Contraceptive Services in Humanitarian Settings and in the Humanitarian-Development Nexus: Summary of Gaps and Recommendations from a State-of-the-Field Landscaping Assessment
The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) completed a landscaping assessment from 2018–2020 to evaluate and build the evidence base on barriers, opportunities, and effective strategies to provide contraceptive services to women and girls affected by crises. The findings revealed several primary gaps that hinder access to contraceptive programming in humanitarian settings. Both the Report and a Two-Page Summary of Findings and Recommendations are provided.
Where There Are Few Screens: Digital Training For Self-care In The Pandemic And Beyond
Contraceptive self-injection holds great potential for expanding women’s family planning options, especially during a pandemic. And now providing digital training options for health workers and clients is key to successful contraceptive self-injection. This article summarizes PATH's work to implement and evaluate our eLearning course for health workers and training video for clients.
Overcoming the ‘tyranny of the urgent’: integrating gender into disease outbreak preparedness and response
This article contributes to discussions on the gender dimensions of disease outbreaks, and preparedness policies and responses, by providing a multi-level analysis of gender-related gaps, particularly illustrating how the failure to challenge gender assumptions and incorporate gender as a priority at the global level has national and local impacts.
COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak
Recognizing the extent to which disease outbreaks affect women and men differently is a fundamental step to understanding the primary and secondary effects of a health emergency on different individuals and communities, and for creating effective, equitable policies and interventions.
A UNHCR Compendium of Interventions in refugee settings Pre- and During COVID-19 in the context of community-based protection – a collaboration between the UNHCR EHAGL Africa Bureau and the Population Council
The compendium outlines and rates emerging interventions in refugee settings carried out prior to COVID-19, and during the pandemic in the context of community-based protection. It focuses on the East, Horn, and Great Lakes Region of Africa, and showcases the responses of UNHCR country operations and UNHCR implementing partners.