Norway's pledge to fulfill the Cairo Promise (ICPD PoA) in a fragile world
Commitment description:In addition to Norway's main pledge (1), the Norwegian Government commits to the overall goal of ensuring the basic needs and rights of the affected population, including their SRHR needs, as critical components of humanitarian response. Norway’s humanitarian strategy gives strong priority to protection against SGBV. During the strategy period, Norway will increase its support towards preventing SGBV and to follow up the survivors. Priority will be given to improving the protection of women and children who are at risk of human trafficking, child and forced marriage and organised prostitution.
Norway commits too:
• Provide NOK 1 billion in funding for protection against SGVB and provision of sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian crises for the period 2019-2021.
• Work with humanitarian partners to strengthen prevention and response to SGBV in humanitarian crises
• Raise the issue systematically with all partners that receive humanitarian assistance from Norway, including at board meetings of funds and programmes, and in other relevant contexts. Fulfil Norway’s commitments made at the international conference “Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Crises”
Women Peace and Security
In line with the Norwegian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2019-2022, we will be particularly aware of the needs of refugees and internally displaced persons, women of reproductive age, children born of war and women and men subjected to discrimination of different kinds. For example on the basis of sexual orientation, ethnic and religious identity or impaired functional ability.
We commit to increase the proportion of Norwegian development assistance to countries in conflict and post-conflict marked with a gender marker to no less than the UN goal of 15 % in peacebuilding.
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.
