This brief describes Save the Children's efforts to integrate family planning and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and offers recommendations for future integrated programming.
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Infirmiers en Action dans le Milieu Rural (IAMR), which translates to Nurses in Action in Rural Areas, works to serve the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs in rural, displaced communities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a region with ongoing conflict and political instability. IAMR’s CEO, Benson Ahmed Hussein, said that the small community-based organization offers a range of SRH services, from contraceptive counseling to delivery kit provisions in local maternity wards. IAMR is committed to working with and empowering particularly marginalized communities, including adolescents, people who engage with transactional sex, and people who have experienced unsafe abortions.
The article unravels the importance of sexuality education for young people as a means towards building their capabilities and contributing to the actualization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
This blog covers the multi-sectoral process undertaken to create the Newborn Roadmap and reflects on the value of creating the IAWG Newborn initiative, as well as recent activities and progress made by the multi-agency partnership. The blog ends with a call to action to President Kaljulaid and other global stakeholders to work with IAWG, the INI, and partners to build upon the agenda that has been prioritized in the Roadmap, to elevate the importance of working within humanitarian settings, and to advance the work already undertaken/promoted by many of us.
The health and protection needs of people affected by conflict or crisis and who are engaged in selling or exchanging sex are often overlooked. This guidance proposes practical actions for different humanitarian settings and phases of intervention.
For over a decade, Resilience Action International (RAI) has been transforming the lives of refugee youth. “Our mission is to empower refugee youth to live to their full potential by increasing opportunities for education, productive livelihoods, and access to reproductive health services,” said Director of Programs Uwezo Ramadhani. To provide continued SRH education amid the COVID-19 pandemic, RAI piloted a podcast series designed to meet refugee youth where they were. This series is part of RAI’s broader approach to exploring virtual SRH education opportunities for young, displaced people living in northern Kenya and Tanzania.