak. Also available on the Pamela Steele Associates Ltd website.

Guide | English | Niger | 2020

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Preparedness and Response Plan

The COVID-19 preparedness and response plan, created by the Ministry of Health in Niger. Also available on WHO Regional Office for Africa website. 

Guide | English | Mali | 2020

INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL (IPC) FOR THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)

The national infection prevention and control (PCI) plan for COVID-19 in Mali. Also available on ministry of health website. 

Guide | English | Liberia | 2020

Interim Guidance On Clinical Care For Patients With Covid-19 In Liberia

Clinical guidance for care of patients with COVID-19 in Liberia, developed by the Ministry of Health and National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL). Also accessible on the Ministry of Health website.