Adolescents

This toolkit was developed to help humanitarian program managers and healthcare providers meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents when an emergency strikes. Young people represent a large portion of the populations affected by crises but humanitarian workers generally have no prior experience or training in ASRH. This toolkit was therefore developed, as a companion to the Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Refugee Settings, to ensure that service providers and program managers have the right resources to make programs acceptable, accessible and appropriate for adolescents in emergency situations. It includes user-friendly tools for assessing adolescent needs, fostering participation with communities and parents, and identifying reproductive health entry points in existing adolescent programs. It also contains tools for service providers to more effectively work with adolescents at the clinic and community level.

The goal of this tool is to improve the clinical care of sexual assault survivors in low resource settings by demonstrating compassionate, competent, and confidential care in keeping with international standards. It is intended for use in the training of all staff in health clinics (clinicians and non-clinicians) who interact with sexual assault survivors.

This training package is prepared for counsellors and health care providers who offer sexual and reproductive health services to women and youhg people. The focal areas are trauma, guilt and self-esteem.

A training guide for a two-day skill-building workshop to introduce participants to the topic of engaging boys and men in RH in conflict and emergency-response settings. The module includes a facilitator's guide, handouts, slides for presentations, and participant resources for additional reading. The module is intended for personnel working in conflict and other emergency-response settings who are interested in engaging boys and men in gender-based violence prevention and reproductive health. This module is appropriate for staff that have had some training in gender, GBV prevention, and reproductive health.

The zip file linked above is over 10Mb in size. The document is also available for download in three sections: part 1, Appendixes 1 - 6, and Appendixes 7 - 9.

This document summarizes the importance of implementing the MISP at the onset of every emergency, as advocacy messages for policy makers.

A self-instructional learning module that helps to increase knowledge of priority reproductive health services to initiate at the onset of a crisis. Module includes chapter quizzes and post-test. A passing score on the post-test will result in certification and (for U.S. nurses only) qualifies as 3.5 contact hours.

Also available in French here.
See also: corrections to the IAWG Field Manual, 2007
IAWG Field Manual Survey Results, 2008

Report of an Inter-agency Global Evaluation 2004, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, November 2004. This report highlights the status of reproductive health services for refugees and internally displaced persons, identifies gaps in these services, and outlines the way forward with respect to strengthening and/or expanding services. In addition to the report and its appendices, there is a brief synopsis, web film, and PowerPoint presentations.

Summary, poceedings, book of abstracts, and select presentations from the RHRC Consortium Conference held in Brussels, Belgium, October 7-8, 2003.

Full proceedings of the RHRC Conference held in Washington DC, December 5-6, 2000.

A Field Resource for Programming With and For Refugee Adolescents and Youth