United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) - Institutional Support 2018-2021

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The UNFPA uses these funds along with other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate. UNFPA’s mandate is to support countries in using population data to develop policies and programs that reduce poverty and ensure that every pregnancy is wanted every birth is safe every young person is free of HIV and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. UNFPA focuses on three main areas: reproductive health and rights gender equality and population and development strategies. Canada’s support to UNFPA contributes to increasing access to reproductive health developing development policies that take population dynamics into account and improving the status of girls and women worldwide.

The expected results for this project as stated by the United Nations Population Fund in its 2018-2021 strategic plan include: (1) every woman adolescent and youth everywhere especially those furthest behind has utilized integrated sexual and reproductive health services and exercised reproductive rights free of coercion discrimination and violence; (2) every adolescent and youth in particular adolescent girls is empowered to have access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in all contexts; (3) gender equality the empowerment of all women and girls and reproductive rights are advanced in development and humanitarian settings; and (4) everyone everywhere is counted and accounted for in the pursuit of sustainable development.