Youth leadership & participation

Annual Report 2016 - UNFPA West & Central Africa Regional Office

No. of pages : 104
Publisher : UNFPA WCARO
Publication date : 02/01/2017
Author : UNFPA WCARO

The message is clear.

We must put young people first if we are to harness the demographic dividend, build resilience and transform our region to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the Africa We Want.

Having helped secure political will in 2016, UNFPA in WCAR intends to secure resources, advance partnerships and fully promote, support and implement interventions that put young people first in 2017 and the years ahead.

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The 11th World Congress on Adolescent Health, with the theme "Investing in Adolescent Health - the Future is Now", will be held from 27-29 October, 2017, in New Delhi.

UNFPA, a key partner of the International Association of Adolescent Health, the organizer of the congress, will be participating prominently via several panels and sessions.

Bjorn Andersson, UNFPA Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, will deliver the keynote address.

Youth in Palestine 2017

No. of pages : 31
Publisher : UNFPA Palestine
Publication date : 25/10/2017
Author : Nanki Chawla

Youth in Palestine is a report that describes the various challenges face youth in Palestine. The author, Ms. Nanki Chawla, also sets a number of recommendations that decision makers and civil society organizations can take to ensure that, at least, some of those recommendations can be met to ensure a better life for youth.

What are the policy and program recommendations to address demographic risks and opportunities can be found in this report.

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The State of World Population 2017

No. of pages : 136
Publication date : 17/10/2017
Author : United Nations Population Fund

The State of World Population 2017

Unchecked inequality, failure to protect the rights of poorest women could threaten unrest, undermine peace and world’s development goals, new UNFPA report warns

• Only about half of the world’s women hold paid jobs

• Globally, women earn 77 per cent of what men get

• Three in five women worldwide lack maternity leave, many pay “motherhood penalty”

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Adolescent girls from our project on Empowering adolescent girls with information and skills being implemented by SNEHA

"Realizing aspirations of the adolescent girls through art and one to one interaction with Senior officials" was the core focus for the International Day of the Girl Child observed at Jaipur, Rajasthan by the Directorate of Women Empowerment , Department of Women and Child Development in partnership with UNFPA and UNICEF.

Country Programme Document - Sri Lanka (2018-2022)

No. of pages : 7
Publication date : 13/10/2017
Author : UNFPA

The Country Programme Document outlines the United Nations Population Fund's mandate and scope of work for the five year period from 2018-2022.

The document has been cleared by the Ministry of National Policies and Economic Affairs.

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The theme for this year’s International Day of the Girl Child, on 11 October, “Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress: A Global Girl Data Movement”, is a call for action for increased investment in collecting and analyzing girl-focused, girl-relevant and sex-disaggregated data.

UNFPA is a key stakeholder in the rights and well-being of women and girls globally, and a key contributor to the International Day of the Girl Child and beyond.

“Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) can, of course, never be divorced from the pursuit of gender equality and equity and from the full empowerment of women. SRHR is at the center of gender relations, the full realization of SRHR cannot be achieved in the absence of gender equality and equity” - Zane Dangor

African Heads of State and Government (HoSG) have adopted a Declaration on the Demographic Dividend that further emphasizes the importance placed on the continent’s efforts to increase investments in youth. It particularly addresses the question of how this important agenda will be taken forward beyond 2017.

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