UNFPA has delivered 850 dignity kits for women and girls affected by election-related violence in Enga and Southern Highlands. The kits contain period essentials and hygiene items such as soap and a towel. For displaced persons, or communities isolated by violence, access to these basics can be challenging. The provision of dignity kits is a small step towards ensuring the health and hygiene of women and girls is protected, providing them with dignity and preventing secondary health issues such as infections. 

UNFPA works with partners in the region to ensure these kits reach the affected communities most in need. 300 kits were delivered to the Enga Provincial Health Authority, 300 to Mendi Hospital, and 250 to the Diocese of Mendi. 

Bishop Donald Lippert expressed his gratitude, sharing “many thanks to UNFPA for thinking of our displaced and struggling women at this time.”
The work of our partners, their staff and their volunteers is critical to delivering assistance where it is most needed. UNFPA will be providing further assistance to women and girls affected by conflict in the region with the provision of additional dignity kits and reproductive health kits, including three delivery assistance kits for health care providers that can service up to 30,000 people for 3 months. These additional kits are being procured with support from USAID. 

UNFPA and Humanitarian Response

UNFPA works to ensure women and girls affected by humanitarian events have access to adequate hygiene and sexual and reproductive health supplies and services. In cooperation with partners our response includes the provision of menstrual hygiene supplies to individuals and reproductive health kits, including safe delivery kits, to health care workers.