Case Studies

In Thailand’s Tak Province, a team of safe abortion care advocates distributed misoprostol among community-based organizations and held in-depth trainings on the drug’s medical and legal aspects. This network of misoprostol distributers provided safe, effective, and culturally accessible abortions for women in the region.

A network of community-based organizations in northern Thailand improved safe abortion care (SAC) for refugee and migrant women from Burma. Programming included consulting on medical services within legal frameworks, covering patients’ procedure and travel costs, and providing language interpretation, among others.

In eastern Chad, the International Rescue Committee worked with religious leaders to increase awareness of contraceptives, attempting to reach women who turned to these leaders for guidance. Despite some resistance, a committee of spiritual leaders encouraging contraceptive use formed, and providers reported a significant uptick in contraception.

CARE implemented programming to expand contraceptive services available to women in northern Syria. Midwives and nurses at mobile and static health centers provided oral contraceptives, long-acting reversible contraception, and condoms among additional, more comprehensive SRH services.

The International Planned Parenthood Federation engaged adolescents in disaster risk reduction planning in crisis-prone South Asian territories. These adolescents led programming that involved discussing with their peers about safe sex, contraception, and gender-based violence.

Engaging young people in the research, design, and implementation of SRH programming grounded CARE International’s adolescent-focused work in Goma, DRC. CARE worked with youth leaders to evaluate adolescent-relevant services, raise awareness of contraceptive services, and foster an environment that promotes adolescents’ access to SRH services.

CARE monitored implementing partners’ on-the-ground work in Syria by sub-contracting independent evaluation firms who remotely evaluated project progress. These third-party monitoring firms triangulated data from patient interviews, supplies inventories, and clinical records to evaluate implementation from afar.

In eastern DRC, CARE scaled up the capacity of a village-based supplies monitoring initiative to prevent stock outs of essential SRH supplies, including implants, pain medicine, and high-level disinfectant. The initiative’s strengthened inventory management skills improved the quality and uptake of SRH services in crisis-affected settings.

An inter-agency team studied the MISP implementation in Jordan’s Irbid City to evaluate SRH service access for urban refugees. The study revealed lacking SRH services in urban settings, insufficient stakeholder participation, and limited clinical care for patients with STIs and/or histories of sexual violence.