At the beginning of an irrigation project in the Kou Valley of Burkina Faso, for example, planners concluded that social and health services should be in place before the project began. DHS data suggest that migrant communities are not as well served as other areas. Refugee camps may be located far from hospitals and clinics. In other cases new services are needed. For example, a program in the Adana region of Turkey reached some 24,000 seasonal migrant farm workers and their families by operating from mobile vans.
Programs also can reach out to refugees living in camps.
Marie Stopes International has run employment-based reproductive health care projects for refugees and migrants in Bangladesh, Malawi, Madagascar, and elsewhere.