In 2021-2022, UNFPA in the Philippines introduced the Cash for Maternal Health Emergency Fund—designed to facilitate safe pregnancy and delivery—in the conflict-affected Maguindanao province. This report shares program evaluation findings and is intended to provide new evidence to inform planning of maternal health programs with cash components, both in the Philippines and beyond. Read More
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Self-Care for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Humanitarian and Fragile Settings: Barriers, Opportunities and Lessons Learned
This report synthesizes findings and lessons learned from interviews conducted with leading experts working on self-care and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in humanitarian, fragile, and stable settings, including program implementers, researchers, donors, and more. The report describes the current landscape of SRH self-care in humanitarian and fragile settings and aims to inform an ambitious new agenda for the self-care movement for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Read More
Technology-Facilitated Violence Against Women: Taking Stock of Evidence and Data Collection
Based on a scoping study, this paper offers a landscape scan highlighting what is known about technology-facilitated violence against women, who is currently generating this knowledge, and how the evidence is being produced. The paper also highlights some of the related methodological, ethical, and sociopolitical challenges to collecting data on technology-facilitated violence against women. Read More
Partnering with Youth for Impact: Profiles of MOMENTUM Youth Partners From Across the Globe
This document, also available in French, profiles some of MOMENTUM’s dynamic youth partners working across different geographies and contexts in South Asia and West and East Africa. These partners aim to increase health knowledge and demand for health services, shift social and gender norms in their communities, improve access to quality health services, and create adolescent-responsive systems across the humanitarian-development nexus. Read More
A Roadmap for Collective Action to Enhance the Integration of Cash and Voucher Assistance Within Gender-Based Violence Programming in Northwest Syria
This case study (also available in Spanish, French, and Arabic) highlights the practical importance of coordination between cash and voucher assistance and gender-based violence (GBV) actors at all levels and shows how working in silos is detrimental to assisting to the fullest extent possible women and girls affected by GBV. It documents the conditions that led to the creation of a joint taskforce (TF) in Northwest Syria to tackle this gap and the challenges faced by the TF, as well as the programmatic and operational learning from the coordination process. Read More
Integrating Cash Assistance Into Gender-Based Violence Case Management to Support Survivors in Ninewa, Iraq
WRC and partners have developed several resources that contribute to learning on integrating cash voucher assistance within gender-based violence (GBV) programming. This case study (also available in Spanish, French, and Arabic) sheds light on the experiences of Oxfam and WEO during their partnership to implement the integration of cash transfers within GBV case management in Ninewa governorate, Iraq. Read More
