Self-Care Everywhere: Innovative Approaches to Achieving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings

8/24/2021
By IAWG, IRC and Vitala Global

Overview

Approximately 1.8 billion people live in fragile settings, including 168 million in humanitarian settings. Achieving Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals for sexual and reproductive health and rights requires that innovations in service delivery be applied at scale across the humanitarian-development nexus.

Welcome to the Self-Care Learning and Discovery Series

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Video

This interactive session examined promising strategies for increasing access to sexual and reproductive health self-care in humanitarian settings and how learning from these settings can be applicable everywhere.

Speakers explored ways in which to adapt and apply evidence around self-care from stable settings to humanitarian settings. Participants heard directly from humanitarian implementers on innovative approaches to self-care in crises and discuss how to engage both humanitarian and development partners in advancing an inclusive self-care agenda that responds to the needs of people in humanitarian and fragile settings.

Speakers

Erin Wheeler, Sr. Technical Advisor for SRHR, International Rescue Committee
Dr. Roopan Gill, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Vitala Global Foundation
Sheena M Currie, Senior Maternal and Newborn Health Adviser, Jhpiego
Faridah Luanda, Founder, DA VISION GROUP
Diana Carolina Moreno, Advocacy Director, Profamilia, Colombia

Posters

Sexual and reproductive health services remain critical during COVID-19

IAWG members and partners are producing clinical and programmatic guidance, assessments, policy papers, and statements to ensure continued prioritization of sexual and reproductive health and rights throughout COVID-19 response in humanitarian settings.

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