Case Studies

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) aimed to increase contraceptive use in Nigeria’s Borno State, where under-resourced health clinics failed to meet the SRH needs of women and girls. The IRC scaled up contraceptive use by introducing highly skilled staff, securing essential supplies, engaging community volunteers, and training both traditional birth attendants and government health workers.

Save the Children leveraged buy-in from the World Health Organization and Yemen’s Ministry of Health to strengthen syndromic case management for the large number of Yemenis requiring treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

The International Rescue Committee combined quality health services and community engagement strategies to ensure that in-need patients in the northwest districts of Uganda, including an influx of South Sudanese refugees, received comprehensive SRH and HIV care.

Emory University’s Center for Humanitarian Emergencies interviewed 10 Nicaraguan women ages 16-23 who experienced unintended pregnancies. One of these women, Ana Maria, shared her experiences of rape and the physical and mental effects of unsafe abortion.

Lacking care for newborns in South Sudan prompted Save the Children and UNICEF to study barriers to quality newborn care and supplies, health workers’ attitudes toward newborn care practices, and communities’ understandings of risky symptoms in newborns.

JSI led programming that mobilized a team of female community health care volunteers and staff, who distributed chlorhexidine to reduce infant mortality after Nepal’s 2015 earthquake.

Responsible for managing health centers in three Rwandan refugee camps, Alight, formerly the American Refugee Committee, follows a hierarchical referral system for patients requiring antenatal care, linking refugee mothers to EmONC services in host country MOH facilities.

Ipas led service assessments, equipment and medication supply chain evaluations, and capacity building workshops to establish menstrual regulation and post-abortion care services for displaced women in Bangaldesh. These more robust, scaled-up abortion care services created opportunities for women to more openly discuss relevant SRH issues.

An organization working in a crisis-affected Asian country conducted values clarification and attitude transformation exercises to increase the quality of abortion services provided by private providers. Confidentiality, referrals made in one-on-one settings, and on-the-job misoprostol and manual vacuum aspiration training helped to strengthen safe abortion care.