The Regional Reproductive Health and Rights Coalition (RRHRC)

Coalition Building

The Regional Reproductive Health and Rights Coalition (RRHRC) was launched during the Regional Conference “Bringing the WHO Recommendations on Safe Abortion and Family Planning Closer to Women in Countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia” on 16 November 2018, coalition formation supported by the SAAF project (Safe Abortion Action Fund). The Coalition was launched by professionals and SCOs members from 12 countries from Eastern Europe and Central Asia who attended the Conference and unanimously voted the necessity to create this regional body, in order to unify the efforts and advocate for sexual and reproductive rights and universal access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including sexual health education, contraception and safe abortion.

The GOAL of the Coalition is to promote, fulfill and advance sexual and reproductive rights for people in EECA and achieve universal access to quality Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services, including to safe abortion and family planning.

Mission

The mission of Regional RHR Coalition is to promote, respect and advance Sexual and Reproductive Rights (SRR), universal access to comprehensive SRH services, including to safe abortion, to align them to WHO recommendations, focusing on the needs of women and men in Countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Objectives

1. To strengthen the regional collaboration and networking among the countries’ professional associations and SCOs, create a platform for permanent communication, dialogue and common understanding of SRRH.
2. To increase stakeholders’ knowledge on SRHR, by sharing evidence-based information, standards and guidelines to inform and improve policy, programmes and practices.
3. Serve as a source of information in Russian about latest scientific development in the SRR field, stimulate the clinical trials in the region.
4. Support the development of evidence-based guidelines, protocols, training curricula, on SRHR, including on safe abortion.
5. Accelerate the implementation of WHO recommendations on modern methods of contraception and safe abortion in countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
6. Advocate for access to safe and quality abortion care, including to medical abortion, for it’s de-medicalization, de-centralization, support the development of alternative ways of service delivery, such as telemedicine medical abortion, etc.
7. To protect the legality of abortion and access to safe abortion in the region.
8. Support introductory and promotion of the quality assured supplies and medicines for MVA and Medical abortion, modern contraceptives, such a LARC, equal access to them for all women and girls.

For more information, visit the Coalition’s website: https://www.site.cidsr.md/