Family Planning

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 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.

Appendices are available in separate PDF file here.

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.

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

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.