About the project

Why a new research agenda for SRHR in humanitarian settings? 

SRHR needs rise sharply during conflict, displacement and climate-related disasters, yet only a fraction of operational questions have been rigorously answered. Earlier global exercises provided an invaluable start, but did not cover newer challenges such as digital self-care, climate resilience or service integration at scale. 

This study involved a fully updated prioritisation exercise spanning nine SRHR Domains and six World Bank regions to steer investments for the next three to five years. 

What is the scope of the prioritisation exercise? 

The agenda spans the full range of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) across nine SRHR domains and three crosscutting domains:
•     Comprehensive sexuality education
•    Sexual health and wellbeing
•    Family planning and contraception
•    Reproductive cancers
•    Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and HIV
•    Maternal and newborn health (antenatal, perinatal, postnatal)
•    Comprehensive abortion care
•    Clinical management of rape
•    Cross-cutting themes include: stakeholder engagement, service delivery and health systems, and climate resilience.

The scope includes humanitarian settings affected by conflict, forced displacement, climate-related emergencies and other crisis conditions. While global in outlook, the focus is on low- and middle income countries (LMIC). 

Only research questions amenable to implementation research were included, i.e., those concerned with how to adapt, deliver, integrate or scale SRHR interventions in real-world humanitarian contexts. Questions solely focused on describing needs or estimating prevalence were excluded, except where such data collection was explicitly positioned as a baseline or implementation input.