Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health Programs in Humanitarian

Settings: Save the Children's Experiences

Seema Manohar

ASRH in Emergencies Specialistsmanohar@savechildren.org

CORE Fall MeetingOctober 17th, 2013

Presented by: Brad KernerASRH Advisor

Save the Children’s Approach

Emergency Response

Demonstrate how ASRH can be

integrated into an acute emergency

response

Launch of pilot project in DRC

Key partner: SCI, UNFPA, WRC,

UNHCR

Research & Analysis

Document best practices of

access to ASRH information and

services

Key Partners: Women’s Refugee

Commission, UNFPA, UNHCR

Developme

nt of Technical

Tools

ASRH Toolkit in Humanitarian

Settings & E-learning Course

Training partner agencies and emergency

response personnel

Key partner: UNFPA

ASRH Toolkit in Humanitarian

Settings Objective: To providing guidance on what

should be done to ensure that SRH interventions respond to adolescents’ needs in humanitarian settings

Target audience: RH programme managers and

health service providers working in humanitarian settings

Humanitarian programme managers

Other service providers (youth center coordinators, community workers) working in emergencies

What is in the ASRH Toolkit?

Adolescent-inclusive minimum initial service package (MISP) How to make the 5 MISP objectives truly responsive to ASRH needs

Participation tools Adolescent participation Step-by-step exercise for adult and community participation RH entry points in existing adolescent programs

Assessment tools Including an adolescent focus to Initial rapid assessments Guide for Situational analysis focusing on ASRH Comprehensive SRH assessment questions for adolescents in stabilized

emergencies

Facility-based tools Psycho-social assessment (HEADSS ) Adolescent-friendly SRH service checklist

Community-based distribution and peer education tools Peer Education resources Community-based distribution tools

Trainings on the ASRH Toolkit

E-Learning Training on ASRH Toolkit

LINK: http://www.iawg.net/resources/arh-video/player.html

E-Learning Module

Miranda, 16 years old, pregnant

Sabrina, Father, concerned about sexual violence

Johanne, seeking HIV and pregnancy testing

Stephanne, Affected by GBV

Involving youth in improving services

Local Health Workers

Research to Action: Goma, DRC

Christian (18) working on his message for the mural “L’éducation sexuelle n’est pas un tabou’’ (SexEd is

not taboo)

Goma, DRC

Pilot project includes:

Information & service provision through multiple channels

Adolescent mothers’ support groups

Typhoon WASHI, January 2012Philippines

Coordinated with Health Cluster RH Working Group

Mobilized youth volunteers

Trained humanitarian response staff

Ensured youth involvement

“My message to the world: I want the conflict in Syria to end and safety and peace to be restored back to normal as it once was a happy country.” - 14 years oldZa'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan

Regional Response for Syrian Crisis

Syrian CrisisZa’tari Camp, Jordan

Photo Credit: Muhammed Hamed/Reuters

Jordan

Youth Working Group UNICEF, Save the

Children, UNFPA initiated the Youth Working Group to holistically address issues facing youth

Youth Friendly Spaces age-appropriate,

culturally sensitive ASRH information

Lebanon

• Adolescent Mothers Support Groups in health facilities

• Very Young Adolescents (VYAs) • Teen hygiene kits• Integrated into Save the Children’s Emergency

Response Strategy Plan

Iraq

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