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Sharing this collection of short articles from MIT: Sloan to put on your reading list. Some really interesting reflections on ethics and trust in use of collaborative technologies in the workplace - the risks they pose and ideas on how to address them. Some articles found particularly interesting...

People tend to forget or suspend the use of protective measures such as contraceptives. The activities here should be included among the principal points to consider in preparing emergency response measures. Emergencies modify people's patterns of priorities and response; given a different set of...

The 2018 Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings (IAFM) is the result of a collaborative and consultative process engaging hundreds of representatives from United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations that make up the Inter-Agency Working Group on...

WHO has launched recommendations on the use of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health. Home-based records have been widely implemented for decades and they are currently in use in at least 163 countries. However, they vary greatly in their design and content across countries and...

4 October 2017 – As part of its response to the global epidemic of obesity, WHO is releasing guidelines to support primary healthcare workers identify and help children who are overweight or obese. In 2016 an estimated 41 million children under 5 were affected by overweight or obesity. Without...

In many countries and regions of the world, young people (ages 10-24) experience early marriage followed directly by pressure to bear children, making young married women (YMW) a cohort with particularly high fertility rates, high unmet need for contraception, and high rates of closely spaced...

This toolkit provides a variety of resources that form a platform for strengthening policy makers, program managers and service providers' capacity to promote access to maternal, newborn and child heath care. Developed by the Peace Corps, the toolkit includes information on: pregnancy and birth...

This guide aims to: better define focus areas of response for direct humanitarian programming and advocacy in acute phase of an emergency build consistency around a discrete 'package' of effective MNCH and nutrition services delivered in an acute phase of a disaster provide a clear rationale for...