Key strategic shifts will transform the way we work.
We will integrate the effects of megatrends – from ageing to climate change to people on the move – into programming, scale-up high-quality services, expand our humanitarian response capacity and address mental health and psychosocial issues. We will tackle gender norms that are holding back women and girls, look even more closely at local contexts and underlying social and cultural barriers, and reinvigorate and expand partnerships old and new. Internally, we will ensure that UNFPA has the right people in the right place with the right skills to lead our global transformative agenda.
Countries will take the lead to determine which modes of engagement will have the most impact in their cultural and geographic context, producing a more decentralized plan for what works. This will include advocacy and policy dialogue and support; knowledge management; capacity development; service delivery; and coordination, partnership and South-South and triangular cooperation.
By 2025, the reduction in the unmet need for family planning has accelerated
Percentage of women with an unmet need for family planning
Note: Women with unmet need are those, aged 15-49, who are married or in a union and want to stop or delay childbearing but are not using any method of contraception.
By 2025, the reduction of preventable maternal deaths has accelerated
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births
Note: Assuming all the maternal deaths are preventable. Sustainable Development Goal target: reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to fewer than 70 per 100,000 live birth.
By 2025, the reduction in gender-based violence and harmful practices has accelerated
Proportion of girls who have undergone female genital mutilation
Note: Sustainable Development Goal target: eliminating female genital mutilation by 2030.
The strategic plan contributes to accelerating the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is aligned with and contributes to all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goals 3, 5, 10, 16 and 17, which work together to bring us closer to the achievement of Goal 1 – to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development