ven., 24 mai 2013 14:16:53 +0000 ven., 24 mai 2013 14:16:53 +0000 http://www.unfpa.org UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. UNFPA – because everyone counts. en-us serrano@unfpa.org (Alvaro Serrano) gruber@unfpa.org (Kimberly Gruber) http://www.unfpa.org/images/unfpalogoxs.gif 80 36 The world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programmes http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10495;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 UNFPA has launched a companion guide to its free e-learning course for professionals who are working to address Gender Based Violence in humanitarian contexts. The e-learning course uses problems that practitioners currently face and case scenarios from real-life humanitarian contexts to guide learning. Integrated throughout the modules are videos, learning activities and quizzes that both engage the learner, and support participants’ varying learning styles. The new companion guide not only covers all of the content in the e-learning, but also provides new case studies, sample tools, best practices, and activities. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10085;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 This Guide describes what capacity development is and how UNFPA is applying it in specific countries. The first chapter provides an overview of capacity development and some basic definitions; the second highlights examples of practice in action from the field; and the third consists of a series of tools and resources that maybe useful when developing and implementing capacity development programmes. This guide is primarily meant for UNFPA technical and programme staff but may also serve other United Nations agencies, partner organizations and Member States. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/11457;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 UNFPA is intensifying strategic support to voluntary family planning through its Global Programme to Enhance Reproductive Health Commodity Security. Countries participating in the Global Programme are now reporting their own success stories backed by measureable results. This publication shares numerous examples of activities in countries participating in the Global Programme to Enhance Reproductive Health Commodity Security as of 2011. Examples are included from Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Lao PDR, Madagascar, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone. Many are Stream 1 countries in the GPRHCS, which means they receive sustained, multi-year support. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/1294;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 UNFPA and UNICEF are working  towards  accelerated abandonment of female genital mutilation/ cutting within 17 countries by 2012. The focus of this joint funding proposal is to leverage social dynamics towards abandonment within selected communities that practice FGM/C. The main strategic approach is to gain the support of an initial core group, which decides to abandon FGM/C and mobilises a sufficient number of people to facilitate a tipping point and thereby create a rapid social shift of the cutting social convention norm. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/8834;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 This report takes stock of the progress of sexual and reproductive health initiatives of the UNFPA and World Health Organization in four countries in 2011: Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malawi, Senegal and Tajikistan. The studies also focus on how the role of the country offices of the two agencies has changed in the context of sexual and reproductive health.     http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/7762;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 This report contains important new data about why young people are key to defeating the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, including results from more than 60 new national surveys. It reaffirms that we must accord top priority to making investments in the well-being of young people and to engaging them in the fight against HIV and AIDS. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10761;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 This report documents progress during the third year of the Joint Programme. In 2010, the programme was implemented in Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Egypt, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda, with Eritrea, Mali and Mauritania also receiving some technical and financial assistance.   http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/10763;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 In  2009, the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Abandonment of FGM/C expanded activities to reach 12 of the 17 countries covered. This report document its activities. In 2009, a core feature of the programme’s implementation was the fostering of partnerships: with government authorities both at the local and national levels, religious authorities and local religious leaders, the media, civil society organizations of women and in the education and reproductive health sectors. In 2009, these partnerships have served to disseminate knowledge, empower communities and foster an enabling environment for collective social change towards a shift in the FGM/C social norm. By mainstreaming FGM/C into the reproductive health sector, the programme has also contributed to an improvement in the wellbeing of girls and women already subjected to FGM/C.   http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/5842;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 Its title, 'Accelerating Efforts to Advance the Rights of Adolescent Girls,' describes the joint pledge by UNFPA, UNICEF, ILO, UNESCO, UNIFEM, and WHO to intensify support  to advance key policies and programmes that empower the hardest-to-reach adolescent girlsin developing countries, particularly those aged 10 to 14 years old. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/3888;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 These briefing cards outline why decision-makers should prioritise saving mothers’ and newborns’ lives and key investments they should make in order to achieve that goal. Designed for use by policymakers, civil society groups, and advocates, the cards explain why the world needs to invest now in maternal, newborn, and reproductive health and the strategic actions needed to improve vital health services for mothers and their newborns in the developing world. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/4412;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 This report documents good practices in preventing and responding to gender-based violence. The five case studies featured within document initiatives in Armenia, Romania,Turkey and the Ukraine that were implemented by governments and other partners with the support of UNFPA. Although the reports focus on initiatives in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the practices and lessons learned can be applied throughout the globe. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/3346;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 This series of Adolescent Data Guides, which draws principally on data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS),  aims to provide decision makers at all levels – from governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and advocacy groups – with data on the situation of adolescent girls and boys and young women. The age range covered is 10-24. The data are presented in graphs, tables, and maps (wherever possible), providing multiple formats to make the information accessible to a range of audiences. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/4500;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 This book broadens and deepens understanding of a wide range of population-climate change linkages. Incorporating population dynamics into research, policymaking and advocacy around climate change is critical for understanding the trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions, for developing and implementing adaptation plans and thus for global and national efforts to curtail this threat. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/4353;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 This year's flagship report argues that reproductive health care, including family planning, and gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts. Women, especially impoverished women in developing countries, bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, the report concludes. http://unfpa.org/public/cache/offonce/home/publications/pid/2220;jsessionid=A673185FE19235EC9EEA7500D759B256.jahia01 This paper provides updated figures on the dividends of investing in reproductive health care, including contraception, and highlights the gaps in service provision and support.