RAISE Training

Family Planning Clinical Training

FP Training Manuals

English:

- Participant Guide 2.5mb

- Trainer Guide 1.7mb

Arabic:

- Participant Guide 0.9mb

- Trainer Guide 2.2mb

- Reference Guide 1.3mb

Planning families and spacing births can preserve the health and save the lives of women and children by preventing untimely and unwanted pregnancies, reducing women's exposure to the health risks of childbirth and abortion, and giving women more time to care for themselves and for their children. The rights of refugees and IDPs to family planning (FP) were recognised at the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994. Specifically, the ICPD recognised the rights of all couples to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have access to the information, education, and means necessary to do so.

In emergency situations, the provision of FP services poses special challenges:

The disruption of health infrastructure may limit access to reproductive health (RH) services, including FP services.
Clients who are displaced or mobile may have difficulty adhering to methods that require daily dosing, and they may lack access to health facilities for injections or replenishment of pill supplies.
Supply chain issues may limit the availability of certain methods.
Providers who are affected by high client volumes and limited resources may deprioritise FP.

Despite these and other challenges, it is important that clients who are already using FP can continue to have access to methods during an acute emergency and that once the situation stabilises, FP methods and services are available to all clients who request them.

Clinical Training for Reproductive Health in Emergencies: Family Planning serves as a reference guide for FP service providers working in emergency and crisis-affected settings. It is meant to be a companion to the World Health Organization's Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers.

These manuals, which are available for download, are intended to be used in a comprehensive training setting complete with clinical supervision and follow- up.

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