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Synthesis report - Namibia: Investment Cases Towards Ending Unmet Need for Family Planning and Gender-Based Violence

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This investment case provides the evidence required to achieve the transformative results of (a) ending unmet need for family planning and (b) ending gender-based violence (GBV) by 2030 in Namibia.

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Botswana: Investment Case Towards Ending Unmet Need for Family Planning

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This study estimates the investment and the impact of scaling up coverage of modern contraceptive methods among married/in-union women aged 15-49 years in Botswana within a time frame of ten years (2020-2030). The goal is to reduce unmet need for family planning among women, from 17.3 per cent in 2020 to 8 per cent or less by 2030.

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Synthesis report - Botswana: Investment Case Towards Ending Unmet Need for Family Planning

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This investment case defines the scale and scope of investments needed to provide family planning services in the country. It also provides information on high impact and cost-effective interventions required to accelerate progress towards ending unmet need for family planning in Botswana by 2030.

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Photo Essay on COVID-19 and the Continuation of Services across East and Southern Africa

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When the COVID-19 Pandemic broke out, the first response priorities were to provide health workers with personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks, and diagnostic and therapeutic supplies, and to find new ways to reach and serve the population, especially young people.  Read about the innovative ways  the programme devised to deliver sexual and reproductive health services during a pandemic.

 

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Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Rural Malawi

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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.

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UNFPA Engagement With Human Rights Mechanisms

UNFPA Engagement With Human Rights Mechanisms

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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.

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Building on Lessons Learned

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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.

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Disability Awareness Checklist Facilitator Guide

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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.

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Disability Awareness Checklist for Healthcare Services

Disability Awareness Checklist for Healthcare Services

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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. 

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Evaluation of the East and Southern Africa Ministerial Commitment on Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents and Young People

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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. 

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