Sea-change in reproductive health in emergencies

How systemic improvements to address the Misp were achieved

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3972245
AutoresSandra K Krause (Women's Refugee Commission), Sandra Krause (0000-0001-8415-1970, Women's Refugee Commission, autor correspondente), Sarah K Chynoweth (0000-0001-7111-9867, Women's Refugee Commission), Mihoko Tanabe (0000-0002-9898-9317, Women's Refugee Commission)
Ano2017
Volume25
Fascículo51
Páginas7-17
Data de publicação2017-11-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReproductive Health Matters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0968-8080 • E-ISSN: 1460-9576
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09688080.2017.1401894
PMID29233076
OpenAlexW2772322937
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas4

The Minimum Initial Services Package (MISP) for reproductive health has been the minimum standard for reproductive health service provision in humanitarian emergencies since 1995. Assessments of acute humanitarian settings in 2004 and 2005 revealed few MISP services in place and low knowledge of the MISP among humanitarian responders. Just 10 years later, assessments of humanitarian settings in 2013 and 2015 found largely consistent availability of MISP services and high awareness of the MISP as a standard among responders. We describe the multi-pronged strategy undertaken by the Women's Refugee Commission and other Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG) member agencies to effect systemic improvements in the availability of the MISP at the onset of humanitarian responses. We find that investments in fact-finding missions, awareness-raising, capacity development, policy harmonisation, targeted funding, emergency risk management, and community resilience-building have been critical to facilitating a sea-change in reproductive health responses in acute, large-scale emergencies. Efforts were underpinned by collaborative, inter-agency partnerships in which organisations were committed to working together to achieve shared goals. The strategies, activities, and achievements contain valuable lessons for the health sector, including reproductive health, and other sectors seeking to better integrate emerging or marginalised issues into humanitarian action

Environmental health · Medical emergency · Political science · Population · Reproductive health · Health and Conflict Studies · Medicine