Assignment

Module 1: Coordinate - how to take a coordinated approach to child and adolescent health in a humanitarian emergency

Training course in child and adolescent health in humanitarian settings 2024

January 29, 2024 - Geneva

Tasks

A. Required reading

1. Watch the video presentation titled: Module 1: Coordinate. Alternatively go over the slide set (slide set with talking points).
2. Revise chapter one of the operational guide (pages 17-31) Child and adolescent health in humanitarian settings: operational guide: a holistic approach for programme managers (interactive version).
3. Go over the journal paper titled: Responding to health needs of women, children and adolescents within Syria during conflict: intervention coverage, challenges and adaptations (Akik C et al., 2020).
4. Expert commentary - Erna-Roelofje Christina van Goor, Health Cluster Coordinator, Somalia: Watch the video presentation.

B. Assignment

• Complete and submit your answers to the multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for the module. You will receive the link to the MCQs by email.
• Complete and submit the short paperwork assignment.

Additional suggested reading

• World Health Organization. Health cluster guide: a practical handbook. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020.

Reference document

• World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Child and adolescent health in humanitarian settings: operational guide: a holistic approach for programme managers. Cairo: WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean; 2021. Licence: CC BYNC-SA 3.0 IGO (access the interactive version of the guide).