Supplies
Guaranteeing sexual and reproductive health medical supplies and commodities are available in humanitarian settings when they are needed and to all who need them.
Preparing for an emergency by anticipating risk and mitigating the impact of limited access to supplies.
Ensuring access to Interagency Reproductive Health (IARH) kits where needed at the onset of humanitarian situations.
Re-establishing and repairing supply chains and supporting decreased reliance on IARH kits.
Why it matters
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) supplies and commodities are essential to providing high quality SRH services. During acute crises, the collapse of health systems is common, including interrupted health supply chains. When the initial chaos of an acute emergency subsides work can begin to re-establish or repair national health supply chains, even in protracted emergencies.
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How We Work
Our work on this issue is led by the Supplies Sub-Working Group—a dedicated group of IAWG members who set the priorities and advance research, practice, and advocacy for sexual and reproductive health supplies. Learn about their current objectives, priorities, and latest work.
Supplies Resources
Reproductive Health Kits (RH Kits) Calculator
This spreadsheet calculates the number of Inter-Agency Reproductive Health Kits required according to site-specific population and health facility numbers. The calculator also provides kit dimensions and weights and cold-chain requirements to assist with ordering.
Supply Chain Challenges and Commodity Availability at the Last Mile: Findings from Seven MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience Partner Countries
Commodity availability for maternal, newborn, and child health; voluntary family planning; reproductive health; and nutrition programs is critical to the success of any health project and is often a major barrier to the provision of quality health services at the last mile. This report explores supply chain challenges in fragile and conflict-affected settings. To create this report, MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience staff undertook research to better understand how countries manage commodities at facility and community levels, how those commodities are dispensed and tracked, and what the major bottlenecks are.
Program/Learning Briefs from the ‘Sauti’/VOICE Project – a collaboration between the Population Council and the UNHCR EHAGL Africa Bureau
The two briefs summarize emerging lessons from the Sauti/VOICE project, which is working to address the needs of survivors in refugee settings in the East, Horn, and Great Lakes Regions of Africa by transposing evidence-based sexual and gender-based violence models into refugee contexts for adaptation, implementation, and scale-up.
Devex at UNGA: Safeguarding SRHR in Conflict Zones
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.
