Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis investigates the experiences of adolescents displaced by humanitarian crisis. The world is currently seeing unprecedented levels of mass displacement, and almost half of the world's 70 million displaced people are children and adolescents under the age of 18. Displacement for adolescents comes with huge disruption to their education and employment prospects, as well as increased risks of poor psychosocial outcomes and sexual and gender-based violence for girls. Considering these intersectional vulnerabilities throughout, this book explores the experiences of adolescents from refugee, internally displaced persons and stateless communities in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Rwanda. Drawing on innovative mixed-methods research, the book investigates adolescent capabilities, including education, health and nutrition, freedom from violence and bodily integrity, psychosocial wellbeing, voice and agency, and economic empowerment. Centring the diverse voices and experiences of young people and focusing on how policy and programming can be meaningfully improved, this book will be a vital guide for humanitarian students and researchers, and for practitioners seeking to build effective, evidence-based policy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003167013, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis investigates the experiences of adolescents displaced by humanitarian crisis. The world is currently seeing unprecedented levels of mass displacement, and almost half of the world's 70 million displaced people are children and adolescents under the age of 18. Displacement for adolescents comes with huge disruption to their education and employment prospects, as well as increased risks of poor psychosocial outcomes and sexual and gender-based violence for girls. Considering these intersectional vulnerabilities throughout, this book explores the experiences of adolescents from refugee, internally displaced persons and stateless communities in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Rwanda. Drawing on innovative mixed-methods research, the book investigates adolescent capabilities, including education, health and nutrition, freedom from violence and bodily integrity, psychosocial wellbeing, voice and agency, and economic empowerment. Centring the diverse voices and experiences of young people and focusing on how policy and programming can be meaningfully improved, this book will be a vital guide for humanitarian students and researchers, and for practitioners seeking to build effective, evidence-based policy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003167013, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us. This book presents impactful findings from international longitudinal studies that respond to the United Nations' Agenda 2030 commitment to "leave no-one behind". Contributors explore a wide range and complexity of pressing global issues, with emphasis given to excluded and vulnerable populations and gender inequality. Importantly, it sets out actionable strategies for policymakers and practitioners to help strengthen the global Sustainable Development Goals framework, accelerate their implementation and improve the construction of effective public policy.

Hope is a complex concept-one academics use to accept the unknown while also expressing optimism. However, it can also be an action-oriented framework with measurable outcomes. In Education Transformation in Muslim Societies, scholars from around the world offer a wealth of perspectives for incorporating hope in the education of students from kindergarten through university to stimulate change, dialogue, and transformation in their communities. For instance, though progress has been made in Muslim societies on early education and girls' enrollment, it is not well documented. By examining effective educational initiatives and analyzing how they work, educators, policymakers, and government officials can create a catalyst for positive educational reform and transformation. Adopting strength-based educational discourse, contributors to Education Transformation in Muslim Societies reveal how critical the whole-person approach is for enriching the brain and the spirit and instilling hope back into the teaching and learning spaces of many Muslim societies and communities. Education Transformation in Muslim Societies is a copub with the International Institute of Islamic Thought.

Over the last few decades, International Fund (IF) programs were successful in helping many developing countries to make real progress in health, agriculture and education systems. IF has become an important source in developing countries including Palestine. So, the analysis of IF contributions to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) provides important overview about the process of health development in Palestine, thus the overall aim of this book to assess the role of IF in supporting the Palestinian Health System at the NGOs sector in Palestine. This book helps in providing a clear vision and insight about the appropriate utilization of donated funds to improve the health status of the Palestinians as well as health care system development.

The study aimed to explore the quality of care provided to Persons with in Gaza in order to enable the development of corrective strategies that improves the care provided to PWD by identifying future priorities that can be used to target assistance policy, programs and services for PWD in Palestine. The study results identified transportation, financial constraints, attitudes (individuals, peers, parents and teachers), teaching and care provisions, curriculum and physical access as interacting factors that create barriers to their education. The study showed that generally there was a low level of utilization of medical and rehabilitation care. The study demonstrated that PWD believing that the main factors that preventing them from full participation are their disability. Moreover the results disclosed that 8.9% of respondents are totally socially excluded; they are neither attendees nor invitees to social occasions and are rarely visited in their own homes.

Universally, organizations facing uncertain contexts need to learn in an efficient and effective manner. In the absence of learning, organizations and individuals simply repeat old practices and improvements are either fortuitous or short-lived. The overall aim of this study is to ascertain the applicability of the Learning Organization (LO) concepts to the Palestinian Ministry of Health institutions in Gaza from the managers' perspectives. The design of this study is analytical cross-sectional one. Self-administered standardized questionnaire was completed by 662 managers with a response rate of 74.9%. The overall reliability coefficient was high (0.820). The study indicated that the overall revealed mean of the five LO disciplines was 5.7 (out of 10) with the highest mean for systems thinking discipline (6.1) and lowest mean for the personal mastery discipline. In addition, the dimensions of the LO revealed a total mean of 5.2 out of 10; with the individual learning being the highest (5.3) and the team learning and organizational learning being the lowest (5.1). The extracted findings reflect weak performance of the MOH as a LO from the perspectives of its managers.

Ideally, it is assumed that PHC services should be responsive to people's needs and expectations. Client-centered PHC services could meet the goal of being responsive through designing and providing health care services that suit clients and guarantee appropriate accessibility, involvement in the caring processes and the delivery of quality health care services. This quantitative analytic cross-sectional study was conducted in order to assess the extent to which the governmental PHC services in Gaza Strip are client-centered. The study recommends adopting new policies that enhance the client centeredness of the heath care services through increasing the awareness about basic clients' health rights, increasing clients' involvement in the planning, implementation and evaluation of health services. Also, improving communication and interaction between the clinics teams and the local communities is essential including establishing community committees.

This study examined the extent to which local health NGOs follow an evidence-based decision making approach through using HIS. This census study utilized descriptive, analytical cross sectional design with a quantitative approach. Two interviewed questionnaires were used for data collection from two diverse sources; the NGO and its managers. Low performance was found regarding the use of indicators and in the HIS data sources whereas HIS data management and the information dissemination and use in decision making showed high results. Lesser performance was found in the evaluation of HIS resources and in HIS information products. Participants working in hospitals revealed lower perceptions in all HIS components in comparison to other groups. Similarly, computer users elicited higher HIS performance than non-users at all components. Top managers elicited higher scores in information products and the availability of resources than lower level managers. To enhance the information based decision making, enhancing a culture conducive to the use of information in decision making is essential. Last but not least, reinforcing capacity building skills in HIS is extremely important.

Storage of medicine is one of the most important stages in the pharmaceutical and medical preparations management, which influences the quality and the effectiveness of these products. Aim: To assess the storage system of the drugs, medical disposables and their management in the international, local NGOs and private warehouses in Gaza governorates in order to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the pharmaceuticals storage, management and subsequently its utilization. Methods: The design of the study was descriptive, analytical, cross sectional one; the sample included all medical warehouses which belong to local and international NGOs and the private sector and all the employees working in these warehouses who had direct responsibilities in storage process. Data was collected through self-administered questionnaire completed by one hundred and five employees and checklist for fifty one warehouses. The response rate was 95% for employees and 98% for warehouses. Result: Almost all warehouses had special areas for receiving and checking medical supplies and more than half of them had considered these areas as sufficient and 64% had no emergency doors; and 53% had no emerge

This study aims to assess the workload status at nursing stations at UNRWA health centers in order to contribute to the delivery of safe and effective nursing care to clients. A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted in order to develop a workload measurement. In total, 258 nursing procedures were assessed for time unit values at the service delivery points at nursing stations in the selected health centers. Nurses' perceptions reflected relatively moderate scores regarding the overall domains constituting the entire workload status (66.75%), 91% of nurses believed that they are work overloaded and they attributed their feeling of being overloaded to factors such as increasing paperwork, inadequate staffing, increasing intensity of work, having additional non-nursing job duties and external interruptions/noise. The average measurement of the time unit values per nursing procedure in minuets had been calculated. Decreasing paper work, ensuring appropriate staffing level and implementing job rotation programs are important for having fair and appropriate workload.