Zimbabwe committing to ensuring basic humanitarian needs of affected populations, including SRHR, are addressed during humanitarian and environmental crises responses.
Commitment description:• Ensure emergency preparedness across all relevant sectors, by 2030;
• Build or strengthen coordination structures for preparedness and response to emergencies ;
• Support strengthening of the Civil Protection Unit to coordinate humanitarian actors to
prioritise Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Gender Based Violence in
humanitarian situations
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionEnsure emergency preparedness across all relevant sectors, by 2030; Build or strengthen coordination structures for preparedness and response to emergencies;
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts(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.
