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Increased Retention of Girls in School

Okay Africa Foundation commits to improving girls’ retention in schools by involving boys/men in creating awareness on menstruation to reduce and end period stigma

endinng early and unintended pregnancy

As malawi girl guides association , as we leave this place ,we commit
1. To work with parents to ensure girls remain in school
2. To work with boys and girls to delay sex and if NOT, to use contraceptives including condoms to prevent early and unintended pregnancies.
we stand against early and unintended pregnancy - This is our commitment today

BCARE FAMILY PLANNING & INFORMATION SERVICES

Aims and Objectives: BCARE’s AIDS RIDE is a powerful advocacy tool for the community mobilization at all levels! The aim was to create an environment, achieving zero unmet need for family planning information and services, zero preventable maternal deaths, and zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices against women and girls and more specifically to embody in our actions the theme of the ICPD.

Bayer stepping up its commitment towards SDG 3.7.1

Bayer’s long-term commitment to family planning will be reinforced in accordance to the ICPD Programme of Action and 2030 SDGs. The company has been supporting family-planning programs with a broad range of hormonal contraception methods for many years. In addition to oral contraceptives, these products include monthly and three-monthly injections as well as a contraceptive implant. Increasing demand in low -and low middle income countries has been seen particularly regarding longacting,...

(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.

Modes of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial
• Programmatic action

Increasing contraceptive uptake and reduction in teenage pregnancies among women and girls living in underserved urban communities.

The Gates Institute, through TCI, is committed to increasing its coverage to 140 million people over the next five years leading to an estimated 3 million additional family planning users and reduction in teenage pregnancy in undeserved urban locations.

In less than three years, The Challenge Initiative has demonstrated that its “business unusual” approach to family planning scale, impact and sustainability works and is changing the way business is done in the development landscape....

(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

Harnessing the demographic dividend through investing in adolescents’ and youth’s education, employment opportunities and health, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health and services

1. To provide financial and technical support in conducting Generations and Gender Survey in addressing demographic changes and building intergenerational solidarity.
2. To develop and implement people-centered and data-driven demographic and family-friendly policies for harnessing the opportunity of the Demographic Dividend.

CIFF’s commitment to invest US$75 million for user-led sexual and reproductive healthcare in support of ICPD+25

For the last five years, CIFF has been investing in programmes to provide adolescents and young people with more opportunities to control their sexual and reproductive health. During this time, we have invested over $250 million US Dollars to empower young people with information services and products to prevent unplanned pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and HIV – often co-funded with other Foundations and Governments.

In support of the ICPD Programme of Action, we are pleased to announce...

(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.

Modes of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial
• Programmatic action

Zero sexual and gender-based violence

1. To improve data collection, analysis, dissemination and use of data on Gender-based Violence in the health system.
2. To ratify the Istanbul Convention and implement Standard Operating Procedures on Gender-Based Violence based on UN Global Essential Services.

Ensure access for adolescents and youth to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, education adn adolescents friendly quality and timely services

1. To scale up prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV among adolescents and youth by ensuring access to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services.
2. To reduce adolescents pregnancy at least by 30% in 2025, especially in rural area using the network of youth-friendly health clinics

Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities

Reduce maternal mortality ratio to 13.3 per 100,000 live births by 2030 reaching the SDG target