Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings: 2010 Revision for Field-testing

The 2010 Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings is an update of the 1999 Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-agency Field Manual, written to give guidance on reproductive health interventions in humanitarian settings. It is prepared by the Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG) on Reproductive Health Crises.

The 2010 version provides additional guidance on how to implement the "Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for Reproductive Health", a minimum standard of care in humanitarian response. It also splits the original chapter on "HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)" into two separate chapters to accommodate new guidance on HIV programming. A new chapter on "Comprehensive Abortion Care" has been developed to cover more than post-abortion care. The chapters on "Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation" and "Adolescent Reproductive Health" have been placed earlier in the manual to address the cross-cutting nature of these topics. Information on human rights and legal considerations has been integrated into each of the thematic chapters to ensure that programme staff can address rights-related concerns.

The updated information is based on technical guidance of the World Health Organization. It also reflects the practices documented in crisis settings around the world since the initial field-test version was released in 1996.