Globally, crises are becoming increasingly complex and compounded as conflict, infectious disease outbreaks, and climate change exacerbate both their scale and severity. More than 80 million women and adolescent girls need humanitarian assistance and 450 million live in fragile settings. Self-care offers an important and exciting opportunity to ensure access to life-saving sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services for all people across the humanitarian-development nexus.
In order to better understand the barriers and opportunities for advancing self-care for SRH in humanitarian and fragile settings the IAWG Self-Care Task Team and The International Rescue Committee present a global assessment report -Self-Care for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings: Barriers, Opportunities and Lessons Learned. This report synthesizes findings and lessons-learned from interviews conducted with leading experts working on self-care and SRHR in humanitarian, fragile and stable settings, including program implementers, researchers, donors and more. Divided into key barriers, opportunities and lessons learned for self-care advocacy and policy, implementation, measurement and research, and investment, the report describes the current landscape of SRH self-care in humanitarian and fragile settings and aims to inform an ambitious new agenda for the self-care movement for the world’s most vulnerable populations.
We encourage you to share this report with relevant colleagues. If you are interested in learning more about or joining the IAWG Self-Care Task Team, you can find more information below.