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National commitments of the Government of Sweden on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the adoption of the Programme of Action

Twenty-five years after its landmark adoption, the Government of Sweden remains deeply committed to the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The Government of Sweden is therefore pleased to make the following commitments on the occasion of the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25:

Progressive normative stakeholder

Sweden is pleased to align itself with the Nairobi Statement on ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise, which...

(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.

FutureLife-Now! Empowered adolescents making responsible and informed decisions and choices

We commit to contributing to Chapter VII, Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health (Section E Adolescents) of the ICPD Programme of Action through the SADC FutureLife-Now! programme by:
Ensuring education sector policies across the SADC region's 16 Member States include access by learners to adolescent-friendly HIV and SRHR services and support and that these policies are harmonised with health sector school health policies by 2022;
Improving delivery of scientifically...

(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:

• Programmatic action

Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC), by committing to strive for

1) Accélérer la mise en œuvre des précédents engagements pris au Caire en 1994 et dans le cadre d’autres Sommets.
2) Faire de la République Centrafricaine un pays où l’accès aux services de santé de qualité est assuré pour toutes les couches sociales, avec la pleine participation de la population dans le cadre de la couverture santé universelle.
3) D'ici 2030, sécuriser tous les accouchements pour toutes les femmes quel que soit leurs origines ethniques, religieuse et leur...

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.

Modes of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial
• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

IPPF will champion reproductive freedom and stand firm against reproductive coercion by advocating for safe and legal abortion

By 2022, IPPF will champion reproductive freedom and stand firm against reproductive coercion by advocating for safe and legal abortion and by defeating obstacles that undermine women’s reproductive autonomy. We will influence 20 governments to establish new or revised policy initiatives or to pass legislative changes in support of improved access to abortion.

Accelerate universal access to safe abortion

By 2022, IPPF will accelerate universal access to safe abortion by expanding the provision of quality and women- centred comprehensive abortion care, with a focus on implementing innovative strategies to reach underserved populations; providing support to women to self-manage medical abortion and improving access to and availability of medical abortion commodities

Countdown 2030 Europe commits to hold European Donor Governments and the European Commission to account on financial and policy commitments to Sexual Reproductive Health and Family Planning

As a leading network of 15 European NGOs working to address the global unmet need for family planning, Countdown 2030 Europe commits to:

- Encourage 12 European Donor Governments and European Commission to increase or sustain financial commitments to Sexual Reproductive Health and Family Planning (SRH/FP) in Overseas Development Aid and new funding modalities, and champion SRH/FP in policy commitments at national, regional and global levels by 2030.

- Deliver yearly data-...

(7) Increasing international financing for the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action, to complement and catalyze domestic financing, in particular of sexual and reproductive health programmes, and other supportive measures and interventions that promote gender equality and girls’ and women’s empowerment.

training helth care workers on patients' rights related with reproductive and sexual health

Ministry of Health employees, lawyers registered in the bar associations of various provinces, students of law faculties, students studying in health-related professions (400 people in a year). Priority will be given to employees, lawyers and students working in provinces that do not have access to patient rights training. These trainings will be based on rights in sexual and reproductive health (eg right to access to services, right of access to HIV services, LGBT / I individuals, asylum...

(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:

• Programmatic action

LEGISTLATION

My commitment is to follow up with the parliament to ensure that legislation that put in place in the Kenya's parliament is known to the public . This will ensure that the members of parliament are put to task to ensure implementation.

Making family planning and sexual and reproductive health services accessible to population staying in remote areas.

Through the above statement, we commit to avail Family Planning services at the health center we work with so that people in that area will have easy access to quality services.

Addressing gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation

I commit to strive to ensure that implementation of programming around addressing gender based violence and harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation are given priority in the community and that this programming will target the most vulnerable populations; women and girls and equip them with adequate information to effectively enable them to advance their rights, demand for better response to cases, demand for improved services for survivors of...

(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:

• Programmatic action