SRHR and GBV care in humanitarian programming
Commitment description:Danish Red Cross commits to integrate Sexual and Reproductive Health and GBV care components including mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian programming in general, and with a particular focus on basic service packages for displaced populations in East and West Africa.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionIntegration of SRHR and GBV care in humanitarian programming and for displaced populations
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.
