Experts gathered at Women Deliver to discuss the minimum standards for sexual and reproductive health during an emergency and the humanitarian and human rights principles that underpin these standards.
Couldn’t make it to one of the IAWG co-hosted sessions during Women Deliver? Check out the articles below to learn about each session and what attendees were saying across social media.
Surviving the first day of childbirth (Day One) is a challenge for women and newborns everywhere, but especially in humanitarian contexts. This Women Deliver panel promoted integrated maternal/newborn programming on the day of birth to achieve reductions in maternal and newborn mortality.
Youth leaders shared insights into the risks encountered in emergency settings and their innovative strategies on building adolescent capacities to provide quality sexual and reproductive services to adolescent girls.
The most valuable players in humanitarian action—women-focused civil society organizations (CSOs)—are also the first responders, the most knowledgeable about community needs, and the ones who stay long after international actors depart. In this session, CSOs showed how local expertise can inform humanitarian policies and practices, and empower CSOs in the process.
