The SPRINT Initiative: Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Programme in Crisis and Post-Crisis Situations in East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Objectives
The objective of the 3-year pilot programme is to increase access to Sexual Reproductive Health services and information to communities in humanitarian settings throughout the Asia Pacific region. SPRINT works to increase regional capacity to coordinate and implement the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for Reproductive Health, and supports advocacy to governments and organisations to integrate Sexual Reproductive Health into their emergency response plans.
Activities
The key activities include regional training of trainers; national echo trainings; coordination with key health and relief agencies; regional and national level advocacy to politicians and policy makers; technical assistance and dissemination of information to professionals in humanitarian settings; and establishing a body of evidence on SRH in crisis and post crisis situations.
Since the programme began in 2007:
In the Asia and Pacific region SPRINT has trained over 3,900 people in 18 countries and 76 in-country trainings have been rolled out. The success of these trainings has lead to SPRINT regional trainings being rolled out in the Africa and Middle East and North Africa regions in partnership with UNHCR and UNFPA.
SPRINT trainees worked to coordinate the implementation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in the following crises: Bangladesh (Cyclone Alia), China (Sichuan earthquake), India (Cyclone Alia), Indonesia (West Sumatera earthquake), Myanmar (Cyclone Nargis), Philippines (Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng), Sri Lanka (2009 conflict) and Vietnam (Typhoon Ondoy).
SPRINT is supporting implementation of Sexual and Reproductive Health service provision in the protracted, conflict-affected areas of Southern Thailand, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia and the border of Timor Leste and Indonesia.
Progress has been made to integrate Sexual and Reproductive Health into National Emergency Preparedness Plans in China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste and Vietnam.
Management
The Initiative’s activities are carried out by UNFPA and other UN agencies, IPPF member associations, Ministries of Health as well as international and local relief organisations. The Initiative is coordinated by IPPF-ESEAOR through a secretariat at the Regional Office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in partnership with the University of New South Wales, the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance and UNFPA.
Around 84% of the SPRINT budget is allocated to organisational capacity building and implementation of the Sexual and Reproductive Health services in humanitarian settings. Other activities such as research, Monitoring and Evaluation are carried out by University of New South Wales and account for 5% of the total budget. The Australian Reproductive Health Alliance focuses on the advocacy component also through 5% of the budget. Both UNFPA and the Interagency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crisis Situations (IAWG) contribute to the SPRINT Initiative with valuable technical and operational support.
SPRINT Budget Distribution by Activity
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