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Humanitarian Setting

An estimated 35 million women and girls of reproductive age are living in crisis settings around the world. Whether displaced by human conflict or extreme weather events caused by climate change, these people often find themselves displaced or living in refugee camps for years—sometimes decades. And Ethiopia is one of the countries who are currently facing the worst of these situations, with Nearly 5 million people internally displaced. And some of the main contributing factors include ongoing armed conflicts, political unrest, and climate crises such as extreme drought and. The UNOCHA reported an urgent need of assistance to 21 million people in Ethiopia including food due to the compounding effect of the crises.
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Intervention in Northern Ethiopia

We have documented our intervention in Northern Ethiopia where we supported the health system for re-establishing basic health services and partnered with a local CSO to implement SGBV work.
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Reports indicated that women and girls living in IDP centres are subjected to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and the survivors are often stigmatized and rejected by their community and suffer from psychological trauma of the violence.

Ipas Ethiopia partnered with civil society organizations (CSOs) and regional health bureaus where crises happened to provide basic SRH services at public health facilities and create and strengthen social support for SGBV survivors, set up referral network for required services, and educate the community to protect women and reject violence against them.

Our support to the health system during humanitarian crises includes training of health care providers on provision of abortion, contraception, and other SRH services by incorporating trauma-informed care approach; provision of essential supplies and commodities targeting women and girls in IDP centres; provision of technical support on supportive supervision.

We provide sub-grant to local CSOs to implement community level interventions for revitalizing community education, establish referral network to health facilities and safe houses; establish community support to survivors of SGBV. We support our humanitarian intervention with evidence generation by conducting focused research