Key Messages and Next Steps

Overview

There is a clear and growing need to address the impact of conflict on women, newborns, children, and adolescents. In particular, there is a need to better understand the current and future landscape of conflict and both its direct and indirect effects on WCH, to further develop the evidence base on effective interventions and delivery strategies to address these effects, and to develop further guidance on prioritizing and packaging WCH interventions in conflict settings while building and supporting disrupted health systems in conflict settings.

Spanning across geographies and informed by insights from a range of humanitarian health actors and civil society organizations active in conflict settings, BRANCH research confirms that much still needs to be done by a range of actors to fill research and guidance gaps, to improve national, regional and international response coordination, and to ultimately improve WCH.