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This four-part webinar series focuses on the role of nurses and midwives working in crisis situations around the world with the aim of challenging existing perceptions, highlighting the contribution of nurses and midwives to crisis response, and understanding what is needed to better support them. The series is shaped with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing which has come into greater prominence during the current health crisis. After presenting a broad introduction to the topic, the series of installments focus individually on conflict, climate change, pandemics, and ever-changing widespread health crisis.

This actionable guidance document outlines four strategies for building community support for comprehensive sexuality education in various cultural contexts. Each strategy is accompanied by complementary resources and tools used in real settings. Also available in French.

This systematic review of qualitative studies investigates the nexus of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights and social capital in humanitarian settings. Social capital is an important determinant of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights however little research has been conducted exploring its role during times of crisis. The findings demonstrate that social capital does act through a number of pathways to impact women's sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian settings, both positively and negatively. Insights from this review could help inform community-based preparedness and response programs aimed at improving the demand for and access to quality sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian settings.

This advocacy brief is based on a study conducted in 2021 under the Approaches in Complex and Challenging Environments for Sustainable Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) (ACCESS) program. It explores the equity and agency of selected marginalized communities - including sex workers, transgender people, men who have sex with men, lesbian, bisexual, queer and intersex (LGBT+) people, people living with HIV, people living with a disability, and adolescent girls and young women - in Lebanon, Mozambique, and Uganda, with in relation to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-2021.The brief summarises key findings on the enablers and barriers to SRHR for each community in the three countries. It makes recommendations for humanitarian and development actors on how to better address these barriers, and steps for working across the humanitarian-development nexus with communities.

Global Health Media Project released more than 60 videos on family planning in November and December 2021. The videos cover contraceptive methods, skills, and counseling, as well as videos that support contraceptive practices – such as explaining how to use the MEC wheel and app or explaining bleeding changes on contraceptives. There are 34 videos for frontline health workers, 20 videos for women and partners, and 7 teaching shorts - that show and tell the step-by-step information in the skill videos. The footage was shot in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Uganda. Colleagues from Ipas, UNFPA, WHO, ICM, and Laerdal Global Health provided content expertise throughout the project.The videos are available in English now, with French and Spanish coming soon. Contact GHMP if you would like to narrate them in your language.

Effective implementation of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) requires the intentional building of local support within and across target communities. Considering the lack of resources available on how to achieve this element in practice, we are excited to announce the launching of “CSE We Can Count On”, a document that provides actionable guidance for cultivating sustainable community buy-in for CSE. The content and ideas presented in this document are intended to be transposable to an array of development, humanitarian and social change contexts, and thus would benefit practitioners working in crisis or non-crisis settings at the intersection of health, education, and gender equality.

On October 11, 2022, International Day of the Girl, government leaders and other key stakeholders came together for an Advocacy Activation Meeting focusing on advancing menstrual equity in Malawi. The event was sponsored by The First Lady of Malawi's foundation, Shaping Our Future Foundation, Days for Girls Malawi, and UNFPA.

Columbia University’s GATE Program has launched a new free online course, Menstruation in a Global Content: Addressing Policy and Practice. With 24 global speakers, this self-paced EdX course reviews menstrual and hygiene research, programming, & policies from around the world. Notably, one entire module of the course is focused on menstruation programming and guidance for humanitarian emergencies.

December 1, 2021, marks the second World AIDS Day since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. For populations affected by conflict and crises, COVID-19 has held specific consequences for service delivery and access to care, including for HIV prevention and response. Interruptions to HIV service delivery are often experienced during disruptions such as civil unrest, elections, flooding, cyclones, and disease outbreaks. These disruptions may further drive the HIV epidemic by fueling gender-based violence, child labor, and lack of access to HIV services. As we observe World AIDS Day this year, the STIs/HIV Sub-Working Group (SWG) wishes to emphasize the need for adaptive strategies during humanitarian crises, particularly during the continued COVID-19 pandemic, to ensure uninterrupted service delivery to those we serve.

Centre for Healthcare and Economic Empowerment for Women and Youth (CHCEEWY) was motivated by the outcomes of a team of researchers who discovered the challenges women and young people faced in accessing Healthcare Information and services, economic opportunities, political participation (including in peace and security dialogue), education, and Inheritance. The team decided to take constructive and deliberate social action to address these barriers by advocating for policy that supports the mobilization of women and youth.

This brief provides an overview of how MOMENTUM addresses gender across the project cycle and within a variety of program areas. Given the project’s scale and scope, insights from this resource may be useful to other global health implementers seeking to ensure that gender is effectively integrated within their projects.

In the final newsletter of the year, the African Youth Digest looks back at the exciting activities over the past year, including empowering men and youth to fight GBV, training 55 youth advocates to provide SRH services, 16 days of activism against GBV, and more.