Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 23
23
Accepted
Ensure SRHR services in humanitarian contexts reach marginalised groups through FCDO knowledge-sharing.
Recommendation
The FCDO has made positive progress in tackling sexual and reproductive health in humanitarian contexts, such as by adopting the Minimum Initial Services Package. The FCDO should ensure that SRHR services in these contexts reach the most marginalised groups and consider how to further implement SRHR aid programming in humanitarian contexts to meet need. This should include knowledge- sharing between teams within the FCDO who work on fragile, conflict-affected, and humanitarian contexts and sexual and reproductive health, such as teams working on global health, humanitarian crisis response and the Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation. (Paragraph 86) Diplomatic support for sexual and reproductive health
Government Response Summary
The FCDO agrees, committing to considering SRHR in all humanitarian funding, supporting MISP rollout, ensuring cross-working, and producing a technical guidance note. It states the WISH Dividend programme is designed to prioritise support to fragile states and ensure services reach marginalised groups, and commits to improving knowledge sharing across teams.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
Agree 82. The FCDO has committed to considering SRHR in all our humanitarian funding, and to supporting the rollout of the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) in acute crises. The FCDO ensures cross working from the onset of humanitarian crisis, with dedicated capacity on humanitarian SRHR in global health, working with and alongside humanitarian colleagues. 83. A technical guidance note has been produced within FCDO on SRHR in humanitarian settings, to guide crisis response. When possible, the FCDO works to prioritise SRHR funding in humanitarian crisis including funding on SRHR in Ukraine and in Gaza to reach the most marginalised groups. 84. The WISH programme has operated in fragile and conflict affected countries in Africa since 2018, and WISH Dividend will prioritise support to fragile and conflict affected states, including provision of sexual and reproductive health services in refugee camps, and protracted crisis and humanitarian contexts. The programme has been designed to ensure appropriate expertise and resources are available to ensure services in these contexts can reach young and marginalised women, including the poorest and those with disabilities. 85. Within any organisation, knowledge sharing is invaluable and the FCDO is committed to learning from past experiences and working better across the various teams involved in crisis.