MAP has been involved in a relief intervention for the past two years. Currently, MAP is working alongside the Government of Uganda, Gulu and Amuru Districts and the Anglican Church of Uganda Northern Diocese to support the improvement of access and quality in the delivery of basic health services in the target health facilities in seven camps in Gulu and Amuru. Two camps are run by the government and the other five are sponsored by the Anglican Church.

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Right now, MAP is helping provide essential medicines, training health promoters, and working to prevent disease and stop suffering in more than 110 countries, many devastated by war, disease and natural disasters. In many of these countries, MAP International is the only provider of essential medicines and lifesaving healthcare to thousands upon thousands of people who are struggling to survive.

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Since April 2003, more than 234,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have fled to eastern more...

Resolution 1325 (2000)
adopted by the Security Council at its 4213th meeting, on
31 October 2000.

This document builds on: (a) lessons learned; (b) the outline of a strategy presented to the Executive Board at its second regular session 2005 (DP/FPA/2005/18); (c) an analysis of programme country needs, United Nations system initiatives and United Nations reform; and (d) UNFPA roles, experience and commitments. UNFPA identified the goals and activities through stakeholder consultations, through the recommendations of external evaluations of existing UNFPA capacity and systems, and through a more...

Since its establishment in 1974, the Inter-University Committee on International Migration has been a focal point for migration and refugee studies at member institutions, which include Boston University, Brandeis University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University, and Wellesley College. The committee is chaired by MIT as a program of the Center for International Studies (CIS).

This report outlines a training workshop for women's NGOs from conflict and postconflict situations. The workshop was organized by UNFPA and conducted in Tunisia, 6-10 November 2006. UNFPA organized this workshop on capacity-building to improve understanding of conflicts and the importance of involving women in reconstruction, in the context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), United Nations Security Council resolution 1325, and the UNFPA fo more...

"This report summarizes the views on assisting displaced women in conflict and post-conflict situations presented at the UNFPA Expert Meeting and Workshop on Displaced Women, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, 21-24 June 2007. The first goal of the meeting was to bridge the gap between knowledge and policies regarding women's protection needs -- or gender-specific protection issues -- relating to displacement and migration in conflict and emergency settings, as well in post-conflict resettlement. The se more...

The Commitment to Development Index (CDI), produced annually by the Center for Global Development, ranks 21 high-income industrialized countries on how well their policies and actions support poor countries’ efforts to build prosperity, good government, and security. The CDI assigns points in seven policy areas: aid (both quantity as a share of income and quality), trade, investment, migration, environment, security, and technology. Within each component, a country receives points for policies more...

Full-title: Guidelines on Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings: Focusing on Prevention of and Response to Sexual Violence in Emergencies.

The primary purpose of these guidelines is to enable communities, governments and humanitarian organizations, including UN agencies, NGOs, and CBOs, to establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral interventions to prevent and respond to sexual violence during the early phase of an emergency. Twenty-five action sheets have more...

"Most African countries are challenged by a double crisis of fragile health systems and weak human resources, the latter being an essential component of effective service delivery. Although Africa has only 1.3% of the world's health workforce, it carries 25% of the world’s disease burden. The workforce density is 0.8 per 1000 population, compared to a world average of 4.2. The health worker shortage is further exacerbated by inequitable spatial distribution of health workers thus resulting in more...