This infographic highlights the importance and value of investing in women-focused Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in humanitarian settings.
Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Gender Minorities in Humanitarian Emergencies
IAWG Gender-based Violence Sub-Working GroupThis webinar was co-hosted by the Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility Community of Practice in collaboration with the IAWG sub-working groups on GBV and LGBTQIA+.
This Rapid Gender Analysis provides preliminary information and observations on the different needs, capacities and coping strategies of Venezuelan migrant and refugee women, men, boys, and girls in Colombia.
How Will You Use Your Power? Key Advocacy Messages from Women Deliver 2019
IAWG Communications TaskteamThis two-page handout was distributed during the Women Deliver conference in June 2019. It highlighted the key advocacy messages promoted by IAWG at that time.
World Abortion Laws Map
Center for Reproductive RightsThe definitive record of the legal status of abortion in countries across the globe. The map categorizes the legal status of abortion on a continuum from severe restrictiveness to relative liberality. It is updated in real time, reflecting changes in national laws so human rights advocates can monitor how countries are protecting—or denying—reproductive rights around the world.
A Clear Case for Need and Demand: Accessing Contraceptive Services for Rohingya Women and Girls in Cox’s Bazar
Women's Refugee CommissionA 2019 case study of contraceptive service delivery in Cox’s Bazar, to document work being undertaken to provide contraceptive services and menstrual regulation; to highlight challenges; and to document how some of these challenges were overcome.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Couldn’t make it to one of the IAWG co-hosted sessions during Women Deliver? Check out these articles to learn about each session and what attendees were saying across social media.
Essential Newborn Care Practice at Four Primary Health Facilities in Conflict-Affected Areas of Bossaso, Somalia: a Cross-Sectional Study
Ribka Amsalu, Catherine N. Morris, Kingsley Chukwumalu, Michelle Hynes, Shehryar Janjua, Alexia Couture, Aimee Summers, Amy Cannon, Erin N. Hulland & Sabine BaunachThis study seeks to understand the baseline availability and quality of essential newborn care in Bossaso, Somalia as part of an investigation to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of the "Newborn Health in Humanitarian Settings Field Guide- Interim version" in improving newborn care in humanitarian settings.