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Youth in Conflict_ Brad Kerner_10.17.13
1. Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive
Health Programs in Humanitarian
Settings: Save the Children's
Experiences
CORE Fall Meeting
October 17th, 2013
Presented by:
Brad Kerner
ASRH Advisor
Seema Manohar
ASRH in Emergencies Specialist
smanohar@savechildren.org
2. Save the Children’s Approach
Development
of Technical
Tools
ASRH Toolkit in
Humanitarian Settings
&
E-learning Course
Training partner
agencies and
emergency response
personnel
Key partner: UNFPA
Research &
Analysis
Emergency
Response
Document best
practices of access
to ASRH information
and services
Demonstrate how
ASRH can be
integrated into an
acute emergency
response
Key Partners:
Women’s Refugee
Commission, UNFPA,
UNHCR
Launch of pilot project
in DRC
Key partner: SCI,
UNFPA, WRC, UNHCR
3. 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
4. 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
8. 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)
9. Goma, DRC
Pilot project includes:
Information & service
provision through
multiple channels
Adolescent mothers’
support groups
10. Typhoon WASHI, January 2012
Philippines
Coordinated with Health
Cluster RH Working Group
Mobilized youth volunteers
Trained humanitarian
response staff
Ensured youth
involvement
11. Regional Response for Syrian
Crisis
“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 old
Za'atari Refugee
Camp in Jordan
13. 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
14. Lebanon
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Adolescent Mothers Support Groups in health facilities
Very Young Adolescents (VYAs)
Teen hygiene kits
Integrated into Save the Children’s Emergency Response
Strategy Plan
Very few practical guidelines exist on how to address ASRH in humanitarian settings in a youth-friendly wayThere are resources for addressing RH in emergencies and resources for addressing ASRH in development settings, but not for ASRH in emergencies address ASRH in humanitarian settings in a youth-friendly way
The package offers comprehensive guidance, but the tools can stand alone
- 5 live trainings have taken place with a total of 75 participants.
Piloting a model ASRH project in Goma, DRC based on findings and recommendations of the project funded by UNHCR.
Information & service provision through a Youth Center, linked to a health facilityInformation dissemination through in-school peer educators and theater-group for out-of-school and community activitiesAdolescent mothers’ support groups to ensure pregnant adolescents receive ANC and PNC services and plan for delivery in a facility.
Coordinated with Health Cluster to be youth-inclusive; coordinated with UNFPA to address ASRH concerns within RH Working Group and collect age-disaggregated dataCoordinated with UNFPA to mobilize youth volunteers to provide peer to peer education and referral to servicesSensitized humanitarian response staff on ASRH threats including GBV, transactional sex, STI transmission and unwanted pregnancies Ensured youth involvement with UNFPA on variety of camp activities, including kits distribution, registration, assisting with medical missions, etc.
Za’atari Camp & Host Communities Currently close to 120,000 refugees in Za’atari Camp and almost double that number who live in host communities Youth Working Group UNICEF, Save the Children, UNFPA initiated the Youth Working Group to holistically address issues facing youth including ASRH ASRH Programs through AFS & YFSSimilar to Child Friendly Spaces, Save the Children has set up Adolescent Friendly and Youth Friendly Spaces. In these spaces, adolescents receive age-appropriate, culturally sensitive ASRH information on puberty, menstrual hygiene, early marriage and pregnancy, GBV and HIV/STIs.
* Started Adolescent Mothers Support Groups in health facilities* Integrating ASRH information sessions for Very Young Adolescents (VYAs) in Child Friendly Spaces * CDC funded research to examine unique needs and risks of VYAs of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and use findings to design ASRH programs during an active emergency* Distribution of teen hygiene kits with age-appropriate essential items such as underwear, headscarves, sanitary napkins, soap, etc. * ASRH is fully integrated into Lebanon’s Emergency Response Strategy Plan
Most recent country program to integrate youth programming into emergency response:Plan to start ASRH education in YFSTargeted programming for young mothers and adolescent girls living in female-headed households.Developed a youth response strategy in which youth is mainstreamed across all Save the Children emergency sectors Distribution of teen hygiene kits