INTRODUCTION

• The United Nations Fund for Population Activities was established as a trust
fund in 1967 and began operations in 1969.
• In 1987, it was officially renamed the United Nations Population Fund,
reflecting its lead role in the United Nations system in the area of population.
 UNFPA
• UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. The
mission of UNFPA is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted,
every childbirth is safe, every young person's potential is fulfilled and every
girl and women is treated with respect.
 GOAL OF UNFPA
• The goal of UNFPA is ensure reproductive rights for all.
• To accomplish this, UNFPA works to ensure that all people, especially women
and young people, are able to access high-quality sexual and reproductive
health services, including voluntary family planning, so that they can make
informed and voluntary choices about their sexual and reproductive lives.
 FUNDS AND GOVERNS OF UNFPA

• UNFPA is entirely supported by voluntary contributions of donor governments,

intergovernmental organizations, the private sector, foundations and
individuals, not by the United Nations regular budget.
• The executive board is composed of 36 members: eight from Africa, seven
from Asia and the Pacific, four from Eastern Europe, five from Latin America
and the Caribbean, and 12 from Western Europe and other developed
countries.
 UNFPA SUPPORTS
• Reproductive health care for women and youth in more than 150 countries
which are at home, to more than 80 per cent of the world’s population.
• The health of pregnant women, especially the 1 million who face life-
threatening complications each month.
• Reliable access to modern contraceptives sufficient to benefit 20
million women a year.
• Training of thousands of health workers to help ensure at least 90 per cent of
all childbirths are supervised by skilled attendants.
• Prevention of gender-based violence, which affects 1 in 3 women.
• Abandonment of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls
annually.
• Prevention of teen pregnancies, complications of which are the leading
cause of death for girls 15-19 years old.
• Efforts to end child marriage, which could affect an estimated 70 million girls
over the next 5 years.
• Delivery of safe birth supplies, dignity kits and other life-saving materials to
survivors of conflict and natural disaster.
• Censuses, data collection and analyses, which are essential for
development planning.
 FUNCTIONS OF UNFPA

• UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the
vast majority of the world’s people.
• Its mission is to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe
and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
Sexual and reproductive health

Family planning:-
• UNFPA works to support family planning by
• ensuring a steady, reliable supply of quality contraceptives
• strengthening national health systems; advocating for policies supportive of
family planning.
• gathering data to support this work.
HIV AIDS:-
UNFPA’s approach to HIV is based around three strategies:
• Promoting human rights and reducing inequalities
• Integrating HIV responses into sexual and reproductive health care
• Preventing sexual transmission of HIV.

Maternal health:-
• UNFPA works around the world with governments, health experts and civil
society to train health workers, improve the availability of essential medicines
and reproductive health services, strengthen health systems, and promote
international maternal health standards.
Midwifery:-
• Since 2008, UNFPA has worked with partners, governments and policymakers
to help build a competent, well-trained and well-supported midwifery
workforce in low-resource settings. UNFPA focuses on four key areas:
-strengthening competency-based midwifery training
-developing strong regulatory mechanisms to ensure quality services
-raising the voices of midwives by establishing and strengthening midwifery
associations
-advocating for increased investments in midwifery services.
Obstetric fistula:-
• UNFPA provides strategic vision, technical guidance and support, medical
supplies, training and funds for fistula prevention, treatment and social
reintegration programmes.
• UNFPA also strengthens reproductive health care and emergency obstetric
services to prevent fistula from occurring in the first place.

Sexual and reproductive health:-

• Every individual has the right to make their own choices about their sexual
and reproductive health. UNFPA, together with a wide range of partners,
works toward the goal of universal access to sexual and reproductive health
and rights, including family planning.
YOUNG PEOPLE
Adolescent pregnancy:-
• Adolescent pregnancy is generally not the result of a deliberate choice –
these girls often have little say over decisions affecting their lives. Rather,
early pregnancy is a consequence of little or no access to school,
information or health care. UNFPA works to address these issues by focusing
on the protection and fulfilment of girls’ rights.
• This includes supporting comprehensive sexuality education, sexual and
reproductive health care to help girls to avoid pregnancy.
• UNFPA also advocates supporting girls who become pregnant so they can
return to school and reach their full potential.
Child marriage:-
• UNFPA promotes policies, programmes and legislation designed to end child
marriage.
• It supports evidence-based, girl-centred investments that empower girls with
the information, skills and services they need to be healthy, educated and
safe, helping them make a successful transition to adulthood.
• It also works to support the needs of married girls particularly in family
planning and maternal health.

Youth leadership and partnership:-

• When empowered and given the right opportunities, youth are effective
drivers of change.
• UNFPA partners with young people, helping them participate in decisions
affecting them, and strengthening their ability to advance human rights and
development issues such as health, education and employment.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY
Engaging men and boys:-
• UNFPA works with men and boys around the world to advance gender
equality and end violence.
• These programmes are encouraging men and boys to abandon harmful
stereotypes, embrace respectful, healthy relationships, and support the
human rights of all people, everywhere.

Female genital mutilation:-

• UNFPA, jointly with UNICEF, leads the largest global programme to
accelerate the abandonment of FGM.
• The programme currently focuses on 17 African countries and also supports
regional and global initiatives.
• Gender based violence:-
• UNFPA is one of the UN's lead agencies working to further gender equality
and women’s empowerment, and to address the physical and emotional
consequences of gender-based violence.
• UNFPA’s programmes offer psychosocial assistance, medical treatment and
rape kits to survivors, and promote the right of all women and girls to live free
of violence and abuse.

• Gender equality:-
• For more than 30 years, UNFPA has advocated for women and girls,
promoting legal and policy reforms and gender-sensitive data collection,
and supporting initiatives that improve women's and girls' health and expand
their choices in life.
Human rights:-
• Protecting the rights – including sexual and reproductive health and rights –
of all people is a precondition for individual well-being and sustainable
development.
• UNFPA works to empower individuals and communities to claim their rights
through various strategies, including awareness-raising, trainings, life-skills
projects and working with national human rights institutions.
• UNFPA also works with governments to help them fulfil their human rights
obligations under regional and international agreements.

Gender- biased sex selection:-

• UNFPA is calling for renewed attention to the issue at a global level, and is
accelerating efforts to develop programmes and policies that end all forms
of discrimination, including son preference and gender-biased sex selection.
POPULATION
Ageing:-
• UNFPA works to raise awareness about population ageing and the need to
harness its opportunities and address its challenges.
• UNFPA also supports research and data collection to provide a solid base for
policies and planning, and makes sure ageing issues are integrated into
national development programmes and poverty reduction strategies.

Census:-
• UNFPA aims to make sure no country fails to carry out a census because of
financial or technical constraints.
• UNFPA provides technical support during all stages of a national census, and
helps ensure the data are widely utilized and disseminated for development.
Climate change:-
• UNFPA is working with governments and other partners to better understand
population dynamics, how they affect the changing climate and how
people can become resilience in the face of these changes. Only with this
knowledge can policymakers take on this gravest of challenges.

Migration:-
• UNFPA works to increase understanding of migration issues, advocate for
better migration data, and promote the incorporation of migration into
national development plans.
• UNFPA also advocates for addressing the special concerns of women and
other vulnerable migrants, and works to meet the emergency reproductive
health needs of refugees and internally displaced people.
Urbanization:-
• UNFPA works with partners in government, the UN system and civil society to
advocate for the welfare and sustainability of rapidly urbanizing
communities.
• UNFPA’s works includes ensuring people’s access to essential services,
particularly sexual and reproductive health care, as they move to and live in
urban areas.

World population trend:-

• UNFPA helps countries identify and understand such trends, which are critical
to development.
• It is one of the world’s largest funders of population data collection.
• It also advises countries that the best way to ensure sustainable
development is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every
birth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled
 CONCLUSION
UNFPA calls for the realization of reproductive rights for all and supports access
to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services – including
voluntary family planning, maternal health care and comprehensive sexuality
education.