During this interactive consultation, participants worked in small groups to develop evidence-based recommendations for governments, donors and implementing agencies to improve access to the full range of family planning methods from preparedness, to acute humanitarian response, to protracted response and recovery.
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 rapid evidence summary reviews emerging evidence of the effects of COVID-19 on provision and demand of essential maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition, family planning, and reproductive health (MNCHN/FP/RH) care.
Global Health Cluster and WHO SRHR in collaboration with BRAC JPG supported the SRH research in Bangladesh CXB settings and publication went trough in "Conflict and Health'' journal in December on ''Challenges and strategies in conducting sexual and reproductive health research among Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh'' attached below for further dissemination.
CARE Australia and UNFPA APRO collaboratively developed a think piece about the linkages between women’s economic empowerment, GBV and SRHR. This working paper draws on evidence from CARE's and UNFPA's program work, ]making a case for a holistic approach to advance gender transformation, particularly in the area of economic justice.
The main goal for this research assignment was to collect data around the barriers of accessing safe abortion services experienced by survivors of sexual violence and whether Islam, as interpreted in Puntland’s sharia law, allows for the exercise of a right to access abortion services following an act of sexual violence. Research questions include: what laws, policies, and protections are in place for sexual violence survivors vis-à-vis abortion? How do these laws, policies, and protections interact with social and gender norms? To what extent are these laws, policies, and protections for sexual violence survivors vis-à-vis abortion enforced? And how can these laws, policies, and protections be supplemented, revised, or amended?
The MISP Readiness Assessment (MRA) is for governments, the United Nations, civil society organizations, community-based organizations, and private sector actors—particularly those working in the area of SRH and disaster management—to come together and assess the readiness to implement the MISP during an emergency.
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