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SRHR for All: JOICFP Advancing SRHR Movement in Japan and Abroad

[UPDATED] As a national NGO with a 50-year dedication to family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights, JOICFP (Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning) commits to intensifying efforts to realize the ICPD Program of Action by; focusing to reach underserved and hard-to-reach populations in Africa and Asia, capacity building of service providers through trainings and workshops, mobilizing the youth to be peer activists, and raising awareness of...

(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.

Modes of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

Menstrual Health Management Innovation with Refugees in Kakuma, Kenya

Parsons School of Design is committed to working with UNFPA and refugees in Kakuma, Kenya to develop innovative approaches to menstrual health management and environmental sustainability. We are committed to developing in consort with women in Kakuma reusuable, menstrual undergarments that provide an alternative to single-use/disposable sanitary pads. The high absorbency underwear offers women a new, all-in-one, dignified, sustainable alternative to costly and environmentally damaging single...

(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

Providing sustainable and affordable access to heat-stable carbetocin for the prevention of post-partum haemorrhage in LMICs

Millions of poor underserved women risk their lives giving life. Excessive bleeding after childbirth (PPH) is the leading direct cause of preventable maternal death, causing est. 70,000 deaths per year , 99% in low- and lower-middle income countries. For the prevention of PPH, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends for all births the use of an effective uterotonic during the third stage of labour for the stimulation of uterine contraction. Oxytocin is the first-choice drug for...

(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.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Government of the State of Eritrea's Commitment

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

Government of the State of Eritrea's Commitment

1. Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, and universal availability of quality, accessible, affordable and safe modern contraceptives.  

2. 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...

(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.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Strengthen the fight towards zero tolerance of Gender-Based violence

By offering financial support to new livelihoods and agricultural methods among rural women we ensure that we are creating a better world where women and girls have access to sustainable income and are safe from any form of violence. Poverty and gender-based violence are interlinked and thus we endeavour our projects to be executed by local organizations that guarantee broad contextual knowledge and sustainable way of working for the good for women and girls. 

Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation by 2030.

We commit to accelerating efforts to ensure the global abandonment of the FGM practice by 2030 by ensuring that young women, girls, and the community actively stand against the practice. The empowerment of women and girls is widely recognized as key to development towards the attainment of SDG 5 on gender equality.

In the Kisii and Nyamira counties in Kenya, we strive to provide alternative rite-of-passage for girls not to undergo FGM through the holiday training program rolled-out...

(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:

• Programmatic action

Equitable access to integrated and quality sexual and reproductive health information and services for women, men, young people and vulnerable populations without discrimination

By 2022, ABUBEF commit to provide quality sexual and reproductive health information and services through 

• Demand creation activities for reproductive health services at the community level (social mobilization campaign and Social and Behavior Change communication actions,)
•  Community-based service provision (community-based distribution and community outreach) and enhanced health clusters.
• Advocacy for an enabling environment for family...
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  (2) Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, and universal availability of quality, affordable and safe modern contraceptives.

  Mode of engagement:

  • Programmatic action

Using Power of innovation to increase access to reproductive health and family planning information.

Our commitment is to using the power of innovation and technology to increasing access to reproductive health/family planning information and education to at last 100 000 adolescents and young people in West Africa by 2023. 

Demographic Dividend monitoring in Africa

In partnership with UNFPA and the UNECA, the CREG commits to putting its expertise at the benefit of countries to help them to implement the entire ICPD conclusions and the AU's DD roadmap. This is to ensure a proper harnessing of demographic potential in African countries.

This commitment will be through training, capacity building, policy dialogue and creating a pool of expertise in the countries in order to provide pieces of evidence on DD monitoring. For instance, it is a question...

(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.

Modes of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action