The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Girls - UNFPA

2) Provide technical assistance on best practices:
• Strive for 50 per cent women participants in training;
• Give preference to staff <strong>of</strong> UNFPA’s NGO partners;
• Promote use <strong>of</strong> the Inter-agency Field Manual to guide
programmes;
• Facilitate the inclusion <strong>of</strong> reproductive health training in emergencyfocused
master’s-level public health courses, and list universities
<strong>of</strong>fering such courses;
• Support a minimum <strong>of</strong> two courses annually to train reproductive
health specialists and health providers to work in emergency
settings;
• Support a minimum <strong>of</strong> two courses annually to inform UNFPA
national staff about reproductive health issues, including ongoing
use <strong>of</strong> emergency reproductive health kits;
• Identify agencies capable <strong>of</strong> providing reproductive health training,
as determined by need;
• Convene annual meeting <strong>of</strong> educators to review and update
training materials;
• Establish training in psychosocial support and counselling in
response to trauma, specifically for traumatized clients and staff;
• Guide the development <strong>of</strong> proposals that incorporate monitoring,
implementation protocols and evaluation in project design;
• Contract with specific agencies for training for set periods <strong>of</strong> time to
develop local capacity;
• Adapt standardized training materials to be applied locally
(materials such as the IAWG Manual and the Reproductive Health
for Refugees Committee’s five-day training manual can be
downloaded from the Internet) (Annex 4, Resource List);
• Include reproductive health in the primary health care training <strong>of</strong>
local settings; and
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