We promote gender equality and empower women, girls and young people to take control of their bodies and their futures. We work with partners in more than 150 countries to provide access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services. Our goal is ending unmet need for family planning, preventable maternal death, and gender-based violence and harmful practices including child marriage and female genital mutilation by 2030.
Reached 21,888 of the most vulnerable people in Indonesia, including people with disabilities, people living with HIV, survivors of GBV, pregnant women, women at risk and other selected beneficiaries, during the COVID...
Since AIDS emerged as a crisis in the 1980s, an unprecedented global response has made HIV prevention and treatment services available in almost every country in the world. Yet millions of people remain vulnerable to...
About 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, according to recent data. This is about one woman every two minutes. For every woman who dies, between 20 and 30 will experience...
When midwives are well trained, adequate in number, and appropriately supported to provide a better quality of care, they can avert about two-thirds of preventable maternal and newborn deaths. They could also deliver 87...
Supported KemenPPPA and Yayasan Kesehatan Perempuan in conducting a series of caregiver training in 4 (four) pilot province/districts (Jakarta, Cirebon, Palu,Ssigi) on reproductive health for child marriage prevention.
Supported Bappenas in developing the background study on women’s rights protection documents for RPJMN 2025- 2029 and RPJP 2025 - 2045.
Early childbearing, high fertility rates and inadequate access to maternal health services are the main contributing factors in the high number of maternal deaths among young women in Africa. Girls aged 15-19 years are...
UNFPA supported the Directorate of Women and Child Development in training One Stop Centre staff on addressing GBV and providing mental health and psychosocial support in the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and...
Supported Kemenkes in conducting a policy dialogue with stakeholders to follow up the endorsement of UU TPKS, focusing on health sector response.
The East and Southern Africa region has about 649 million people. Of these, around 32 per cent are aged 10 to 24 years (2022) – and this proportion is growing. What happens to them in adolescence will influence not only...
Human rights are universal, which means that they apply to all human beings. They are also inalienable – they cannot be given voluntarily nor taken away by force.
Developed and launched the first National Action Plan to Improve the School-Aged Children and Adolescents Wellbeing (RAN PIJAR) in collaboration with the Coordinating Ministry of Human Development and Culture (Kemenko...
Internationally recognized as a human rights violation, female genital mutilation (FGM) – the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs – is a serious...
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a universal phenomenon. Globally, one in three women experiences either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence during their lifetime (WHO). GBV ranges from physical,...
Gender equality is, first and foremost, a human right. It implies that women, men, boys and girls of all classes and races participate as equals and have equal value. They enjoy equal access to resources, freedoms and...
East and Southern Africa is one of the most demographically complex regions in the world, with 23 countries navigating unique transitions such as rapid youth population growth, accelerating urbanization, and the...
The year 2022 marked an important landmark for UNFPA in India – the successful completion of the 9th Country Programme (2018-2022), another milestone in the long list of achievements of UNFPA in the country since the...
From changing temperatures and weather patterns to more severe storms and rising sea levels, the effects of climate change are with us and accelerating. It is a global emergency and one of the greatest challenges facing...
The East and Southern Africa region saw its population increase from 312 million in 1994 to 633 million in 2021. This is expected to grow to 1.1 billion by 2050, accounting for 47 per cent or almost half of Africa’s...