Improved resilience of individuals and systems – at community, national and international levels – to meet the full range of SRH needs of diverse crisis-affected populations, from preparedness to response and recovery
Commitment description:The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) commits to define and address global gaps in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights in humanitarian settings, including: minimum standards and the transition from the minimum initial services package (MISP) to comprehensive SRH; the neglected technical areas of contraception and logistics and supplies; and the inclusion of marginalized populations, including adolescents.
To achieve this commitment, the WRC will: undertake implementation research on contraceptive service delivery and advocate for increased attention to and funding for contraceptive services across crises; develop, disseminate, and advocate for evidence-based recommendations to improve SRH commodity security in crisis settings; and, undertake research and evidence-based advocacy around the SRH needs of adolescents, including the incidence and drivers of child marriage and interventions to prevent and mitigate the effects of child marriage.
The WRC commits to facilitate local and national resilience building by researching and advocating for community-based models of service delivery, strengthening community preparedness for gender and SRH, and researching and advocating at the national level for preparedness, response, and recovery.
To achieve this commitment, the WRC will: conduct research and advocacy, and provide technical assistance, to support the government in Borno State, Nigeria to provide community-based reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition services to displaced and host populations; fundraise to pilot and document the safety and feasibility of community-based clinical care for sexual violence survivors, with the end-goal of advocating to change global guidance in line with research findings; and collaborate with implementing agencies to advance efforts to assess community capacity and build community resilience for comprehensive SRH.
Modes of engagement:
- Policy and guidanceThe Women's Refugee Commission conducts research to identify solutions and advocate for programs and policies to strengthen the resilience of crisis-affected women, children, and youth and drive change in humanitarian practice.
- Programmatic actionThe Women's Refugee Commission conducts research to identify solutions and advocate for programs and policies to strengthen the resilience of crisis-affected women, children, and youth and drive change in humanitarian practice.
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.
