What is UNFPA?
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities was established as a trust fund in 1967 and began funding population programmes in 1969. In 1987, it was officially renamed the United Nations Population Fund, reflecting its lead role in the UN system in the area of population. The original abbreviation, UNFPA, was retained.
For general communications, UNFPA is used as the Fund’s working title in all languages. The full name is spelled out after the first reference. Official UN documents use the full written out name.
What is the UNFPA's Goal?
UNFPA promotes the right of all individuals to develop to their fullest potential. To exercise this right, all people, especially women, need access to information and services on reproductive health, including family planning and sexual health, to enable them to make informed and voluntary choices and decisions. As reflected in our mission statement, the Fund “supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.
What is the UNFPA's Focus?
The primary focus of the UNFPA is to meet the Fifth Millenium Developmental Goal. This goals aims to reduce maternal mortality ratio by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015 and to provide universal access to reproductive health.
The Fund promotes a holistic approach to reproductive health care that includes access to a range of safe and affordable contraceptive methods and to sensitive counseling; prenatal care, attended deliveries, emergency obstetric care and post-natal care; and prevention of sexually transmitted infections by promoting safer sexual behavior.
What is the UNFPA's main approach in Philippines?
The UNFPA country office in the Philippines seeks to work hand in hand with the government on a national and local level to prevent AIDS, promote gender equality, promote safe motherhood and advocate reproductive health using facts-based evidence. Equally important to the UNFPA country office is it's relationship with a variety of NGO groups that focus on the same challenges that face the UNFPA in the Philippines.
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities was established as a trust fund in 1967 and began funding population programmes in 1969. In 1987, it was officially renamed the United Nations Population Fund, reflecting its lead role in the UN system in the area of population. The original abbreviation, UNFPA, was retained.
For general communications, UNFPA is used as the Fund’s working title in all languages. The full name is spelled out after the first reference. Official UN documents use the full written out name.
What is the UNFPA's Goal?
UNFPA promotes the right of all individuals to develop to their fullest potential. To exercise this right, all people, especially women, need access to information and services on reproductive health, including family planning and sexual health, to enable them to make informed and voluntary choices and decisions. As reflected in our mission statement, the Fund “supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.
What is the UNFPA's Focus?
The primary focus of the UNFPA is to meet the Fifth Millenium Developmental Goal. This goals aims to reduce maternal mortality ratio by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015 and to provide universal access to reproductive health.
The Fund promotes a holistic approach to reproductive health care that includes access to a range of safe and affordable contraceptive methods and to sensitive counseling; prenatal care, attended deliveries, emergency obstetric care and post-natal care; and prevention of sexually transmitted infections by promoting safer sexual behavior.
What is the UNFPA's main approach in Philippines?
The UNFPA country office in the Philippines seeks to work hand in hand with the government on a national and local level to prevent AIDS, promote gender equality, promote safe motherhood and advocate reproductive health using facts-based evidence. Equally important to the UNFPA country office is it's relationship with a variety of NGO groups that focus on the same challenges that face the UNFPA in the Philippines.