strengthen national response to humanitarian crises
Commitment description:The government, through its relevant institutions, is committed to strengthening search and rescue mechanisms, providing all necessary humanitarian assistance, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to the entire population in emergency or need situations, ensuring permanent monitoring and support until normality is restored.
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionTo this end, the government commits to maintain the National Civil Protection Unit, created for search and rescue operations and an emergency fund to ensure the permanent availability of financial resources for emergency situations.
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.
