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Support for CSE in six Pacific countries
Commitment description:Comprehensive sexuality education is key to ensuring people have the information they need to make informed decisions about their health and the direction of their lives. By 2022, Australia will support six Pacific countries to update all comprehensive sexuality education/family life education curricula to align with international standards.
(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.
Assisting Pacific countries to meet family planning needs
Commitment description:Australia will continue to support partner governments of six Pacific countries to reduce unmet need for family planning. Our Transformative Agenda for Women, Adolescents and Youth initiative in partnership with UNFPA, will progressively reduce the unmet need for family planning information and services, and build more conducive and supportive environments for people to access and benefit from these services.
(2) Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, and universal availability of quality, affordable and safe modern contraceptives.
White Ribbon Alliance Commitment to Deliver What Women Want through 2030: “Listening to women is radical; acting on their demands is revolutionary.”
Commitment description:White Ribbon Alliance, a global network of advocates for reproductive, maternal and newborn health and rights, commits to moving from making the voices of women’s and adolescent girls’ more loudly heard as part of the What Women Want campaign, to demanding and taking action that places health power and decision-making squarely with women and girls. What Women Want asked more than 1.2 million women and girls worldwide their top demand for their reproductive and maternal health. They... (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.
Campaigning for access to safe abortion achieve zero preventable maternal deaths by 2030
Commitment description:The International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion commits to campaigning for the following to achieve zero preventable maternal deaths by 2030: - Decriminalisation of abortion in recognition that safe abortion is necessary to achieve gender equality and women’s/girls’ right to life and health.
- Universal access to safe abortion in every country
- Availability of safe abortion at the woman’s/girl’s request
(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
Programme effectiveness and quality insurance
Commitment description:STP commits to intensify the efforts to accelerate its implementation and funding over next decade, and, consequently achieve the 2030 SDG Agenda. As vocally expressed at the National Conference on PopDEV held the country reiterated its commitment to: (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.
Ensure universal access to SRH health services and rights as part of universal health coverage as specified in the 2019-2023 Integrated RMNIA Health Strategy seeking to: Decrease the maternal mortality by 1/3 by 2030 through investments...Modes of engagement:
Intensifying our efforts for the full implementation of ICPD Programme of Action
Commitment description:• Reducing humanitarian need is a priority for Ireland’s international development co-operation. SRHR in emergencies are critical for protecting public health and providing the basis for a healthy future. Ireland’s commitment to strengthen our response to humanitarian crises will include increased focus on SRHR in protecting public health in emergency settings.
(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:
- Policy and guidance
Intensifying our efforts for the full implementation of ICPD Programme of Action
Commitment description:• FGM is illegal in Ireland under the Criminal Justice (Female Genital Mutilation Act) 2012. Under the Act, it is a criminal offence for a person living in Ireland to perform FGM or to take a girl to another country to undergo FGM. The Government of Ireland commits to continuing to raise awareness in Ireland of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), to fostering collaboration between networks representing migrant women living in Ireland and An Garda Síochána, the national police force and to... (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:
Intensifying our efforts for the full implementation of ICPD Programme of Action
Commitment description:• The Government of Ireland is committed to changing societal attitudes to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, to improving services to survivors of violence, and holding perpetrators to account. We commit to adopting a whole of government approach to ending gender based violence through support for the implementation of the Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence 2016-2021. We commit to collaboration between State agencies and the community and... (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:
Intensifying our efforts for the full implementation of ICPD Programme of Action
Commitment description:• The Government of Ireland commits to reducing the gender gap in employment and the gender pay gap. The Government of Ireland commits to take action to support increased access to education, training and employment opportunities for social excluded women, particularly those living in poverty and Traveller and Roma women, to encouraging increased action by businesses on equality and diversity, and to provide support for female entrepreneurship, including in rural communities. • The... (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:
Intensifying our efforts for the full implementation of ICPD Programme of Action
Commitment description:• In Ireland’s new international development policy, the Taoiseach reaffirmed our commitment to delivering 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income to Official Development Assistance by 2030. That policy, A Better World, has gender equality as one of its four overarching themes. This policy and financing commitment will support the implementation of our international development cooperation including in advancing the ICPD programme of action and sustaining the gains made to date.
(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.
Mode of engagement:
- Budgetary and financial
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