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These timely, relevant reports and lessons learned from COVID-19 and other outbreak readiness and response activities are hand-selected by READY staff and technical advisors.

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Guidance for Alternative Care Provision During COVID-19

This interagency document (introduced in a READY featured webinar…

Promoting Collaboration Between Child Protection and Health Sectors in the Context of Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Stakeholder Consultations 

READY undertook a series of stakeholder consultations to examine…

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights during Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Operational Guidance for Humanitarian and Fragile Settings

The purpose of the “Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights…

Protection in Outbreaks Resource Package

The Protection in Outbreaks (PiO) resource package is part of…

Child Protection in Outbreaks: Mini-Guides

In 2021, READY supported the Alliance for Child Protection in…

Child Protection in Infectious Disease Outbreak: Annotated Bibliography  

READY undertook a series of stakeholder consultations to examine…

Initial Food Security Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak: Survey Findings 

As part of an integrated effort to support humanitarian actors…
Nafisa* (25) was the first COVID-19 patient at Save the Children's treatment centre in Cox's Bazar. Image credit: Habiba Ummay / Save the Children

Barriers to Gender Based Violence (GBV) health services in humanitarian settings during COVID-19: A desk review from Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh), Iraq & Northern Nigeria

From the WHO's Global Health Cluster (GHC) COVID-19 Task Team:…
Save the Children health workers in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, are still providing vital services during the COVID-19 outbreak. Image credit: Catherine McGowan / Save the Children

COVID-19 Coordination Report: Consultation Findings and Case Studies 

From August to December of 2020, READY conducted consultations…

Internews: Global Rumour Bulletin

December 2020 | Internews: Global Rumour Bulletin From Internews:…
Zenebech,* mother of three, with her youngest child at an emergency food assistance gathering in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in August, 2020. (Misak Workneh / Save the Children)

Maternal, Newborn, and Reproductive Health in Emergencies (MNRHiE) and COVID-19: Adaptations, Successes, Challenge and Next Steps. An Expert Consultation 

November 2020 | Adaptations, Successes, Challenges, and Next…
4-year-olds Krishna, left, Roshni, center left and 5-year-olds Barsha, center right, and Nitesh stand outside of their early learning center on Sunday, April 29 in Saptari, Nepal.

Save the Children: Lessons Learned from Asia-Pacific

July 2020 | How the region's societies—and their children—can…
A healthcare worker at a Save the Children-supported health facility during the 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image credit: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham / Save the Children

Available Technical Guidelines Assessment Report

June 2020 | Drawing from ten years of epidemic and pandemic events,…
Jojo*, a young child who survived the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, was cared for by health workers and her mother (right), also an Ebola survivor who was allowed to stay in the unit to care for her daughter.Jojo*, a young child who survived the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, was cared for by health workers and her mother (right), also an Ebola survivor who was allowed to stay in the unit to care for her daughter.

Review of Outbreak Preparedness Training & Gaps Analysis

June 2020 | This READY initiative report presents findings and…