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Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC)
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The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) is creating a better world for refugees. WRC catalyzes transformative change to protect and empower women, children, and youth displaced by conflict and crisis.
WRC has been instrumental in putting many of the issues facing refugees on the humanitarian agenda. We continue to be at the forefront of efforts to ensure the rights of refugee women, children, and youth are respected.
Commitments made to:
Vision
WRC will build global commitment and catalyze investment in contraceptive services for crisis-affected populations by leveraging the findings and recommendations from a two-year landscaping assessment of contraception.
Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) Commitment Narratives
- Develop a suite of publications to catalyze commitment to improving contraceptive availability and access in crisis-affected settings.
- Improve community members’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices around family planning (FP) use, including marginalized groups.
- Train community mobilizers to conduct household visits, awareness sessions, and FP campaigns.
- Convene orientation sessions for community leaders to advance support for FP.
- Provide targeted messaging through focus group discussions.
- Reach approximately 40,000 people in Sudan and 24,320 people in Pakistan.
- Improve health providers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices around FP provision, including marginalized groups.
- Conduct training and values clarification and attitude transformation workshops for health providers.
- Increase knowledge of the full range of FP methods and strengthen rights-based FP counseling.
- Address misconceptions, promote voluntarism, and improve provider attitudes.
- Train 52 health providers in total (27 in Sudan and 25 in Pakistan).
- Rehabilitate on-site clinics to enable provision of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs).
- Provide FP services, including emergency contraception (EC) and LARCs, to approximately 11,929 clients in Sudan.
- Organize weekly medical camps in Afghan refugee settlements to provide FP services to approximately 12,800 clients in Pakistan.
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