The UNFPA Humanitarian Action 2021 Overview highlights the needs and rights of women and adolescent girls in emergencies, which are often overlooked. UNFPA is appealing for $818 million, to reach 54 million women, girls, and young people, including 35 million women of reproductive age, 29 million adolescents and young people, and over 4 million pregnant women in 68 countries.
AlignMNH: Collective Action for Maternal Newborn Health builds on decades of work across the MNH community and seeks to complement and amplify existing efforts. By convening stakeholders in a regular and predictable manner and building a knowledge exchange platform upon which these stakeholders can share learning, experiences and evidence, AlignMNH aims to support countries in realizing their MNH goals. As part of our iterative design process, we invite members of the IAWG Online Group to complete a brief and anonymous survey on technical and design considerations for the AlignMNH knowledge hub.
The compendium outlines and rates emerging interventions in refugee settings carried out prior to COVID-19, and during the pandemic in the context of community-based protection. It focuses on the East, Horn, and Great Lakes Region of Africa, and showcases the responses of UNHCR country operations and UNHCR implementing partners.
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially impacted the continuation of maternal and newborn health services and surveillance in low-and-middle-income countries. In addition to the increased risk that pregnant women face from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, secondary effects of the pandemic have increased barriers to care and reduced care seeking behaviors due to concerns about COVID-19. In order to contribute to reductions in maternal and newborn mortality from diseases, including COVID-19, pregnancy surveillance information must be captured and used to formulate actionable responses that will be integrated into routine MNH service provision. These guidelines aim to strengthen an integrated services and surveillance system for COVID-19, with the ultimate goal of supporting women and newborns throughout pregnancy and postpartum. Guidelines aim to facilitate cohesion in care between the community and health facility levels and support standardized COVID-19 referral processes.
Ready to Save Lives Toolkit: Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in Emergencies
FP2020, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), John Snow, Inc., Women's Refugee Commission, and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG)The purpose of the toolkit is to bring together existing learning and guidance as a starting point for stakeholders to begin SRH preparedness work. Within the SRH sector the field of preparedness is relatively new and growing. More collective effort is required to further evaluate the impact of preparedness efforts and push the field forward. This effort is a first attempt at synthesizing draft guidance for SRH preparedness, and is intended for field testing. The toolkit recognizes the longstanding work of the field of emergency and disaster risk management, and endeavors to bridge that work with the human rights-oriented and people-centered field of sexual and reproductive health.
Lancement mondial de Prêts à sauver des vies : FP2020 référentiel de préparation
FP2020, la Fédération internationale pour la planification familiale (IPPF), John Snow, Inc., la Commission des femmes réfugiées et le Fonds des Nations Unies pour la population (FNUAP) en collaboration avec le Groupe de travail inter-agences sur la santé reproductive en situation de crise (IAWG)Cette vidéo est le lancement mondial de Prêts à sauver des vies : un référentiel de préparation à la santé sexuelle et reproductive dans des situations d’urgence. Inspiré par les leçons tirées de plusieurs pays et contextes, ce guide a été développé pour aider à guider les décideurs et autres parties prenantes qui souhaitent garantir la fourniture de services de santé sexuelle et reproductive appropriés et de qualité dès le début d'une situation d'urgence. Le référentiel a été développé par Jennifer Schlecht, conseillère humanitaire du FP2020 jusqu'à son décès il y a tout juste un an.
Global launch of Ready to Save Lives: SRH Preparedness Toolkit
FP2020, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), John Snow, Inc., Women's Refugee Commission, and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWGThe Senior Reproductive Health (RH) Officer is a member of the multidisciplinary public health team and will ensure that UNHCR's reproductive health and HIV programs meet minimum UNHCR and global health standards in order to minimize preventable morbidity and mortality among populations of concern (POC) and towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Medical Abortion and Self-Managed Abortion: Frequently Asked Questions on Health and Human Rights
Center for Reproductive Rights, IpasThe publication, Medical Abortion and Self-Managed Abortion: Frequently Asked Questions on Health and Human Rights, issued by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Ipas in December, is now available in French and Spanish.
This evaluation of our activities enabled us to identify several barriers to access to sexual and reproductive healthcare regularly faced by our patients. In addition to administrative and language issues, we noted that the traditional health care system lacks tools, measures, and mechanisms adapted to these women’s vulnerabilities and attentive to the socio-cultural challenges inherent to our different life contexts. Therefore, this analysis proposes for each of the above-mentioned themes (1) "toolboxes" containing measures that can be easily implemented by the various sexual and reproductive health actors, (2) operational recommendations for precariousness stakeholders, and (3) general conclusions addressing political decision-makers on the measures to be taken so that every woman, regardless of her income or administrative status, can access free and accessible information and health services adapted to their sexual and reproductive health needs.
Présentation du rapport d'évaluation des activités de MdM en santé sexuelle et reproductive
Médecins du MondePlease note that this event took place in French. This event presented Doctor's of the World new report on the sexual and reproductive health of vulnerable women living in Brussels. This report is based on an evaluation of Doctors of the World - Belgium’s activities regarding sexual and reproductive health from March 2018 to March 2019.
OPPORTUNITY: Senior Gender Advisor
USAID/GHSI-IIIThe Senior Gender Advisor will be part of the PRH Gender Team situated within the Policy, Evaluation, and Communication Division. The Senior Gender Advisor will provide technical leadership and serve as a point person for gender-related issues across all 4 Divisions and the Front Office in PRH. S/he will work with other PRH gender advisors and other PRH staff to support the integration of PRH’s gender priorities (i.e., male engagement, reproductive empowerment, and mitigation of gender-based violence,) across FP/RH programming areas (e.g., research, data collection and analysis, policy and advocacy, service delivery, social and behavior change communication, commodity security and logistics, monitoring and evaluation). S/he will also help advance efforts to mitigate gender-based violence within fragile contexts and integrate gender within health financing and economic empowerment in FP/RH programming.