Commitment title:

The right of access to sexual and reproductive health services and the effective handling of sexual and gender-based violence is ensured for populations affected by humanitarian crises

Commitment description:

The State is committed to: - Improving the quality of the registration and profiling of refugees and asylum seekers - Strengthening the data-collection, analysis and dissemination system - Developing and updating sectoral preparedness plans, particularly related to protection and health that integrate sexual and gender-based violence, as well as sexual and reproductive health; - Periodically updating the emergency coordination system by designating sectoral working groups - Contemplating the provision of training on the Minimum Initial Response Package in staff training programmes for health workers The Ministry of Health will provide prevention and care services for victims of sexual and gender-based violence in humanitarian situations, as well as sexual and reproductive health information and care services. It will also ensure an upward revision of the budget allocated (to the health component) during humanitarian crises related to the influx of migrants. In a humanitarian crisis situation, the State will carry out, with the help of its partners, quality targeted interventions aimed at ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health, as well as HIV and AIDS prevention services, and at reducing sexual and gender-based violence. Where appropriate, the State will provide: - Legal and material assistance, as well as psychosocial counselling for all victims; - Access to medical services; - Safety and security for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence; - Care for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Modes of engagement:
  • Budgetary and financial
    Révision à la hausse du budget alloué à la composante santé en cas de crises humanitaires liées à l’afflux de migrants
  • Policy and guidance
    Développement et mise à jour des plans de préparation aux urgences sectoriels
  • Programmatic action
    Système de collecte, analyse et dissémination de données Formation des professionnels sur DMU Coordination avec les différents secteurs concernés Prestation des services de SSR / VSBG
Commitment to be actioned in: Tunisia
Submitted from: Tunisia
Submitted by
Ministère du Développement, de l'Investissement et de la coopération Internationale
Thematic area
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts
Commitment category

(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.