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Localization

The Global Health Cluster defines localization as a collaborative process to engage local and national actors (L/NAs) in leading health responses. In 2024 the Localization Strategy was launched, which outlines practical steps to strengthen L/NA involvement in coordination mechanisms at country and global levels, with specific goals set to be achieved by December 2025.

e-Learning

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The Health Cluster Coordination e-learning course provides an introduction to the work of the Health Cluster, which aims to save lives and promote dignity in humanitarian and public health emergencies, and to strengthen the efficiency and accountability in responding to humanitarian crises.

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Training of trainers: preparing health care workers for emergencies such as Ebola, Liberia 2015.

Health Clusters exist to relieve suffering and save lives in humanitarian emergencies, advancing the well-being and dignity of affected populations. There are 29 Health Clusters/Sectors, of which 2 are regional coordination mechanisms. The Global Health Cluster exists to support Health Clusters/Sectors in countries

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Afghanistan earthquake: situation reports

An urgent call to action from the Global Health Cluster

Defining high priority health services (H3) to be delivered in Mobile Clinics

Ethiopia H3 workshops advance high-priority health services for humanitarian response

Publications

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Health Cluster Guide: A practical handbook

4 September 2020

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Health Cluster Guide: A practical handbook

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Number of pages

457

Reference numbers

ISBN: 978-92-4-000472-6

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CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

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La notion de localisation conceptualisée initialement par le Grand Bargain en 2016, reconnaît la nécessité d'offrir des opportunités...

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The Localization Agenda conceptualized initially by the Grand Bargain in 2016, recognizes the need to have equitable opportunities for Local and National...

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Photo stories

Life on the frontline: a glimpse of Health Cluster coordination in Gaza

Youth volunteer is bringing an elderly woman to a vaccination site in Camp 23, Cox’s Bazar.

Bringing COVID-19 vaccination close to the most vulnerable

2.Relief International first began operating in Bangladesh in 2004 and has scaled up their efforts in the wake of the Rohingya crisis

The Health Cluster protects the most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic

Health Cluster frontline workers respond to COVID-19

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