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Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Rural Malawi
This blog, by Henry Chimtengo, a senior clinical assistant at Malombe Health Centre in Malawi’s Mangochi District, highlights the value of the integrated health training he received through the programme in Malawi and the many lives that benefitted.
UNFPA Engagement With Human Rights Mechanisms
This brief provides an overview of the process and emerging results from a triangular cooperation between the UNFPA Asia and the Pacific Regional Office, UNFPA East and Southern Africa Regional Office, and the UNFPA Representation Office in Geneva in 2020/2021 on the engagement with international Human Rights Mechanisms, particularly the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), to advance and drive development cooperation efforts on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
Building on Lessons Learned
Through its Regional Interventions Action Plan, UNFPA ESARO worked to improve the lives of adolescents, youth, and women, ensuring access to and delivery of HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health information and services, reducing maternal mortality and harmful cultural norms and practices, and making sure no one is left behind.
Disability Awareness Checklist Facilitator Guide
The Disability Awareness Checklist is a simple disability sensitization tool that can be used to undertake a basic assessment of a health facility’s preparedness to accommodate people with disabilities and support this facility to develop a ‘quick and easy’ action plan.
Disability Awareness Checklist for Healthcare Services
This report provides a checklist to help make your health-care services more accessible and disability inclusive. We recommend that you use the findings of this DAC tool to create an action plan with at least 3-5 actions that your facility can take to improve access for patients/clients with disabilities over the next 12 months.
Evaluation of the East and Southern Africa Ministerial Commitment on Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents and Young People
By 2013, there was growing concern among international and national development partners and governments that adolescents and young people in East and Southern Africa urgently needed support to safeguard their sexual and reproductive health and ensure their access to comprehensive sexuality education.
Building Resilience after Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Prevalence of SGBV remains high in East and Southern Africa, a region where according to the latest SADC Sexual Reproductive Health Scorecard data, in seven countries, around 20 per cent of those aged 15-24 years reported they experienced violence from an intimate partner.
Report of the Africa Symposium on Improving Menstrual Health Management
The African Coalition for Menstrual Health Management and UNFPA East and Southern Africa Regional Office, in partnership with other partners, convened the second African Symposium on Menstrual Health. The virtual symposium took place from May 25 to May 27, 2021, bringing together 717 participants from 75 countries worldwide, the majority of them from Africa.
Hear Her
This booklet documents stories of hope to inspire change towards greater sexual and reproductive health and rights in East and Southern Africa.
Modelling the Demographic Dividend
This paper provides an overview of some of the common tools and methodologies that are used to estimate and analyse the demographic dividend, while also reviewing the extent to which some of these methodologies are able to respond to the types of issues confronted by policymakers in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. Secondly, the paper provides a more detailed look at two of the key methodologies used to analyse the demographic dividend in the region, namely the DemDiv model and National Transfer Accounts (NTA).