Annual SPRINT stakeholder and review meeting ... SPRINT:

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SPRINTSession 1 Where have we come from and
where are we now?

• TRAN Nguyen-Toan, MD
• IAWG Meeting
• 8-10 October 2007
• Nairobi

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What isSPRINT?

• Sexual and Reproductive Health PRogramme IN
  Crisis and PosT-Crisis Situations in East
  South-East Asia Pacific

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SPRINT Goal

• To increase access to SRH information and
  services for populations surviving crisis and
• living in post-crisis situations
• in East South-East Asia Pacific

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SPRINT 5 Objectives

• To increase the regional capacity of key
  stakeholders
• gtgt Trainings of Trainers
• - 5-day ToTs on MISP East-SE Asia, Aus-NZ,
  Pacific Islands
• - MISP echo trainings by master trainers in their
  respective countries
• - Translation of MISP DL Module into at least
  Bahasa Indonesian, Vietnamese (/- Chinese)
• Link with Womens Commission webpage to offer
  electronic updates to trainees
• - Annual SPRINT stakeholder and review meeting
• 2. To strengthen the coordination of SRH
  responses in crisis situations gtgt SPRINT
  Secretariat

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SPRINT 5 Objectives (Contd)

• 3. To raise awareness on SRH in crisis at
  national regional level
• - University of New South Wales Action research,
  ME
• - Australian RH Alliance Advocacy Work with
  parliamentarians
• 4. To respond in a timely fashion to SRH needs
• in crisis situations
• 5. To enhance access to SRH information and
  services for populations surviving and living in
  protracted post-crisis situations

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Expected outcomes

• 1. Increased regional capacity of key
  stakeholders to respond to crisis and post-crisis
  situations
• 2. Coordinated emergency and post-emergency
  responses in SRH (at least 6 emergency and 3
  post-emergency sites)
• 3. Integration of SRH into regional and national
  emergency response agenda
• 4. Availability of access to SRH information and
  services for concerned populations

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Whats innovative about the SPRINT?

• First regional initiative to address SRH in
  crisis,
• country by country
• Action research and ME building evidence on SRH
  in crisis
• Advocacy involvement of Parliamentarian groups
• National and regional emergency relief agencies
  (government NGOs) integrate SRH into their aid
  responses
• IPPF will expand its development agenda to
  embrace emergency relief in SRH
• Bridging the gap between immediate relief and
  development by the grassroots presence and early
  involvement of IPPF Member Associations in
  emergency responses
• gt continuum between emergency and development

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Who are the partners?

• UNFPA (Humanitarian Relief Unit)
• University of New South Wales School of Public
  Health
• The Australian Reproductive Health Alliance
  (ARHA)
• IAWG
• Key emergency relief and SRH agencies
• Selected IPPF Member Associations

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SPRINT Timeline

• Mobilisation activities 1 September 30
  November 2007
• Project launch 1 December 2007
• - Kuala Lumpur ToT 25 29 February 2008
• - Sydney ToT 31 March 4 April 2008
• - Fiji ToT 7 April 11 April 2008
• Project end 15 December 2010

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THANK YOU!
Its a marathon!...
nttran_at_ippfeseaor.org