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Maternal/Newborn Care

Family in tsunami-affected Aceh, Indonesia.

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Maternal & Newborn Health

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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.
  • Assessment Document for MISP Implementation
  • 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.
  • Emergency Obstetric Care: Critical Need among Populations Affected by Conflict
    Source: Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, March 2004
  • Emergency Obstetric Care: Project Impact Report
    Source: RHRC Consortium, April 2006
  • Emergency Obstetric Care: Resources and Tools, Averting Maternal Death and Disability
    Source: Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
    This link provides further resources. Below are some of the key resources developed by the AMDD program:
    • Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Infection Prevention: A Reference Booklet for Health Care Providers PDF File
    • The Design and Evaluation of Maternal Mortality Programs PDF File
    • AMDD Workbook: Using the UN Process Indicators of Emergency Obstetric Services, Question and Answers
  • Emergency Obstetrics Overview
    Source: Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
  • Fact Sheet on Emergency Obstetric Care
    Source: Raise Initiative, 2007
  • Fact Sheet on Unsafe Abortion
    Source: Raise Initiative, 2007
  • Field-friendly Guide to Integrate Emergency Obstetric Care in Humanitarian Programs
    Source: Produced by the Women's Refugee Commission on behalf of RHRC, July 2005
    Also available in French, Spanish, and Arabic. To see the latest technical guidance, please consult the 2010 revised Inter-agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings.
  • 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.
  • Minimum Initial Services Package (MISP) for Reproductive Health in Crisis Situations: A Distance Learning Module
    Source: Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, September 2006
    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.

    Online module also available in French. Full module available here for download in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Bahasa, and Russian.

    Also available are fact sheets and inserts (English, French, Spanish and Arabic).

    A "cheat sheet" is also available in English ((IPPF/Women's Commission, December 2009)), French (UNFPA, March 2010), Spanish, and Bahasa.

  • 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.
  • Strengthening Safe Motherhood Services - Tanzania,
    Source: UNHCR, November 1998