The Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium consists of CARE, the International Committee of the Red Cross, John Snow Research and Training, Marie Stopes International, and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. The consortium hosted a technical meeting in New York in April 1997 for field workers and representatives of nongovernmental organizations and UN agencies. The consortium's "Refugee Reproductive Health: Guide to Needs Assessment and Evaluation" has been field-tested in more than 12 refugee sites during the past year. Feedback from the evaluation was used to prepare five reproductive health tools for use in refugee situations: questions for refugee leaders, group discussion questions for refugee men and women, health facility questionnaire and checklist, and two surveys. The participants of the technical meeting revised the tools which will soon be made available. In several countries with significant refugee populations, the consortium plans to review reproductive health programs to determine what progress has been made and what barriers still exist. Potential sites for the study are Armenia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guinea, Kenya, Lebanon, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the Thai/Burma border, the former Yugoslavia, and Zaire.

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