CONCERN WORLDWIDE PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES
Child Survival
Assessing Reach of Health for the Urban Poor, Subir Saha, MSC, PhD Candidate and Michelle Kouletio, MPH, Concern Worldwide Health Advisor
Baseline Survey of the Rwanda Community Distribution of Anti-Malarials Pilot Program, Concern Worldwide, International Rescue Committee, World Relief, CORE Child Survival Collaborations and Research Group, August 2004
Concern Worldwide Commitment to Clinton Global Initiative, “Urban Health for the Poor in Bangladesh & Haiti”
Concern Worldwide Rwanda Child Survival Program, Final Evaluation Report, October 2006
“Developing Urban Health Systems in Bangladesh,” by Dipankar Datta, Michelle Kouletio, and Taifur Rahman of Concern Worldwide, Participatory Learning and Action 51, April 2005
From Darkness to Light: Concern Worldwide's Child Survival Program, Laura Wiessen and Tom Evrard, Concern Worldwide
Meeting the Health Challenge, Concern Worldwide US
"Reducing Smoke, Improving Child Health," Niall Roche and Subir Kamar Saha, Concern Worldwide, Health Exchange, May 2006
Nutrition & Community-based Therapeutic Care
“The Sustainability of CTC in Non-emergency Contexts,” Valerie Gatchell (Nutrition Advisor, Concern Worldwide), World Health Organization, November 2006
[Technical background paper written by Concern Worldwide Nutrition Advisor, presented at WHO global conference in November 2005 and published in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Special Supplement NO.21, Volume 27, Number 3, September 2006]
Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC): A Field Manual, Valid International, October 2006
[Produced by the CTC Research and Development Program, a collaboration between Concern Worldwide and Valid International]
Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC), Emergency Nutrition News (ENN) Special Supplement Series, No.2, November 2004
[Material drawn from research carried out under the CTC research and development program, a collaboration between Concern Worldwide and Valid International]
Emergencies
“Humanitarian Discussion Paper: Risk Management,” Emergency Unit, Concern Worldwide, Dublin, Ireland <PDF>
“Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction,” Emergency Unit, Concern Worldwide, Dublin, Ireland
“Concern’s Approach to Emergencies,” Emergency Unit, Concern Worldwide, Dublin, Ireland
OTHER RESOURCES
Africa Up in Smoke 2: The Second Report On Africa And Global Warming from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, New Economics Foundation (nef), October 2006
Community-based Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition: A Joint Statement by the World Health Organization, the World Food Program, the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition and the United Nations Childrens Fund, United Nations, May 2007
Know Risk, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction/Tudor Rose, January 2005
[Compilation of articles by over 160 authors on their work in disaster risk reduction at international, regional, national, municipal and local levels.]
Living with Risk: A Global Review of Disaster Risk Reduction Initiatives 2004, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, July 2004
Management of Severe Malnutrition: A Manual for Physicians and other Senior Health Workers, World Health Organization, 1999
[World Health Organization guidelines for the treatment of severely malnourished children in hospitals and health centers]
UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007
UNICEF: Humanitarian Action Report 2007
UNICEF: The State of the World's Children 2007
Reuters AlertNet