General Reproductive Health
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Key resources in the General Reproductive Health
category:
Inter-agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings Granada Consensus on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Protracted Crises and Recovery Engaging Boys and Men in GBV Prevention and Reproductive Health in Conflict and Emergency-Response Settings: A Workshop Module A comprehensive list of all resources in the General Reproductive Health category is below. |
, January 2006
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.
, September 2009
This toolkit was developed as a companion to the Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Refugee Settings to help humanitarian program managers and healthcare providers meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents when an emergency strikes, and 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.
, February 2001
An assessment conducted of reproductive health among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Angola from February 15-28, 2001.
This document is a standard form to assess the implementation of the MISP in reproductive healthcare service delivery points.
, September 2001
A study on behalf of the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium concerning reproductive health in Zambia.
, July 2002
A Follow-up Study of the Reproductive Health Literacy Project Among Refugees in Guinea.
, May 2007
A Practical Guide to Beginning and Sustaining Inter-agency Partnerships (updated).
, August 2004
An assessment of the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) of reproductive health services among Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad from April 5-14, 2004.
Also available in French here.
, February 2003
An assessment of reproductive health among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia from November 11-18, 2001.
Spanish Version available here.
, July 2002
An assessment of reproductive health in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from July 1-20, 2002.
The purpose of the assessment was to advocate to and educate United Nations (UN) agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), donors and others to increase conflict-affected people's access to a broad range of quality, voluntary comprehensive reproductive health (RH) services in DRC.
, February 2003
Spanish version - an assessment of reproductive health among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia from November 11-18, 2001. English available here.
, February 2003
An assessment revealing that IDPs suffer a critical lack of access to reproductive health care owing to a number of factors.
, March 2009
A training guide for a 2-day skill-building workshop to introduce 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. This module is appropriate for staff that have had some training in gender, GBV prevention, and reproductive health.
, January 2008
An overview of key facts, messages and resources on Iraqi women, youth and children living as refugees or internally displaced as a result of the conflict.
, 2007
An overview of key facts, messages and resources on general reproductive health.
, September 2009
A consultation on sexual and reproductive health in protracted crisis and recovery was convened in Granada, Spain the 28 to 30th September of 2009, bringing together practitioners directly involved in the provision of services in affected countries, representatives from UN organizations and other humanitarian partners from the Health Cluster, academic experts and donors.
, 2009
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.
, April 2009
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.
, December 2006
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.
, 2007
The IASC issued these Guidelines to enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people's mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency.
Matrix (English)
, September 2009
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.
, 2010
The 2010 Inter-agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings is an update of the 1999 Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-agency Field Manual, the authoritative guidance on reproductive health interventions in humanitarian settings.
The document is available chapter-by-chapter and as a single zip file by following the link above, as well as Arabic, Bahasa, Dari, French and Spanish translations, corrections, details of regional launches and hard copy ordering.
, August 2011
, 2006
The ninth IAWG meeting was held in Sydney, Australia in October 2006. This report summarises the presentations and discussions.
, October 2011
This training is intended for Reproductive Health Assessment (RHA) Toolkit for Conflict Affected Women users. Field staff and independent researchers who use this toolkit should be familiar with survey work, but it is designed to be used by staff with limited survey experience.
, 2007
The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children conducted a two-week field mission to Amman, Jordan in June 2007 to gather information from Iraqi refugee women, men and youth about their reproductive health and other needs.
, August 2004
Assessment of the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) of reproductive health services among Sudanese refugees in Eastern Chad from April 5-14, 2005.
, December 2009
This document summarizes the importance of implementing the MISP at the onset of every emergency, as advocacy messages for policy makers.
, July 2011
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.
The previous version of the module dates back to 2006 and is also available in French, and available here for download in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Bahasa, and Russian.
A Burmese version is available here.
Also available are fact sheets and inserts (English, French, Spanish and Arabic).
A "cheat sheet" is also available in English ((IPPF/Women's Refugee Commission, December 2009)), Arabic (WRC, March 2012),French (UNFPA, March 2010), Spanish, and Bahasa.
The overall purpose of Moving From Emergency Response To Comprehensive Reproductive Health Programs: A Modular Training Series is to provide the members of the health management team with information, resources, and problem-solving techniques to analyze its specific situation and plan future activities for revising, expanding, or starting quality RH services and programs.
A CD-ROM of this manual can be ordered from: CARE, 1625 K Street, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20006, USA rhrc@care.org
, 1997
Including Refugee Leader Questions; Group Discussion Questions; Survey Introduction and Questions; and a Health Facility Questionnaire and Checklist.
, 2007
This document summarizes key facts and messages, including case study snapshots, on reproductive health in emergencies.
, October 2003
The Women's Refugee Commission conducted a reproductive health (RH) assessment focused on the implementation of priority RH activities among Afghan refugees in the Northwest Frontier (NWF), Baluchistan and Punjab provinces of Pakistan from August 2002 through June 2003.
, March 2006
Report detailing a major alternative fuel development program for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal.
, December 2000
This article provides an overview of measures taken to meet refugees reproductive health needs and underlines the gaps that still need to be filled.
, 2005
A global evaluation of reproductive health in conflict settings worldwide covering the issues at the field, agency and global levels. Its purpose is to determine when and where RH services are provided and to identify gaps and constraints so that UN agencies, governments and NGOs can better target resources and interventions.
, 2002
The overall purpose of this Training Manual is to raise awareness of and build support for
RH programming in refugee situations.
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
To order this publication send us an e-mail. Be sure to include the name of the publication you are requesting, along with your mailing address.
, 1998
This report offers the Consortium's view of how best to focus and channel the RH community's efforts in order to accomplish our objectives efficaciously: to meet the RH needs of more than 40 million refugees and internally-displaced persons around the world. Through site visits and various reports we have amassed both strong impressions and data about the state of RHR today. The recommendations we make in this report, suggestions intended to help us move closer to our goal, are based on these subjective field observations as well as on the limited available data.
, August 2003
This document is the second in a series of reports produced by the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, charting progress in the field of reproductive health (RH) service delivery for refugees and internally displaced populations. Following the Women's Refugee Commission report Refugee women and reproductive healthcare: reassessing priorities (1994), the RHRC produced Refugees and reproductive healthcare: the next step (1998). The global decade report charts almost ten years of worldwide conflict and its impact on the RH of those forced to flee.
, October 2003
This is an overview of the work of the Reproductive Health Response in Crises Consortium up to 2003 and their future plans at that time.
, January 2007
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.
, January 2000
A guide for programme managers.
, 2009
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.
, June 2010
In June 2007, the Women's Refugee Commission conducted a field mission to Amman, Jordan to increase international awareness of the reproductive health (RH) needs of men, women and youth in the Iraqi crisis. A follow-up mission was conducted in October 2008 and again in November 2009 to identify progress and remaining gaps in RH programming and to continue to advocate for the implementation of priority and comprehensive RH services for Iraqi refugees.
, August 2010
In February 2007, the Women's Refugee
Commission and (UNFPA) conducted an assessment of the
reproductive health situation in the Kitgum and
Pader Districts of northern Uganda. A key finding
was the lack of access to family planning services
for the Districts' displaced women, men and youth.
In June 2008 and in May 2009, Women's Refugee
Commission staff followed up on the status of
the original assessment report recommendations.
The two-year follow-up mission focused primarily
on the Acholi sub-region of Kitgum, Pader and
Gulu Districts.
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.
, December 2000
In this article, available data (from both published and unpublished sources) are reviewed to determine if and how reproductive health status is affected by refugee or displaced status.
, 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.
, October 2003
This page features a summary of the proceedings, a book of abstracts, and select presentations from the RHRC Consortium Conference held in Brussels, Belgium, October 7-8, 2003.
, December 2000
This page features the proceedings of the RHRC Conference 'Findings On Reproductive Health Of Refugees And Displaced Populations', held in Washington DC, December 5-6, 2000.
, October 2004
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.
This bibliography focuses on material dated after June 2000 and includes abstracts for selected entries.
, 2002
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 facilitator's 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.
, August 2003
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.
, April 2006
In this 2003 assessment, the Women's Refugee Commission took a comprehensive approach to gather and synthesize the numerous studies that have been conducted by local and international agencies in recent years on refugees as well as migrants working and living on the Thai-Burma border. The Women's Refugee Commission hopes that this report and its accompanying annotated bibliography will serve as a resource for other researchers on the border, identify remaining gaps in RH services and research needs, and be a source of information sharing among the many actors working in the region.
, November 2004
A comprehensive bibliography of resources relating to displaced populations on the Thai-Burma border, including abstracts and sorted by theme.
, May 2009
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.
, July 2003
A Practical Guide for Programme Officers. The development of this guide is part of an interdisciplinary policy research for the Belgian Development Co-operation into the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict. The basic assumption of the guide is that sexual and reproductive rights are human rights, and more specifically women's human rights, which are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights. Taking this rights approach as a starting point the promotion and protection of these rights should be considered in all humanitarian relief operations and should be a priority of all SRH programmes.
, June 2007
Reproductive health (RH) assessment among the conflict-affected populations of north- ern Uganda in February 2007. The assessment team visited the districts of Kitgum and Pader and also visited a youth center and clinic in Gulu. In general, the findings revealed that although some basic services were in place, many were sorely lacking.
, 2007
This survey collected population-based data on reproductive health (RH) indicators during the post-conflict/transitional years in Lofa County Liberia. The survey goal is to highlight the critical need to continue funding and building programs during a time when traditional humanitarian aid has ceased and development has not yet begun, leaving the population without essential public health services.
, September 2001
The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children in collaboration with the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium (RHRC)1 conducted an assessment of reproductive health among refugees in Zambia from September 13-24, 2001 on behalf of the RHRC.
