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As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts healthcare services, low- and middle-income countries must continue offering essential, reproductive health care to women and girls using telehealth channels, when possible.

The Adolescent Programming Toolkit has been designed to support frontline teams to work with and for adolescents in emergencies and protracted crises. Responding to crises and meeting the unique needs of adolescents, particularly girls, is a core part of Plan International’s work. The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on girls’ and young women’s health, including SRHR, protection, education, economic opportunities, and the digital gender divide has once again highlighted the importance of our distinct focus on empowering adolescent girls in crisis settings. The guidance and tools have been developed by Plan International staff working in emergencies and protracted crises based on program evidence, numerous accounts from adolescents, and good practices shared by frontline staff globally. It contains four chapters:

To help healthcare professionals who are struggling with their mental wellbeing, the Distance Learning MSc course Humanitarian Intervention is putting together a wellbeing portal to help professionals and members of the community in times of crisis.

Focused on Jumla, Nepal, this case study explores the various social factors and attitudes that discriminate against menstruators and how these challenges disempower community members.

The development of non-hormonal contraceptives is critical to increase options for women. In combination with prevention against sexually transmitted infections, they can become an important component of multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs) which address multiple reproductive health needs with a single product. Resulting from multiple rounds of expert consultations, this manuscript published in the journal Biology of Reproduction outlines a framework aimed to guide the development of non-hormonal contraceptive MPTs.

This report investigates the trends in reported gender-based violence rates in Cox's Bazar, elevating concern that current lockdown policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate GBV.

This series of articles cover case studies that examine the humanitarian health response for women and children and explore how health and nutrition interventions can overcome delivery barriers.

This article ponders the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents' access to sexual and reproductive health in the U.S., including contraceptive use and abortion care.

This monitoring and evaluation toolkit explores how adolescent sexual and reproductive health safe space staff can collect, utilize, and meaningfully engage adolescents in program data processes.

This webinar discusses the challenges related to accessing sexual and reproductive (SRH) services during the COVID-19 pandemic, as told by community service providers and World Bank officials.

The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition Advocacy & Accountability Sub-Working Group published a call to action to advance favorable policies, adequate financing, and functioning supply chains for RH supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes humanitarian settings and is relevant across the humanitarian-development continuum.

This policy analysis highlights innovative, field-based adaptations that responders are architecting to meet patients' sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs and care during the COVID-19 pandemic.