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Asia-Pacific youth commit to advocating for improved monitoring system and disaggregated data

By 2030, we, young people of Asia and the Pacific, commit to advocating our governments to invest in inclusive, responsive, transparent, and participatory monitoring, review, and accountability mechanisms for the implementation of ICPD PoA and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda at all levels.

By 2030, we commit to working with relevant stakeholders to improve monitoring systems through ensuring provision of disaggregated data according to age, gender, disability status, migration...

(10) Providing quality, timely and disaggregated data, that ensures privacy of citizens and is also inclusive of younger adolescents, investing in digital health innovations, including in big data systems, and improvement of data systems to inform policies aimed at achieving sustainable development.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

PAKISTAN NATIONAL COMMITMENT/STATEMENT FOR NAIROBI SUMMIT (ICPD25)

Commitment 1:
1.1. Ensuring universal access to FP/RH services and commodities while aiming at significantly reducing unmet need and achieving:
a. CPR from 35% (2017) to 50% by 2025 and further raising it to 60% by 2030;
b. Lowering TFR from 3.6 (2017) to 2.8 children per woman by 2025 and 2.2 children per woman by 2030;
1.2. Reducing maternal morbidity and maternal mortality ratio from 170 (2018) to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030.
1.3. Making the...

(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.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Asia-Pacific youth commit to achieving inclusive and sustainable communities

By 2030, we, young people of Asia and the Pacific, commit to advocating our governments and other stakeholders to recognize and reaffirm that human rights, gender equality, equity, social inclusion and justice, and young people’s empowerment are central to sustainable development and to the full and effective implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.

By 2030, we commit to raising awareness towards humanitarian and climate crisis, sustainable patterns of consumption and...

(9) Building peaceful, just and inclusive societies, where no one is left behind, where all, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, language, ethnic origin, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, feel valued and are able to shape their own destiny and contribute to the prosperity of their societies.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

Ageing with Dignity

We commit to improving shelter standards of over 2000 homes for the old through intergration of young,local authorities and old community members to take responsibility and help mobilize resources by the year 2022.

This is being solidified by marking international elderly days where we invite all community members and ensure they gift and voice for the rights of the elderly. This has made it easier getting support from the very community in improving standards of living for their...

(9) Building peaceful, just and inclusive societies, where no one is left behind, where all, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, language, ethnic origin, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, feel valued and are able to shape their own destiny and contribute to the prosperity of their societies.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Reaffirmation of the Youth Call-to-Action prepared at the 2018 Mid-term Review of the Asia Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Population and Development, at the ICPD25 Regional Consultation held in Bangkok.

By 2030, we, young people of Asia and the Pacific, commit to advocating for strengthening of accessible and inclusive technical and vocational education and training to young people to address the skills gap in the labor market and ensuring full and productive employment and decent work for young people.

Asia-Pacific youth commit to advocating for increasing financing in the implementation of the ICPD PoA

By 2030, we, young people of Asia and the Pacific, commit to advocating our governments to allocate adequate financing to ensure full and effective implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action by mobilizing national budgets, increasing domestic financing and exploring new and innovative financing mechanisms.

By 2030, we commit to advocating to our Ministries of Education to allocate adequate budgets in national education plans for Comprehensive Sexuality Education.

Asia-Pacific youth commit to advocating “no” to discriminating laws and policies

By 2030, we, young people of Asia and the Pacific, commit to advocating for the full implementation of existing laws and policies preventing gender-based violence and harmful practices so that it fully protects, fulfills and promotes the rights of individuals to live free from stigma, discrimination and violence, especially by legally protecting marginalized groups.

By 2030, we commit to collaborating with relevant stakeholders to review and repeal laws and policies that obstruct all...

(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

Asia-Pacific youth commit to provision of youth-friendly SRH services and information, including CSE

By 2030, we, young people of Asia and the Pacific, commit to working with relevant stakeholders to ensure that youth-friendly SRH services are stigma-free and take into this holistic definition of SRHR and recognize and address the barriers in implementation, including restrictions based on marital status or third-party authorization, lack of adequately equipped SRH facilities for young people and trained health service providers, and stigma and taboo around young people’s sexuality.

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(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and  gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

Asia-Pacific youth commit to reaffirming the Youth Call-to-Action prepared at the Mid-term Review of the Asia Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Population and Development

By 2023, we, young people of Asia and the Pacific, commit to reaffirming the Youth Call -to-Action prepared at the Mid-term Review of the Asia Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Population and Development in Bangkok in November 2018 through:
○ Moving forward with the Asia Pacific Regional Mechanism on Youth and SRHR that can serve as a coordinating body for this commitment
○ Creating database and strengthening a network of Asia-Pacific youth advocates
○ Raising awareness...

(1)  Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

Strengthen the legislative, regulatory, institutional framework and the human resource capacity to facilitate effective environmental protection and sustainable practices

Action1:By 2020, Integrate environmental protection and biodiversity conservation with the guidelines, regulations and compliance documents on land
use planning, local developments planning, building and all infrastructure development projects
Action 2: Develop regulatory framework for designating green areas in reclaimed land and islands, to improve quality of life, and as a climate change mitigation and adaptation measure