Self-Care Everywhere will examine promising strategies for increasing access to sexual & reproductive health through self-care in humanitarian settings. This is part of the Self Care Trailblazers & WRA Self-Care Learning & Discovery Series.
Despite a large body of research demonstrating significant variability in biological sex, sexual development, and bodies, common understandings of human biology and sexual development are dominated by a binary model. In this model, people are assumed to display unambiguous and congruent characteristics that are either female or male. Although changing, this binary model has guided our understanding of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Join us to find out more about Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Intersex People and hear why Intersex issues are important and necessary to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights – especially in crisis settings.
The purpose of this webinar series is to provide guidance to country stakeholders on how to use new tools to strengthen SRH emergency preparedness systems. The first technical webinar in the series will act as an introduction to SRH preparedness with an overview of key documents such as Ready to Save Lives preparedness toolkit and the MISP Readiness Assessment."
In order to ensure all inter-agency users of the IARH kits understand the significant changes to the 6th edition of the kits, UNFPA will be hosting a launch webinar together with the IAWG Supplies Sub-Working Group. The webinar specifically targets IAWG partners who are users of the IARH kits in the field
We are pleased to announce the global launch of the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit (ASRH) for Humanitarian Settings: 2020 Edition. The launches will be co-developed and co-facilitated by the IAWG ASRH sub-working group, adolescents and young people, international and local organizations, and all those interested in making these events as engaging and inclusive as possible.
We are pleased to announce the global launch of the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit (ASRH) for Humanitarian Settings: 2020 Edition. The launches will be co-developed and co-facilitated by the IAWG ASRH sub-working group, adolescents and young people, international and local organizations, and all those interested in making these events as engaging and inclusive as possible.
The Women’s Refugee Commission will share key findings from a mixed-methods study assessing the landscape of family planning services across diverse, crisis-affected settings.
The toolkit was developed by Family Planning 2020, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), John Snow, Inc., Women’s Refugee Commission, and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG). Speakers include Beth Schlachter, Executive Director, FP2020 and Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, UNFPA.
The Women’s Refugee Commission will share key findings from a mixed-methods study assessing the landscape of family planning services across diverse, crisis-affected settings.
This panel will launch a joint advocacy brief developed by these coalitions containing recommendations for governments, donors, and implementing agencies from development and humanitarian settings to improve access to universal health care by focusing on supply chain strengthening at the points where humanitarian and development work converge. It will also present several examples of SRH supply chain interventions in the humanitarian-development nexus at global, regional, and national scales that exemplify some of the recommendations made in the advocacy brief.
Safe abortion care (SAC) is a proven and life-saving intervention to prevent maternal death and morbidity and to manage the consequences of sexual violence in emergencies. Yet despite a culmination of factors that place vulnerable women and girls at increased risk of unintended and unwanted pregnancy, refugees and internally displaced people are systematically denied access to safe abortion care, often even when it is legally allowed, due to a variety of reasons and myths including incorrect assumptions about women’s beliefs, deprioritizing SAC in service delivery, and misunderstanding of the law. This panel will report findings of community perceptions around safe abortion in South Sudan, MISP implementation gaps and challenges in Colombia, and innovative use of “legal risk” as a lens to assess the legal context for abortion work.
