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The focus of this tool is to forecast essential supplies: it includes the estimation of personal protective equipment, diagnostic equipment, biomedical equipment for case management, essential drugs for supportive care, and consumable medical supplies.

Based on World Health Organization guidelines, Jhpiego developed a handy infographic for health care workers, support staff and community health workers to help identify and utilize the right personal protective equipment.

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The Country Inter-Agency Reproductive Health (IARH) Kits Forecasting Tool is an excel-based planning tool for country-level forecasting of IARH kits. It estimates the number of IARH kits needed for the acute phase (first three months) of a humanitarian crisis and up to a maximum of nine months. Adjustments can be made for a longer acute phase if service or logistics data is available (up to nine months only to encourage requests for bulk sexual and reproductive health supplies during sustained situations). The tool also provides an advocacy dashboard to help mobilize resources for services and supplies during an emergency.

The tip sheet identifies key, sector-specific GBV risks that we believe are likely to occur and/or be exacerbated during the COVID response, along with recommendations on how to mitigate these risks.

In the last 20 years, there has been increasing standard and guideline development and program experiences related to accountability in humanitarian settings. Yet, the emphasis is on tools or mechanisms for accountability with less attention to changing norms regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights within affected communities, and to a lesser extent, among implementers of humanitarian programs or to institutionalizing community participation.

Even with the pandemic wreaking havoc on the U.S. and global health care systems and economies, reproductive health care needs and decisions cannot be put on hold during the COVID-19 crisis. As Congress prepares additional relief packages, here is what it needs to prioritize to ensure that all people can make the decisions that are right for them and their families.

In these unprecedented and uncertain times, it is critical to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) remain an integral part of essential health services, that there are opportunities to improve policy and guide frameworks to reduce barriers to SRH services, and that governments ensure gender and human rights-based approaches to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. This document offers a set of general asks aimed at providing member associations with guidance on the key areas/ issues to advocate for with their governments.

The success of the global response—the ability of both women and men to survive and recover from the pandemic's effects—will depend on the quality of evidence informing the response and the extent to which data represent sex and gender differences.

A sexual and reproductive health and justice framework—one that centres human rights, acknowledges intersecting injustices, recognises power structures, and unites across identities—is essential for monitoring and addressing the inequitable gender, health, and social effects of COVID-19.