Some telling images that capture the horror and pain of the catastrophe unravelling in Pakistan

UNHCR August 16 situation report (#7) for Pakistan floods. Includes overview, response and needs assessment (shelter, protection, and Afghan refugee villages), gaps & constraints, funding, and donations.

1 page overview of the humanitarian challenges as of the 25th August 2010

Provides practical strategies to ensure the education system is safe, accessible and effective for all vulnerable groups including ethnic minorities.

Distils essential gender equality programming principles, and provides concrete strategies for putting gender equality into practice.

Good practices and concrete guidance to governments and humanitarian workers for coordinated action to enhance the quality of educational preparedness and response

Offer s practical, in-depth guidance on issues of Curricula Review & Adaptation; Teacher Training, Professional Development & Support; Instruction and Learning Processes; Assessment of Learning outcomes

Provides an overview of the difference types of mechanisms for financing education in order to help governments/policy makers/civil society understand the ways in which donors provide educational assistance.

Notes from 16 August teleconference meeting on Child protection in the Pakistan Floods

Highlights:
• The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited affected areas in Punjab on 15 August, pledging the support of the United Nations and stating that “these unprecedented floods demand unprecedented assistance.”
• Floodwaters continue to swell in Sindh and Balochistan; additional needs are anticipated in both provinces.
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Keeping this in mind, with the help of a group of like minded agencies working in Bangladesh and their local counterparts, we initiated a review study to understand the children’s special and strategic needs in emergencies which will help all the relevant agencies in designing their respective emergency response policies in a more child sensitive…[Read more]

Briefing on the Health Aspects of the Pakistan Initial Flood Emergency Response Plan 13 August 2010.

The Trainer’s book includes the following:
• How to plan psychosocial support
training gives suggestions for two different
kinds of trainings (training of trainers and
basic training) and lists issues to consider
when planning the training in the context
of a given National Society or Branch Office.
• The learning process in a…[Read more]

This participant’s book prepared by
the PS Centre reflects the increasingly
active role that the Red Cross Red Crescent
devotes to psychosocial support. The way in
which individuals, families and communities
experience and respond to emergencies
varies enormously. Most people are resilient
and overcome very difficult circumstances.
A…[Read more]