This panel sheds light on the impact of COVID-19 on sexual and reproductive rights and services, as well as providing suggestions on how to safeguard SRHR in conflict settings.
Community transformation centers the work and leadership of Youth Action for Community Transformation (YACOT), a community-based organization advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in northwest Uganda. YACOT is based in the Odobu Zone of Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement, serving refugees (mostly from neighboring South Sudan) and members of the host community.Focused on serving the needs of community members from ages 15-35, YACOT leads SRH education, advocacy, and supply distribution. Co-founder and Executive Director Met Lim Gatluak said that, for HIV/AIDS, YACOT offers testing, basic counseling, and community-based outreach. Other SRHR programming includes the distribution of condoms, menstrual care management workshops, and family planning referrals.
In September, USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership Project, in collaboration with WHO and UNFPA, hosted a technical consultation focused on maternal mental health. It brought together experts across the humanitarian-development nexus and reviewed the findings from a comprehensive landscape analysis brief the agencies undertook over the past few months. In this blog, the IAWG Newborn Initiative summarizes this consultation and calls upon the humanitarian community to examine the way forward for supporting the mental health of mothers in humanitarian and fragile settings to ensure they are not left behind.
This webinar will familiarize participants with added resources to ensure inclusive SRH emergency preparedness at the community level, including the new edition of the MISP Distance Learning Module, a series of Community Capacity and Needs Assessment (CCNA) tools, and the Facilitator’s Kit for Community preparedness for SRH and gender workshop with integrated action planning. It will also include the lessons and best practices in addressing community preparedness in Pakistan and in preparing to address SRHR in community level emergency preparedness in Nepal.
The Canadian Advisory of Women Immigrants (CAWI), is conducting a community research project to find out more about the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) curriculums taught in schools across Canada and how they have impacted minority populations like immigrants. The goal of the project is to help CAWI create more inclusive SRH resources for marginalized communities that can be used across schools in Canada.
On 23 September 2021, the Women’s Refugee Commission, GBV AOR Community of Practice, and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative hosted a moderated discussion to discuss how different humanitarian sectors can improve their approach and support male s
InterAction is seeking proposals from consultants or consultancy teams to undertake the development of a framework for an action-based research study on conflict and hunger.
MyHealth MyPriority is a program out to sensitize communities on sexual health with a focus on HIV/AIDS the use of contraceptives and lubricants, encouraging people to feel comfortable talking about their sexual health. Communities in and around Buea, have relatively low knowledge on usage of female condoms. MyHealth MyPriority aims at enlightening the population on the use of female condoms. Though abstinence is the first advice given out to the population, the use of contraceptives for sexually active people is advised.
This webinar familiarizes viewers with resources to ensure inclusive SRH emergency preparedness at the community level, including the new edition of the MISP Distance Learning Module, a series of Community Capacity and Needs Assessment (CCNA) tools, and the Facilitator’s Kit for Community preparedness for SRH and gender workshop with integrated action planning. It also includes the lessons and best practices in addressing community preparedness in Pakistan and in preparing to address SRHR in community-level emergency preparedness in Nepal.
The armed conflict that began in November 2020 in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has involved grave abuses, including sexual violence and destruction of healthcare facilities, committed by Ethiopian and Eritrean armed forces, and regional Amhara militias allied to the Ethiopian army. Opposing Tigrayan militia forces have also committed serious abuses. "I Always Remember That Day" finds that the healthcare needs of sexual violence survivors, including girls and women between ages 6 and 80, have included termination of pregnancy, treatment for HIV and Hepatitis B, and care for broken bones and stab wounds. Survivors also sought support for depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress.
GWI's Building GBV Evidence program hosted the first in a four-part webinar series focused on gaps and opportunities around GBV research among conflict-affected displaced populations. This first session, “Finding the Path Forward: Promoting Equity and Ethics in Research on GBV among Refugee Populations in the Global South,” was hosted on Thursday, November 18, 2021.
MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience collaborated with USAID’s Knowledge Success to develop 20 Essential Resources for Family Planning and Reproductive Health in Fragile Settings. This curated collection of resources helps individuals understand the complexities of fragile settings and opportunities for collaboration and coordination in fragile settings where both humanitarian and development assistance may be present. It offers practical tools for implementing partners and examples of effective programming relevant to family planning and reproductive health.