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Addressing Gendered Impacts of COVID-19: Experiences from Pakistan

In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the gendered implications have highlighted the unequal impact of the pandemic. Lack of gender-sensitivity in the preparation for and the subsequent response has only compounded the challenges for women and children. It is therefore an obligation to adopt communication strategies, including Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) strategies, that ensure vulnerable members of rural communities are targeted, including women and children. This webinar looks at the impacts of COVID-19 on women and explores the gender and COVID-sensitive RCCE activities of two United Nations (UN) agencies in Pakistan. The Heads of agencies in Pakistan

COVID-19 & Humanitarian Settings: Exploring the Controversial Issues Webinar Series

The READY initiative , in collaboration with the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Health at University of Geneva , and the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health are pleased to announce the relaunch of its COVID-19 & Humanitarian Settings webinar series. Now occurring monthly, these webinars will feature a series of panels examining some of the controversial and under-explored issues affecting the COVID-19 pandemic in humanitarian settings. Each panel will welcome experts from across the sector and around

ICTforAg 2020

Join global leaders across the world virtually on November 18, 2020 for a 1-day conference exploring the current state and future trends in agriculture, food security, resilient populations, and technology. Sponsored by Feed the Future and implemented by DAI, ICTforAg 2020 offers an interactive virtual experience focused on technical dialogue and fostering collaboration across the digital agriculture community and the sectors we work with. Our sessions will cover: The role of digital agriculture in preparing for and responding to local and global disruption How development organizations engage with the private sector — from small startup entrepreneurs to big tech companies

UNC Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Practice

Since its founding in 2009, the goal of the Water Institute at UNC has been to inform the way the world works on water, sanitation and hygiene issues by generating the evidence that drives improvements in both practice and policy. Through this period, the Water Institute has remained steadfast in its commitment to improving public health by achieving universal access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) services that are safe, affordable and sustainable – particularly for the most marginalized. The annual UNC Water and Health Conference is intended to advance these goals by creating a space where policymakers

The Malawi Food Composition Database: Importance, Development Process, Applications, and Future Priorities

The importance of food composition data has been recognized as far back as the 1940’s where UK based scientists McCance and Widdowson stated that “a knowledge of the chemical composition of food is the first essential in dietary treatment of disease, or in any quantitative study of human nutrition.” This statement remains highly relevant in the present, and particularly in many African countries where the response to complex problems of food insecurity, undernutrition, overweight/obesity and related non-communicable disease sequelae cannot be achieved without reliable food composition data. Yet, less than half of African countries have reliable up-to date food composition