All Commitments made by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

UNFPA supports:

    1. Reproductive health care for women and youth in more than 150 countries – which are home to more than 80 per cent of the world’s population
    2. The health of pregnant women, especially the 1 million who face life-threatening complications each month
    3. Reliable access to modern contraceptives sufficient to benefit 20 million women a year
    4. Training of thousands of health workers to help ensure at least 90 per cent of all childbirths are supervised by skilled attendants
    5. Prevention of gender-based violence, which affects 1 in 3 women
    6. Abandonment of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls annually
    7. Prevention of teen pregnancies, complications of which are the leading cause of death for girls 15-19 years old
    8. Efforts to end child marriage, which could affect an estimated 70 million girls over the next 5 years
    9. Delivery of safe birth supplies, dignity kits and other life-saving materials to survivors of conflict and natural disaster
    10. Censuses, data collection and analyses, which are essential for development planning

Read more: https://www.unfpa.org/

Eliminate Stigma and Discrimination
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Stereotypes, attitudes and behaviours

  • UNFPA commits to disseminate recommendations to address stigma and discrimination from new global research: Young Persons with Disabilities: Global Study on Ending Gender-based Violence and Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Integrate work that addresses stereotypes, attitudes and behaviours on disability, through the Organization’s core programmes on maternal health, family planning, STI/HIV prevention and response, Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), gender based violence and harmful practices
  • Commit to developing a UNFPA Disability Strategy to support mainstreaming disability inclusiveness in corporate policies and programmes 

Timeframe and/or implementation plan           

  • Global Study dissemination: September 2018 – September 2019
  • Address stereotypes, attitudes and behaviors regarding disability through programmes being implemented during current Strategic Plan period 2018-2022
  • Develop first draft of Disability Study by end of 2018, finalize draft in early 2019, implement from 2019 onwards
Theme: Eliminate Stigma and Discrimination
Year: 2018
Inclusive Education
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Policy, standards and regulations

  • Develop Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) Guide for out of school programmes, with a disability component
  • Continue to advocate for CSE curricula and programmes that are inclusive of disability, though UNFPA’s on-going advocacy and support to countries on CSE

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: 

  • CSE Guide for out of school programmes to be launched and disseminated starting December 2018
  • Advocacy for CSE to be inclusive of disability will continue throughout UNFPA’s current Strategic Plan period (2018-2022)
Theme: Inclusive Education
Year: 2018
Data Disaggregation
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Commit to use the Washington Group questions 

  • Within the new UNFPA Census Strategy, UNFPA commits to advocating for collection of data on disability in all 2020 round of censuses, using the core Washington Group questions on disability 

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: Implementation of this commitment will take place throughout the course of the current UNFPA Strategic Plan period (2018 – 2022)

Theme: Data Disaggregation
Year: 2018
Women and Girls with Disabilities
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  • Launch Guidelines for Providing Rights-based and Gender-responsive Services to Address Gender-based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Women and Young People with Disabilities
  • UNFPA and Women Enabled International developed these comprehensive guidelines to support programmes providing the full range of sexual and reproductive health services and GBV prevention and response services for women and young persons with disabilities
  • Integrate disability inclusiveness through the Organization’s core programmes on maternal health, family planning, STI/HIV prevention and response, CSE, gender based violence and harmful practices 

Timeframe and/or implementation plan (75 words limit)

  • Guidelines to be launched in September 2018 and rolled out throughout UNFPA’s current Strategic Plan period (2018-2022) including with UNFPA Regional Offices and Country Offices
  • Strengthening disability inclusiveness throughout UNFPA’s programmes on sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender issues including preventing and responding to gender based violence and harmful practices, during current Strategic Plan period 2018-2022    
Theme: Women and Girls with Disabilities
Year: 2018
People with disabilities in Humanitarian Contexts
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  • UNFPA commits to signing the Humanitarian Disability Charter, developed during the World Humanitarian Summit (2016)
  • UNFPA commits to strengthening disability inclusion within the design and implementation of sexual and reproductive health and rights programing in humanitarian contexts

Timeframe and/or implementation plan: This commitment will be undertaken throughout UNFPA’s current Strategic Plan period (2018-2022)

Theme: Conflict and Humanitarian Contexts
Year: 2018