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Family Planning

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  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings
    Source: Save the Children/UNFPA, September 2009
    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.
  • Emergency Contraception for Conflict Affected Settings: A Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium Distance Learning Module
    Source: Developed by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children on behalf of the RHRC Consortium, 2004
    The RHRC Consortium is working to mainstream EC by increasing awareness and knowledge of EC and improving access to and demand for EC in appropriate program locations.
    The brochure version of the module can be downloaded in English (updated in October 2008; optional cover here), French (updated in October 2008; optional cover here), Spanish, Portuguese, Pashto, and Burmese.
  • Fact Sheet on Family Planning
    Source: Raise Initiative, 2007
  • Family Planning Continuation Among Refugees in Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan
    Source: Reproductive Health Research Group, August 2001
    Appendices are available in separate PDF file here.
  • Lessons from CAREs Family Planning Project in the DRC
    Source: CARE, June 2007
  • Meeting Needs for Reproductive Health Services in Post-Conflict Environments: CARE's Family Planning Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Source: Care, June 2007
    This case study highlights the mid-project impact of CAREs three-year Family Planning Project (FPP) in remote, war-torn Maniema province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The goal of the FPP is to reduce unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. After just 20 months of work with the Ministry of Health and civic organizations, the FPP shows an increase in the contraceptive prevalence rate from 1% to 9%, as well as other clear, positive results. This case study explores the FPP mid-project results and lessons learned on addressing family planning as an urgent need and integrating reproductive health care services as part of first tier-interventions implemented by health delivery systems during times of crisis and post-crisis.
  • Minimum Initial Service Package Advocacy Sheet
    Source: IPPF/Women's Refugee Commission, December 2009
    This document summarizes the importance of implementing the MISP at the onset of every emergency, as advocacy messages for policy makers.
  • Programmatic Responses to Refugees' Reproductive Health Needs
    Source: by Sandra Krause, Rachel Jones and Susan Purdin, in International Family Planning Perspectives, December 2000
  • Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-agency Field Manual
    Source: Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations, 1999
  • Reproductive Health Services for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Report of an Inter-agency Global Evaluation
    Source: Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations, November 2004
    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.
  • RHRC 2003 Conference Proceedings: From Disaster to Development
    Source: RHRC Consortium, October 2003
    Summary, poceedings, book of abstracts, and select presentations from the RHRC Consortium Conference held in Brussels, Belgium, October 7-8, 2003.
  • RHRC Consortium 2000 Conference Proceedings: Reproductive Health of Refugees and Displaced Populations
    Source: RHRC Consortium, December 2000
    Full proceedings of the RHRC Conference held in Washington DC, December 5-6, 2000.
  • Understanding Operational Barriers to Family Planning Services in Conflict-Affected Countries: Experiences from Sierra Leone
    Source: USAID, December 2007
  • We Want Birth Control: Reproductive Health Findings in Northern Uganda
    Source: WCRWC, June 2007