General Reproductive Health

Investigation of hundreds and thousands of Burmese refugee women and children who have fled into neighboring Thailand as a result of armed conflict and rampant human rights violations. Also available: Thai translation of report by Aurawee Thanasorn

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.

A study on behalf of the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium concerning reproductive health in Zambia.

A Follow-up Study of the Reproductive Health Literacy Project Among Refugees in Guinea

A Practical Guide to Beginning and Sustaining Inter-agency Partnerships (updated)

Also available in French here

Spanish Version available here.

An assessment revealing that IDPs suffer a critical lack of access to reproductive health care owing to a number of factors.

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.

This Guide suggests how the Health Cluster lead agency, coordinator, and partners can work together during a humanitarian crisis to achieve the aims of reducing avoidable mortality, morbidity and disability, and restoring the delivery of and equitable access to preventive and curative health care as quickly as possible. It highlights key principles of humanitarian health action and how coordination and joint efforts among health sector actors working in partnership can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of health interventions. It draws on IASC and other documents but also includes lessons from field experience.

Also available: Guide (English and French) HINTS develops mechanisms for the review, analysis, interpretation and validation of critical health and nutrition information in selected humanitarian emergencies. This includes the review of existing data from a wide variety of on-the-ground sources as well as more formal surveys. It will advise on the use of the resulting analyses for advocacy and programming with funders, UN organizations, and NGOs.

The Gender Handbook supports and complements the IASC Gender-Based Violence Guidelines (Sep. 2005). It is a sector-by-sector guide on how to ensure gender equality programming in humanitarian situations. It provides practical tips on how to mainstream gender and checklists to measure the progress in meeting the needs and ensuring the equal participation of women, girls, boys and men in all aspects of humanitarian response.

Matrix (English)

Available in French. Also available: Guidance Notes, Data Entry and Analysis Tool (English and French) The Initial Rapid Assessment Toolkit aims to enable faster and better multi-sectoral rapid assessment in the first few days of a sudden-onset crisis in order to guide the initial planning of urgent humanitarian interventions, identify needs for follow-up assessments, and inform initial funding decisions. The IRA is designed to be used in the field by team members with relevant general knowledge and experience but without specialized technical expertise in particular sectors (e.g. in health or water programmes). It should enable essential data to be collected and reported for each site visited within 24-48 hours of arrival at the location to be assessed.

Fourth edition. Also available in Spanish and French.

Assessment of the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) of reproductive health services among Sudanese refugees in Eastern Chad from April 5-14, 2005.

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.

A CD-ROM of this manual can be ordered from: CARE, 1625 K Street, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20006, USA rhrc@care.org

Including Refugee Leader Questions; Group Discussion Questions; Survey Introduction and Questions; and a Health Facility Questionnaire and Checklist.

Report detailing a major alternative fuel development program for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal.

This is a very large file and may take some time to download. A CD-ROM of this Manual can be ordered from: CARE, 1625 K Street, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20006, USA rhrc@care.org

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The Reproductive Health Assessment (RHA) Toolkit for Conflict-Affected Women was developed to meet the increased need for accurate reproductive health data among conflict-affected populations. The RHA Toolkit informs program planning, monitoring and evaluation, and advocacy efforts. It enables field-based staff with limited survey expertise to collect information about safe motherhood, family planning, sexual history, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, and female genital cutting. It also has sampling instructions, a training manual, questionnaire, data entry program, analysis guide with preprogrammed analyses, and data use suggestions.

A review of the policy environment for reproductive health in emergencies by the RAISE Initiative shows that policies and technical guidelines related to gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS are well represented; however, those related to family planning and emergency obstetric care are severely lacking.

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

The Reproductive Health Literacy Course (RHL) began as a pilot project in July 1999 in the Gueckedou Prefecture in Guinea. The purpose of the project is to bring improved literacy skills and increased reproductive health knowledge to refugee women from Sierra Leone and Liberia.

The training materials produced for this project are the results of a joint effort between American Refugee Committee (ARC), JSI Research and Training Institute, and World Education.

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.

The RHRC Monitoring and Evaluation Tool Kit presents a decision-oriented model for program monitoring and evaluation. The M&E Tool Kit includes: guidelines for program planning using the Causal Pathway, qualitative and quantitative method protocols, combination methods (facility assessment, situation analysis, rapid assessment, etc.), and information sharing.

Included in this report are an extensive overview of the RHRC program and in-depth summaries of RHRC projects. This material was produced by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., on behalf of the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium. JSI/RHRC, 2002.

The Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme in Crisis and Post-Crisis Situations in East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (SPRINT) Initiative has developed a facilitators manual on priority sexual and reproductive health (SHR) services in humanitarian emergencies, including prevention and response to sexual violence. It can be used by persons from agencies, organizations or governments who provide training on SRH in crises and emergencies and who are familiar with the concepts. The manual provides step-by-step direction through each day of the training, including materials required.

Also available in Bahasa (download as zip files in two parts, I and II).

Post-Intervention Survey Report. HIV/AIDS/STI Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) Survey among commercial sex workers, military and youth in Port Loko, Sierra Leone.

The Long Wait: Reproductive Health Care in Haiti, draws on findings from an assessment of Haiti's reproductive health response in crisis and beyond. The report highlights persistent gaps in family planning and adolescent sexual and reproductive health, particularly in remote areas. In spite of deteriorating infrastructure and short-term funding cycles, a number of local initiatives offer promising approaches to fill reproductive health gaps.

A Practical Guide for Programme Officers