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UNFPA and the Climate Crisis
In 2019, UNFPA organized an International Symposium on SRHR, Gender and Climate Change Resilience to share knowledge and identify programmes to reduce the impacts of climate change and build the resilience of communities in vulnerable settings. The resulting Future Africa Call to Action outlines both the impacts of climate change on the achievement of universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and the contributions that the ICPD community can make to building climate resilience.
SRHR, Gender and Climate Change Resilience Symposium
In the lead up to the Nairobi Summit and the UN’s Climate Change Summit in September 2019, UNFPA convened a three-day symposium, focusing on programmatic, partnership and financing opportunities linking ICPD, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender and climate change resilience.
Demography and COVID-19 in Africa
This report summarises the proceedings of a webinar series that aimed to create a space for sharing a demographic perspective on the impacts of COVID-19 with partners on the continent, and develop policy recommendations that South Africa and the continent can implement now and in the protracted response and early post-pandemic recovery period to safeguard the demographic dividend.
UNFPA Cabo Delgado Flash Appeal March 2021
UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has launched a humanitarian appeal for $12 million to urgently provide life-saving sexual and reproductive health and protection services for 330,000 women, girls, and youth impacted by the humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, and the secondary impacts of COVID-19.
What is the SADC Model Law all about?
Mrs. Mondlane pays a visit to Fanaka at the legal office to get advice on how to prevent her daughter Chisisi from being married off at a young age.
Promoting the SADC Model Law through Parliamentary Action
The legal office is buzzing with excitement today as Bahati and Fanaka prepare to televise Honourable Dalia Cumbe’s speech to her fellow parliamentarians about child marriage on International Day of the Girl.
What can I do to promote the SADC Model Law?
Bahati and Fanaka have organized a meeting with some elders, traditional leaders, teachers, health care practitioners, parents and children from their community to talk about what child marriage is and how it affects the well-being of girls.
Ending child marriage: How can the law help?
Bahati and Fanaka are young advocates who are working to end child marriage in their community.
UNFPA Mozambique Fact Sheet for the Northern Province Humanitarian Crisis
More than a year after Cyclone Kenneth's landfall in May 2019, the humanitarian situation in Cabo Delgado province has deteriorated due to consecutive climatic shocks, public health emergencies such as COVID-19, and growing insecurity.
Child Marriage in COVID-19 contexts: Disruptions, Alternative Approaches and Building Programme Resilience
COVID-19 has upended the lives of children and families across the globe and adversely affected programmes to end child marriage. The pandemic is having a devastating effect on families, communities and economies. In the medium to long term, the threat of child marriage is far greater when communities are affected by economic shocks and have limited access to basic services such as health, education and child protection, all of which are being negatively impacted by the pandemic.