Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)

HRP: 50 Years of Achievement

For over 50 years, the Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) has pursued a vision of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. This timeline captures a small number of HRP’s many achievements.

SRHR resource finder

Find the right WHO and HRP tools to help you in your work to advance health, rights and gender equality for all.

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Universal Health Coverage Learning by Sharing Portal

The WHO and UNFPA Portal equips multiple stakeholders with the necessary evidence and “how to” tools to advance the SRH-UHC integration agenda.

Strengthening health sector response to gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies

Gender-based violence (GBV) increases in humanitarian emergencies due to heightened risks and reduced protection, particularly for women and girls.

Global Database on the Prevalence of Violence Against Women

This interactive data visualization platform presents the first global, regional and country/area estimates on intimate partner violence and global and regional estimates on non-partner sexual violence in the United Nations Sustainable Goals era (2015-2030). These Violence against Women, 2018 estimates draw on population-based, nationally or sub-nationally representative surveys/studies conducted between 2000-2018 from 161 countries and areas.

FGM Prevention and care: a resource kit for the health sector

A collection of tools and guidance for countries to develop and implement health sector programmes on FGM according to their needs – so that every girl or woman at risk of FGM, or who has already undergone this harmful practice, gets the care and services she needs.

FGM Cost Calculator

The WHO FGM Cost Calculator estimates the current and projected financial health care costs associated with FGM in specific countries, as well as the potential cost savings to health systems of reducing new cases of FGM.

WHO’s Programme Reporting Standards for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

Interactive checklist to be used by SRMNCAH programmes.

Antenatal and Postnatal Care Resource Portal

The WHO/HRP online resource portal for antenatal care (ANC) holds relevant evidence and tools related to the WHO’s ANC recommendations, including the qualitative and quantitative evidence-base, and tools and documents to support country adaptation and implementation. In the future it will serve as launching platform for the ANC Smart guidelines and will be updated as new resources become available. The portal’s goal is to increase access to ANC related-evidence (for policy-makers, health workers, and women) and will be a key link between these users and SRH’s Living guideline approach.

Uncovering the true burden of maternal morbidity

A better understanding of the extent of maternal morbidity is needed so that it can be both recognised and effectively addressed by countries and health systems. In recognition of this need, WHO has launched a new tool to help health professionals and researchers better monitor and measure this burden – the WHO Maternal Morbidity WOICE Tool.

Optimizing health worker roles for maternal and newborn health

An interactive tool aiming to rationalize the distribution of tasks and responsibilities among cadres of health workers in maternal and newborn health.

Maternal Mortality Rate Country Progress Calculator

This tool enables users to calculate what Annual Rate of Reduction (ARR) is needed in any given country to reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal for maternal mortality.

Global Maternal and Neonatal Sepsis Initiative

A website dedicated to empowering healthcare providers to suspect, treat and prevent sepsis in women and newborns.

WHO Concise Guide to Implementing and Scaling up FP Service Improvements

The guide summarizes learning from various scale up approaches and tools into one interactive online guide. Links to the original resources provide users an easy way to access reference materials while at the same time facilitating use of the guide in an interactive format.

Postpartum Family Planning Compendium

The tool provides tailored recommendations for postpartum contraceptive methods based on information entered about a woman’s medical condition and other characteristics.

Abortion care guideline

The objective of this guideline is to present the complete set of all WHO recommendations and best practice statements relating to abortion. While legal, regulatory, policy and service-delivery contexts may vary from country to country, the recommendations and best practices described in this document aim to enable evidence-based decision-making with respect to quality abortion care. This guideline updates and replaces the recommendations in all previous WHO guidelines on abortion care.

Global Abortion Policies Database

The Global Abortion Policies Database is designed to further strengthen global and national efforts to realize access to safe abortion by producing an interactive open-access database and repository of current abortion laws, policies, and national standards and guidelines.

Sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV linkages toolkit

This simple-to use toolkit will guide you to the most recent, relevant and important SRHR and HIV linkages resources to meet your needs.

SRHR Data Portal

This data portal brings together internationally verified data for 120 indicators relating to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) throughout the life course and including self-care interventions for health. It contains SRHR country profiles with infographics on key data, global targets and trends for 194 countries, and allows for country level comparison through maps, charts and tables.