Abortion Attitude Transformation: A values clarification toolkit for humanitarian audiences
Abortion by trained providers is a safe and common procedure, legal under at least one condition in nearly every country in the world. Yet women and girls living in humanitarian settings often cannot get this essential reproductive health service—even when it’s available to other women in a country hosting refugees.
That’s why Ipas produced this online toolkit specifically for fragile and conflict-affected settings, designed to give humanitarian audiences the chance to explore their values, attitudes and knowledge related to abortion—with the goal of helping close the service-delivery gap in abortion care in humanitarian settings.
This toolkit is designed to be a flexible resource that can serve training needs for a variety of audiences and settings. It is not a structured curriculum, but rather a collection of activities and materials that can be used individually or in combination, based on the timing and agenda of individual workshops as needed.
Read more about why we created this toolkit
In this toolkit
Introduction
Values clarification for humanitarian audiences
Plan your training
Plan your training: An overview of toolkit materials, plus tips and resources for trainers
Sample agendas:
- One-day agenda
- Two-day agenda
PowerPoints for workshop flow:
- One-day workshop slides
- Two-day workshop slides
Worksheet: Calculate how many printed materials you need
Certificate of completion
Evaluate your impact
Workshop feedback form
Pre- and post-workshop evaluation
Instructional PowerPoints
Overview of unsafe abortion
Abortion care 101
Making the case for abortion in humanitarian settings
Activities
Reasons why
- Facilitator guide
- Participant handout: Questions
Cross the line
- Facilitator guide
Thinking about my values
- Facilitator guide
- Participant worksheet
Why did she die?
- Facilitator guide
- Participant handout
Personal beliefs and professional responsibilities
- Facilitator guide
- Small-group facilitator handout
- Participant handout
Four corners
- Facilitators guide
- Participant handout
- Wall signs
Talking about abortion
- Facilitator guide
The last abortion
- Facilitator guide
- Participant handout
Comfort continuum
- Facilitator guide
- Wall signs
Facilitating dialogue
- Facilitator guide
- Participant handout: Stories
Closing reflections
- Facilitator guide
- Participant worksheet