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A Participatory Workshop Toolkit to Transition from the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for SRH
Providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care to all, including those affected by crises, is an overarching goal of the health sector. These priority lifesaving SRH interventions are bundled into what is known as the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for SRH. During a crisis, providing SRH services that are more critical in preventing death and illness are often prioritized over others. The final objective of the MISP is planning to transition to comprehensive SRH services that are integrated into primary health care as soon as possible. Over the years, implementing this planning process has proven to be a challenge.
This toolkit provides a step-by-step guide for SRH coordinators, or staff with equivalent responsibilities, to facilitate an in-country workshop that guides stakeholders and partners in planning to transition from the MISP to comprehensive SRH. It can also be used to train facilitators in how to run the workshop.
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3/2/2021
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3/2/2021
This PowerPoint covers the following topics: MISP and comprehensive SRH services, and what it means to integrate comprehensive SRH, services into primary health care, Definitions of quality SRH services, health system building blocks, Current national or subnational SRH situation.
Below, please find a list of templates included in the annex of the facilitator's guide and participant workbook.
This toolkit results from IAWG’s collective effort to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This toolkit builds upon the MISP Considerations Checklist for Implementation During COVID-19 and provides additional resources for planning to transition from MISP to comprehensive SRH services during COVID-19 and other pandemics and major outbreaks.
Planning to transition from the Minimum Initial Service Package for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) toward comprehensive SRH services has been a challenge in humanitarian settings. To bridge this gap, a workshop toolkit for SRH coordinators was designed to support effective planning. This article published in Conflict and Health aims to describe the toolkit design, piloting in Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, and Yemen, and final product. This work demonstrated that collaborative design and piloting efforts resulted in a workshop toolkit that could support a systematic and efficient identification of priority activities and services related to comprehensive SRH. Such priorities could help meet the SRH needs of communities emerging from acute humanitarian situations while strengthening the overall health system. This research was a collaboration with IAWG through the Training Partnership Initiative, the World Health Organization Global Health Cluster, UNFPA, and other SRHR partners.
This webinar explains how to use the Planning for Comprehensive SRH in Crisis-Affected Settings: A Participatory Workshop Toolkit to Transition from the MISP. Learn from colleagues’ experiences leading workshops in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Yemen, and how the planning process contributed to strengthening health systems and resilience for SRH.
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.