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Annual Report

UNFPA 2007

Annual Report

The UNFPA Annual Report 2007 highlights UNFPA's support to 159 developing and transition countries and territories in their efforts to empower women and men to make the choices necessary to better their lives, improve reproductive and sexual health, reduce maternal death, promote HIV prevention, address unmet needs for family planning, advance effective population policies and alleviate poverty.

UNFPA 2006

Annual Report

The UNFPA Annual Report 2006 highlights UNFPA’s efforts throughout the year assisting 154 developing and transition countries and territories to empower women and men to make the choices necessary to improve their lives, improve reproductive and sexual health, reduce maternal death, promote HIV prevention, address unmet needs for family planning, advance effective population policies and alleviate poverty.

UNFPA 2005

Annual Report

The UNFPA Annual Report 2005 showcases efforts by Fund to improve reproductive health, ensure safe motherhood, address population issues, prevent HIV and help people in crises. The report highlights examples of UNFPA's work in each of these fields--demonstrating how it is making a difference in the lives of individuals and families in every region of the world. It also presents facts and figures about our work, including details of the contributions that UNFPA received from a record 172 donor countries in 2005, and on the kinds of projects that are supported by this generous funding.

UNFPA 2001

Annual Report

Working with both women and men, we continued the effort during 2001 to eliminate violence against women and the discrimination that limits the potential of individuals and nations. Our role in human development, mandated by the United Nations and globally endorsed at the ICPD, is to improve the reproductive health of women, men and young people in the poorest countries?and in so doing, to bring about a more equitable world.

Declarations and Statements

Glion Call to Action on Family Planning and HIV/AIDS in Women and Children 3-5 May 2004

The linkages between reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention and care must be strengthened in order to achieve internationally agreed development goals. United Nations agencies have initiated a series of consultations to identify ways to build and reinforce these linkages. This Glion Call to Action reflects the consensus of the first consultation in May 2004 which focused on the linkage between family planning and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. The call is set within the context of the objectives and actions agreed at the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

New York Call to Commitment: Linking HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health

This document reflects the consensus of a high-level global consultation on linking HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health in June 2004. Participants included ministers, parliamentarians, ambassadors, leaders of United Nations and other multilateral agencies, donor organization officials, community and nongovernmental organization leaders, young people, and people living with HIV.

Position Statement on Condoms and HIV Prevention

This brief document on Condoms and HIV prevention issued by UNFPA, UNAIDS, and WHO states that condom use is a critical element in a comprehensive, effective and sustainable approach to HIV prevention and treatment.

Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference Report and Plan of Action on Population and Poverty

At the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference held in Bangkok in December 2002, ministers and senior officials from 35 countries adopted a Plan of Action calling for stepped-up efforts and increased resources to provide reproductive health care, combat AIDS and protect adolescents against unwanted or too-early pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. All but one of the participating governments, members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), fully reaffirmed their commitment to the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo. [see press release]

General Information and Advocacy

Children and AIDS

Third Stocktaking Report, 2008

This joint stocktaking report highlights the importance of knowing the features of different AIDS epidemics in order to contain or reverse them. It argues for expanded paediatric AIDS testing and treatment as well as prevention of mother-to-child transmission and new infections among adolescents and young people. It also advocates for expanded protection and care for the approximately 15 million children globally who have lost either one or both of their parents due to AIDS, sparking greater attention to the needs of all vulnerable young.

Culture Matters

Lessons from a Legacy of Engaging Faith-based Organizations

This publication maps partnerships between UNFPA and faith-based organizations in the areas of population and development, including human rights, reproductive health, women's empowerment, adolescents and youth, humanitarian assistance, and HIV and AIDS.

Financing the ICPD Programme of Action (2007)

Data for 2005 and Estimates for 2006/2007

This brochure provides a brief overview of where the international community stands in terms of financing ICPD after Cairo. It answers such questions as: Why fund population activities? What will it take to achieve the ICPD objectives? Where are we now? Who funds population activities? Where is the money going? Which countries benefit most from assistance? How much are countries mobilizing themselves? How much do we need in the years ahead? The brochure can be used to advocate for the mobilization of resources necessary to implement the Cairo agenda.

Prevention is for Life

HIV/AIDS: Dispatches from the Field

This advocacy booklet uses real-life examples to explain how HIV prevention can save lives in diverse cultural and geographical settings. It includes chapters on youth and HIV, condom programming, protecting women and girls, linking HIV prevention with other sexual and reproductive health care, and empowering populations who are at particular risk. It also features stories and stunning photography from Belize, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan.

Special Youth Programme Report

This report aims to create awareness among policy and decision makers, programmers and the general public on UNFPA's Special Youth Programme, a global youth-adult partnership initiative that recruits young people from developing countries to join the Fund for a nine-month remunerated fellowship. The assignment includes work both in its Headquarters in New York and its Country Offices around the world, with the purpose of building young people's capacities in the areas of UNFPA's mandate.

Who We Are

This brochure provides a brief introduction to UNFPA and its efforts to ensure that every child is wanted, every pregnancy is safe, every young person is free of HIV and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.

Beijing at Ten: UNFPA's Commitment to the Platform of Action

This publication, launched at the start of the Beijing at 10 review, highlights what UNFPA has done and is doing to support governments and civil society in each of the 12 critical areas of the Beijing Platform for Action.

World Reaffirms Cairo: Official Outcomes of the ICPD at Ten Review

UNFPA, in cooperation with the relevant agencies, published in early 2005 a compendium of the official outcomes of the ICPD at Ten, entitled "The World Reaffirms Cairo: Official Outcomes of the ICPD at Ten Review". The volume contains, in multiple languages as relevant, the declarations, resolutions, and action plan from the official reports of the review meetings of the UN Regional Commissions and the Commission on Population and Development, held between 2002-2004.

24 Tips for Culturally Sensitive Programming

Guide to Working from Within

This booklet, a companion to the publication Working from Within, colorfully presents 24 tips, one per page, for culturally sensitive programming, based on research carried out by UNFPA. (Also available in German.)

Adding it Up

The Benefits of Investing In Sexual and Reproductive Health Care

This new report jointly published by The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, makes the case for increased funding for sexual and reproductive health services-particularly in resource-poor countries-by illustrating the unusually broad societal and individual impact of investments in sexual and reproductive health.

At The Crossroads: Accelerating Youth Access to HIV/AIDS Interventions

This publication highlights the ways in which young people remain at the centre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Noting that many young people are at high risk of HIV infection, the publication documents how they lack access to critical youth-friendly information, skills and services for the prevention, treatment and care of HIV and AIDS.

Securing the Supplies People Rely On

This brochure was launched at the 2004 International Parliamentarians' Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action held in Strasbourg, France on 18-19 October 2004. It outlines the current RH commodity shortfall situation caused by rising demand and falling financial support and gives details of the Global Strategy on Reproductive Health Commodity Security (RHCS), running from advocacy, to resource mobilization, technical cooperation, coordination, national capacity building and improved sustainability.

Who We Are

THIS IS UNFPA. No woman should die in childbirth. Hundreds of thousands do every year. No infant should die for lack of assistance to its mother. Millions do. No woman should have undesired pregnancies. Children should be born healthy into families and a world ready to nurture them. This is what UNFPA is about.

Women: Meeting the Challenges of HIV/AIDS

This brochure was developed in collaboration with UNIFEM, UNAIDS and UNFPA to highlight critical issues impacting on women and girls in the context of HIV/AIDS.

Preventing HIV Infection, Promoting Reproductive Health

UNFPA Response 2002

Previously known as AIDS Update, this is the 11th annual publication to provide information about action taken by UNFPA to prevent HIV infection. HIV/AIDS threatens to destroy a whole generation of leaders, workers, parents and youth, and to create a generation of orphans in the worst-affected countries. In many countries, the infection is creeping through the population,preparing to strike full-force. Prevention is about striking first. Reproductive health information, services and supplies enable people to avoid HIV infection and to protect themselves, their partners and their unborn children from this deadly virus.

Reproductive Health Essentials--Securing the Supply

Global Strategy for Reproductive Health Commodity Security

Previously known as AIDS Update, this is the 11th annual publication to provide information about action taken by UNFPA to prevent HIV infection. HIV/AIDS threatens to destroy a whole generation of leaders, workers, parents and youth, and to create a generation of orphans in the worst-affected countries. In many countries, the infection is creeping through the population, preparing to strike full-force. Prevention is about striking first. Reproductive health information, services and supplies enable people to avoid HIV infection and to protect themselves, their partners and their unborn children from this deadly virus.

Future Generations Ready for The World

UNFPA’s Contribution to the Goals of the World Summit for Children

This publication documents UNFPA's contribution to the goals of the World Summit for Children and its commitment to young people. This commitment, anchored in the ICPD Programme of Action, includes support in four major areas: girls' education, adolescent reproductive and sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and maternal mortality. Examples of UNFPA-funded projects in each of these areas are presented, as are strategies for moving forward.

Reproductive Health Commodity Security: Partnerships for Change - A Global Call to Action

This document is a response to a call from the international community for UNFPA to take the lead in ensuring reproductive health commodity security (RHCS). It outlines the scope of the issue, identifies required actions at both the global and country levels to ensure RHCS, and proposes specific roles for various partners, from developing country governments to NGOs and the private sector. It also projects contraceptive costs, shortfalls and consequences.

Reproductive Health Commodity Security: Partnerships for Change - The UNFPA Strategy

This paper outlines the strategy that UNFPA has developed for its contribution to RHCS, based on the approach outlined in a companion paper, Reproductive Health Commodity Security: Partnerships for Change. A Global Call to Action.

Global Strategy for Reproductive Health Commodity Security

An informative Powerpoint presentation.

UNFPA at Work

Five Country Snapshots

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with a staff of just 900, is one of the world's smaller international development agencies. But it has a broad mandate: to raise awareness of population throughout the world and, especially, to assist developing countries in solving their population problems.

State of World Population

Generation of Change: Young People and Culture

Youth Supplement: State of World Population 2008

This Youth Supplement to UNFPA's State of the World Population 2008 focuses on the interactions among culture, gender and human rights and the critical importance of culturally sensitive approaches for effective development policies and programmes. The report, which is the third in a series, addresses culture as it shapes and nurtures the lives of young people and shows how young people develop their own subcultures, which are often different from and may conflict with the dominant culture.

State of World Population 2008

Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights

Culture is and always has been central to development. As a natural and fundamental dimension of people's lives, culture must be integrated into development policy and programming. This report shows how this process works in practice. The starting point of the report is the universal validity of the international human rights framework. The focus is therefore on discussing and showcasing how culturally sensitive approaches are critical for the realization of human rights in general and women's rights in particular.

State of World Population 2006

A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration

Today, half of all international migrants—95 million—are women and girls. Yet, despite substantial contributions to both their families at home and communities abroad, the needs of migrant women continue to be overlooked and ignored. The State of World Population 2006 report, A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration, examines the scope and breadth of female migration, the impact of the funds they send home to support families and communities, and their disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking, exploitation and abuse. The report reveals that although migrant women contribute billions of dollars in cash and services, policymakers continue to disregard both their contributions and their vulnerability—even though female migrants tend to send a much higher proportion of their lower earnings back home than their male counterparts.

State of World Population 2005

The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals

How do we improve the lives of the nearly 3 billion individuals living on less than two dollars a day? How can we enable all individuals — male and female, young and old — to protect themselves from HIV? To save the lives of more than 500,000 women who die each year in childbirth? What will it take to show young people living in poverty that they have a stake in development and a hope for the future?

State of World Population 2004

The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and The Global Effort to End Poverty

This year's report, The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty, examines the progress countries have made and the obstacles they have encountered at the halfway point in implementing the ICPD plan.

Technical Publications

HIV Prevention for Girls and Young Women

Report Cards

These Report Cards are advocacy tools aimed at increasing and improving the programmatic, policy and funding actions taken on HIV prevention for girls and young women. Their key audiences are national, regional and international policy and decision-makers, and service providers.

Community Pathways To Improved Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

A Conceptual Framework and Suggested Outcome Indicators

This working paper, based on the work of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Community Involvement in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, presents a framework that links community involvement interventions to desired adolescent health outcomes. The publication includes a set of social change indicators as well as several case studies that evaluate relevant programming.

Ending Violence Against Women

Programming for Prevention, Protection and Care

This handbook, intended primarily for development practitioners, provides practical points to consider when designing and implementing projects addressing violence against women. It is a collection of good practices drawn from ten case studies described in a complementary volume Programming to Address Violence Against Women. The approaches are based on an appreciation of culture and the role it plays in this issue.

Engaging Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention: A Training Manual for Programme Managers

UNFPA has embarked on a number of joint initiatives with faith-based organizations to address the spread of HIV and to fight the stigma often directed towards people living with the virus. The Fund's engagement, dialogue and partnership with faith-based organizations have yielded results that have been mutually beneficial to UNFPA and religious institutions' and, most important, have improved the lives of the people they serve.

Human Rights-Based Programming

What It Is / How to Do It

This two-in-one handbook can help you turn the concept of a 'human rights-based approach' into reality on the ground. It breaks down human rights-based approach into its various components, and provides a checklist for development practitioners to use in implementing and evaluating their programmes.

Make It Matter

10 Key Advocacy Messages to Prevent HIV in Girls and Young Women

The aim of this guide is to equip its users with key messages, evidence and actions that can be used to advocate effectively to prevent HIV in girls and young women. It focuses on three goals that the global community increasingly recognizes as important components of the response to the epidemic: improving the accessibility of sexual and reproductive health services for girls and young women; expanding socio-economic opportunities; and ending child marriage. In turn, collectively the goals are divided into a total of 10 key messages.

Programming to Address Violence Against Women: Ten Case Studies

This volume documents UNFPA's experience addressing many forms of violence against women. Intended primarily for development practitioners and others seeking to change attitudes and practices, it offers lessons that can help scale up responses. Projects in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Romania, Sierra Leone and Turkey are discussed.

Strengthening Evaluation for Improved Programming: UNFPA Evaluation Quality Assessment

Evaluation Report Number 21

In 2005, UNFPA conducted its first-ever evaluation quality asseessment (EQA). The assessment examined quality in 60 UNFPA evaluations making use of recognized international best practice criteria. The assessment also included 6 in-depth best practice case studies from different regions of the world.

The Dynamics of Honour Killings in Turkey: Prospects for Action

This report summarizes and evaluates qualitative research about so-called 'honour killings'. It focused the different perceptions of honour and the consequences faced by people engaged in 'dishonourable conduct.' It also analyzes the way the concept of dishonour is related to social structures, lifestyles and mental constructs. The information is derived from interviews and group discussions conducted in four Turkish cities with relatively high numbers of such murders. The report includes proposals for solutions to the problem and suggestions for action.

Empowering Young Women to Lead Change

A Training Manual

This easy-to-follow resource manual can help young women prepare and facilitate training sessions on a host of issues that are important to them. A joint publication of the World YWCA and UNFPA, the manual was developed by young women. It contains modules on young women's leadership, economic justice, HIV and AIDS, human rights, peace, self esteem and body image, sexual and reproductive health and violence against women.

Female Migrants: Bridging the Gaps Throughout the Life Cycle

Selected Papers of the UNFPA-IOM Expert Group Meeting, New York, 2-3 May 2006

Women make up nearly half of all migrants, an estimated 95 million of 191 million people living outside their countries of origin in 2005. Migration can be beneficial, both for women and for the countries which send and receive them. However, comparing to men, women have fewer opportunities for legal migration and are more vulnerable to violence and exploitation, and their needs for health care and other services are less likely to be met. This publication is a compilation of technical reports by independent experts and representatives from governments, international agencies and NGOs, addressing the needs, challenges, opportunities and rights of female migrants.

Glion Consultation on Strengthening the Linkages between Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS:

Family Planning and HIV/AIDS in Women and Children

There is a key programmatic linkage between family planning and the prevention of HIV in women and children.This was the focus of a high-level consultation convened by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Glion, Switzerland, in May 2004.

Keeping the Promise: An Agenda for Action on Women and AIDS

AIDS is affecting women and girls in increasing numbers. Globally, women comprise almost 50% of the people living with HIV. Nearly 25 years into the epidemic, gender inequality and the low status of women remain two of the principal drivers of HIV. Yet, current AIDS responses do not, on the whole, tackle the social, cultural and economic factors that put women at risk of HIV, and that unduly burden them with the epidemic's consequences.

Preparing for the Introduction of HPV Vaccines: Policy and Programme Guidance for Countries

This guidance note is based on a UNFPA/WHO Technical Consultation on HPV Vaccines and Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes, held in March 2006 in Montreux, Switzerland. It is intended to alert a broad array of stakeholders -- in sexual and reproductive health, immunization, child and adolescent health, and cancer control programmes -- to some of the key issues surrounding the upcoming introduction of HPV vaccines against cervical cancer.

Preventing HIV/AIDS in Young People

A Systematic Review of the Evidence from Developing Countries

This book can provide a basis for evidence-informed programming and policies for youth. It offers a systematic review of the accumulated evidence, from two decades of programming, for the effectiveness of interventions to prevent the spread of HIV among young people in developing countries. Using a standard methodology, authors reviewed the evidence from 80 studies of interventions delivered that reach young people .

Women are the Fabric: Reproductive Health for Communities in Crisis

Women form the backbone of families and communities. When emergencies strike, their important contributions become even more vital. But in times of crisis, the particular strengths an vulnerabilities of women are often overlooked in the rush to provide humanitarian assistance. This booklet describes the ways in which UNFPA works with partners to ensure that the specific needs of women are factored into the planning of all humanitarian assistance and addresses urgent reproductive health needs that are sometimes forgotten.

Women on the Move

An expert group meeting on "Female Migrants: Bridging the gaps throughout the life cycle" was organized in May 2006 by UNFPA and IOM in light of the opportunity to highlight the issue of female migrants at the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development organized in September 2006. The brochure gives a summary of the recommendations and conclusions from the meeting.

Case for Investing in Young People

As part of a National Poverty Reduction Strategy

This paper focuses on national efforts to reduce poverty and presents seven arguments for why national public policy makers should give more attention to young people, if these efforts are to be successful.

Combating Gender-Based Violence: A Key to Achieving the MDGS

This advocacy kit outlines the problem of gender-based violence, elaborates its linkages to poverty, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and conflict, and discusses its impact on a nation's development. The goal is to mobilize leadership at the national, regional and global levels to make violence unacceptable.

Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention 2005

This report, which is prepared on an annual basis, provides a detailed look at the contraceptive supplies provided by donors. Based on data collected by UNFPA's Commodity Management Branch since 1990, the report presents information on the type, quantity and total cost of contraceptives that donors have been supplying to reproductive health programmes in developing countries. The report also analyzes trends in donor funding over the last decade and compares the supply of contraceptive commodities with estimated needs.

From Microfinance to Macro Change

Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty

This advocacy booklet calls for integration of reproductive health education with microfinance services in developing countries. It presents individual stories, case studies and dramatic findings to show the impact this combination can have on reducing poverty and improving individual lives. The booklet also offers eight concrete recommendations for action.

Rights into Action

UNFPA implements Human Rights-Based Approach

This advocacy booklet lays out the underlying principles of UNFPA's human rights work in the key thematic areas, including population and development, reproductive health, gender equality and women's empowerment.

Soap Operas for Social Change to Prevent HIV/AIDS:

A Training Guide for Journalists and Media Personnel

This guide is designed to be used by journalists and media personnel to plan and execute the production and broadcast of entertainment-education serial dramas for HIV prevention.

Investing in People

National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994-2004

This Global Survey includes responses from 169 countries on the steps they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action, including measures related to population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.

Investing in People -- A Summary

National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994 - 2004

A summary of the Global Survey that includes responses from 169 countries on the measures they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action in the fields of population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.

Maternal Mortality Update 2004

Delivering into Good Hands

Every two years, UNFPA's Maternal Mortality Update documents strategies for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity in the developing world. The 2004 update, published in collaboration with the Dugald Baird Centre for Research on Women's Health at the University of Aberdeen, focuses on the role of skilled attendance in improving maternal health.

Saving Mothers’ Lives

The Challenge Continues

More than half a million women die each year as a result of pregnancy-related complications. This brochure describes UNFPA's three-part strategy to prevent this tragic loss and some of the progress that is occurring in countries around the world. Improving maternal health is one of the eight internationally agreed on Millennium Development Goals and a top priority for UNFPA.

Male Latex Condom

The male latex condom is a simple, low-cost device, but because lives depend on it, it has to meet demanding performance requirements. This technical publication includes product specifications and guidelines, developed through consultations with international organizations, donors, NGOS and many in the private sector, including testing laboratories and consumer groups, to ensure quality asurance procedures for the production and procurement of condoms.

Strengthened Partnerships among Local FM and Community Radio Networks and RH Agencies on HIV/AIDS

Background Paper: A Review of the Effectiveness of Local FM Radio in Promoting Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Gender Equity

This interactive CD-ROM presents all materials developed for and discussed during two pilot regional training workshops in Africa and Asia in 2003. During the workshops, managers learned how to use entertainment-education methodologies to produce radio serial dramas that are culturally sensitive and research-based. The aim is to use this popular medium more effectively to reduce risky behaviour and prevent HIV/AIDS. The workshops were organized by UNFPA and the Population Media Center (PMC).

Communication/Behavior Change Tools Number 2:

Effectively Using Hotlines for BCC in Population and RH

Communication/Behavior Change Tools Number 2: Effectively Using Hotlines for BCC in Population and RH This programming brief provides definition, aims of hotlines for behaviour change in population and reproductive health and highlights the key programming elements to consider. It also documents a few UNFPA?s experiences in integrating hotlines in its programmes. Hotlines are innovative behaviour change tools to maximize information, counseling and services that can be applied to a variety of UNFPA thematic initiatives such as Humanitarian Response, elimination of gender violence, reduction of maternal mortality, HIV/ AIDS, Sexuality education, legal advice and literacy.

Communication/Behaviour Change Tools Number 1:

Entertainment-Education

To make a positive difference on attitudes and behaviour on reproductive health and gender issues, quality entertainment-education programmes involve careful planning, monitoring and evaluation. Especially key to success is the timely use of socio-cultural research and evaluation at various stages of the programme planning sequence. The note defines entertainment-education (EE), addresses its relevance to UNFPA thematic priorities, discusses key programming elements, describes experiences-to-date, lists key lessons learned, and points to a number of useful resources (references and web-based resources).

Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention

This publication contains country-specific information reported by donors on the type, quantity and the total cost of contraceptives they provided to reproductive health programmes in developing countries in 2002. The report is especially useful to illustrate commodity shortfalls and changes in funding by donor and country.

Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention

The Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention 2001 report was prepared by analyzing information from the database on donor support for RH commodities maintained by the Commodity Management Unit (CMU) of the Technical Support Division (TSD). This publication contains country-specific information reported by donors on the type, quantity and the total cost of contraceptives they provided to RH programmes in developing countries in 2001. This report, the latest in a series of reports, is being used for contraceptive supply planning, advocacy and resource mobilization. The report is especially useful to illustrate commodity shortfalls and changes in funding by donor and country.

Reproductive Health for Communities in Crisis

UNFPA Emergency Response

Wars or natural disasters deprive people of life-saving reproductive health information and services. This advocacy booklet details UNFPA's work with global partners to respond to the reproductive health needs of refugees and internally displaced persons in crisis situations around the world: providing services to address complications of pregnancy and delivery, the transmission of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, adolescent health, violence against women, and access to condoms and other contraceptives.

Strategic Options for HIV/AIDS Advocacy in Africa

Report of the Joint UNFPA-UNAIDS HIV/AIDS Advocacy Mission to Africa

This report documents advocacy efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, identifies major issues that still need to be tackled, and describes what partnerships at various levels can do to improve African responses to HIV/AIDS. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), sponsored the fact-finding mission to six African countries on which this report is based and provided support for printing and distribution, as a contribution to scaling up advocacy against AIDS on the African continent.

Partnering: A New Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health

Technical Paper Number 3

"Partnering" shows how a global consensus is emerging on how to scale up successful programmes that involve men without diverting scarce resources from women?s health. In fact, men are more and more taking ownership of mobilization and advocacy for the emergence of a more gender equitable young man.

Workshop and Meeting Reports

Proceedings Report

United Nations Inter-Agency Consultation on Engagement with Faith-based Organizations

This publication reports on the interagency consultation hosted by UNFPA in July 2008. The meeting brought together representatives from various United Nations agencies that have some experience and insight regarding programmating with faith-based organizations (defined as religious and religion-based groups or congregations, specialized religious institutions, and registered or unregistered non-profit institutions that have a faith-based character or mission, including spiritual organizations).

Advocacy and Resource Mobilization for the 2010 Round of Censuses

24-25 February 2005 -- New York

In February 2005, a joint UNFPA/UNSD International Meeting on the 2010 Round of Censuses was held in New York. The outcome of that meeting is reflected in this report.

Communication for Development Roundtable Report

Focus on HIV/AIDS Communication and Evaluation

This new publication summarizes discussions from the Eighth Roundtable on Communication for Development Roundtable (Managua, 2001) on strategies to meet the urgent challenge of HIV/AIDS. It highlights communications that address the needs of young people, use of community media, and community mobilization to tackle gender- based violence and discrimination. It also presents communications models and applications from the field, along with lessons learned. A CD-ROM companion features all presentations and related documentation.

For related materials, please visit the Communication Initiative website.


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