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Pakistan Floods in images (2.2Mb)
Some telling images that capture the horror and pain of the catastrophe unravelling in Pakistan
UNHCR SitRep Pakistan Floods #7 Aug 16 (506.8Kb)
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.- Pakistan Humanitarian Challenges (25 August 2010) (2.7Mb)
1 page overview of the humanitarian challenges as of the 25th August 2010 - INEE Pocket Guide to Inclusive Education (397.6Kb)
Provides practical strategies to ensure the education system is safe, accessible and effective for all vulnerable groups including ethnic minorities. - INEE Pocket Guide to Gender (1.3Mb)
Distils essential gender equality programming principles, and provides concrete strategies for putting gender equality into practice. - INEE Minimum Standards 2010 (1.7Mb)
Good practices and concrete guidance to governments and humanitarian workers for coordinated action to enhance the quality of educational preparedness and response - INEE Guidance Notes on Teaching and Learning (1.3Mb)
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 - INEE Reference Guide to External Financing (2Mb)
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. 
Meeting 16 August Child Protection - Pakistan floods (18.4Kb)
Notes from 16 August teleconference meeting on Child protection in the Pakistan Floods- SitRep 18 August 2010 Pakistan (506.8Kb)
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.
• The Pakistan Government has authorised WFP to deploy United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) assets to the country.
• 32% of the requirements in the Pakistan Initial Floods Emergency Response Plan (PIFERP) have now been covered.
Please note that if you wish to be added or deleted from OCHA\'s Global Situation Report List, please send you request to this address: ochareporting@un.org
New York HQ: For additional information/queries at HQ, please do not hesitate to contact the OCHA Pakistan Desk Officer, Mr. Ben Negus at:
Cell: +1-347-237-7840
Tel: +1-917-367-4374
Email: negus@un.org
- Child Protection during floods in Bangladesh (3.3Mb)
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 way. The objective of the review study is also to appraise experiences of Save the Children’s
disaster response efforts in meeting children needs. We also planned to identify options of improving scope of emergency response plans in meeting the needs of children in emergencies through consulting them and their caregivers.
- Pakistan 2010 floods health needs (1.6Mb)
Briefing on the Health Aspects of the Pakistan Initial Flood Emergency Response Plan 13 August 2010. - IFRC Community-based PSS-Trainers book (5.5Mb)
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 psychosocial
context contains reflections on adult
learning processes and points out issues
that are specific for learning and supporting
learning in a psychosocial context.
• Preparing for a workshop in psychosocial
support gives advice on how to
prepare in advance, how to work with
an interpreter and what practicalities to
consider.
• Conducting the workshop provides
the trainer with tips about how to give a
workshop a good start, how to manage
different teaching methods (e.g. presentations,
discussion with participants) and
how to recap and evaluate on completion
of the training.
• Trainer’s book and PowerPoint presentations
are the concrete teaching aids developed
for each training module, which provide the trainer with learning objectives,
suggestions for discussion topics and
activities, as well as PowerPoint slides and
speaker’s points to guide presentations.
Handouts to be used during training sessions
can be found after each module.
- IFRC Community-based PSS-Participants Book (4.6Mb)
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 smaller number may need help in dealing
with ongoing symptoms of distress.
Guidelines from the Sphere Project and,
more recently, from the Inter-Agency Standing
Committee (IASC) on Mental Health and
Psychosocial Support inform the work of
the Red Cross Red Crescent and are central
to this book. Annex A gives links to websites
and an overview of these key guidelines for
psychosocial support.
- Hexayurts - shelter construction (2.7Mb)
Not entirely Psycho-social, but seems a great idea. And if anyone is in Pakistan working with basic housing issues, or knows anyone who is, then this may be useful. - Guiding principles seperated children (59Kb)
The following note is a summary of the Inter-agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children. - Pakistan floods 2007 (260Kb)
The Pakistan floods of 2007 devastated large swathes of rural Sindh and Balochistan Provinces in southern Pakistan, destroying homes, crops and roads, and causing the temporary displacement of over 2.5 million people. The Government of Pakistan (GoP), through its newly created agency the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), and with the help of the Army, launched a major relief operation, and the UN, with other members of the international humanitarian community and local NGOs,mobilised resources to help.
The decision was taken by the IASC Country Team (IASC CT) to launch a full scale humanitarian response. An application was made to the Central Emergency Response Fund(CERF). Clusters were set up and started work, a joint rapid assessment was carried out with NDMA, and a Flash Appeal was announced and promoted.
- Flood Disasters (ALNAP 2008) (155.4Kb)
This paper provides a synthesis of & an introduction to key lessons from evaluations of relief & recovery/humanitarian response to flooding in the last 20 years from Africa, Asia & the Americas
