Sub-Working Group on Supplies
Improving the availability and quality of sexual and reproductive health supplies in crisis-affected settings.
Overview
The Supplies Sub-Working Group is a dedicated group of IAWG members who work to strengthen SRH logistics and supply chains in humanitarian settings during preparedness, acute response, protracted response, and recovery.
Leadership
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- Women's Refugee Commission
Supplies Resources
The revised Interagency Reproductive Health (IARH) Kits (2019) will be released in the second half of 2020 along with a number of updated tools and resources. Please check back for updates periodically.
Reproductive Health Kits (RH Kits) Calculator
This spreadsheet calculates the number of Inter-Agency Reproductive Health Kits required according to site-specific population and health facility numbers. The calculator also provides kit dimensions and weights and cold-chain requirements to assist with ordering.
Supply Chain Challenges and Commodity Availability at the Last Mile: Findings from Seven MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience Partner Countries
Commodity availability for maternal, newborn, and child health; voluntary family planning; reproductive health; and nutrition programs is critical to the success of any health project and is often a major barrier to the provision of quality health services at the last mile. This report explores supply chain challenges in fragile and conflict-affected settings. To create this report, MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience staff undertook research to better understand how countries manage commodities at facility and community levels, how those commodities are dispensed and tracked, and what the major bottlenecks are.
Program/Learning Briefs from the ‘Sauti’/VOICE Project – a collaboration between the Population Council and the UNHCR EHAGL Africa Bureau
The two briefs summarize emerging lessons from the Sauti/VOICE project, which is working to address the needs of survivors in refugee settings in the East, Horn, and Great Lakes Regions of Africa by transposing evidence-based sexual and gender-based violence models into refugee contexts for adaptation, implementation, and scale-up.
Devex at UNGA: Safeguarding SRHR in Conflict Zones
This panel sheds light on the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive rights and services, as well as providing suggestions on how to safeguard SRHR in conflict settings.
Supplies
Learn more about how supply chains are uniquely impacted by humanitarian crises and emergencies.