Our figures represent the combined picture of crisis response programmes in a total of n=128 municipalities.
UN Women's humanitarian response in Sierra Leone is part of the Women's Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection in Crisis Response (LEAP) programme, which builds on UN Women's experience from 35 countries across the world.
The empowerment strategy in the Pragati programme includes a crisis response team, a microfinance system, a de-addiction programme, condom use promotion, STI prevention and detection (with the use of syndromic case management, or SCM), and the provision of rest places (to douche, relax, and meet peers).
The different activities through which the programme goals are implemented include access to drop-in centres with attached health clinics, referrals to clinics for STI and ART treatment, self-help groups for saving and credit activities, a de-addiction programme, and a crisis response mechanism for women who encounter violent behaviour.
Country programmes are central Beyond reviewing recent crisis response efforts, Executive Board members this week will look into country programme documents from nations throughout Eastern and Southern Africa, West and Central Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, as well as Nepal, and will examine a multi-country programme for the Pacific Islands.
CORDS has designed an Intensified Preparedness Programme that offers short-term crisis response and longer term capacity building, consisting of training, advice, and background material for infectious disease management for affected and not-yet affected countries.
With an increasing number of refugees fleeing to the Beqaa Valley villages since the start of the crisis in Syria, UNICEF has accelerated its education-in-emergency response programme.
The activities of the Pragati programme range from social and economic empowerment tools like crisis response teams (which try to diminish the amount of violence and harassment that FSWs face) to financial support by microfinance systems and health-related components such as de-addiction programmes, condom use promotion, and STI prevention and treatment strategies.
Crisis response under way UN agencies on the ground, including UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP), are well coordinated to help the government respond to the crisis.
UNICEF started an emergency response programme in Water and Sanitation (WES) in Gaza in mid-2006 following the July crisis; later, capacity building, which included hygiene awareness in schools and at the community level, was added to WES.
