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Commitment to supporting family planning

In 2017, the UK committed to spending on average £225m per year between 2017/18 – 2021/22 on family planning. To illustrate what this means for women, we estimated that – every year – our investment will support nearly 20m total users of contraception, prevent 6m unintended pregnancies, and so prevent more than 3m abortions, many of which would be unsafe. It will save the lives of over 6,000 women every year.

Endorsement of Guttmacher-Lancet definition of SRHR

The UK welcomes the report of the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on SRHR and its comprehensive definition of SRHR, including the associated recommended package of services. The UK Department for International Development has endorsed this definition, which expands on the original definition of SRHR agreed at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 (ICPD). It explicitly states that sexual and reproductive health is not possible without sexual and reproductive rights...

(2) Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, and universal availability of quality, affordable and safe modern contraceptives.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

Ghana's Youth Commitment

THE “NAIROBI COMMITMENTS” 
THE VOICE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GHANA

This year, as countries, organizations and world leaders prepare towards the Nairobi Summit to be held under the theme “Accelerating the promise”, UNFPA Ghana Youth Leaders Fellows and AFRIYAN Ghana have organized a consultative event for young people to deliberate and have a unified front on the commitments that is representative of young people in Ghana at the Nairobi Summit.

Universal SRHR in the context of...

(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

Strengthening relationships in the West Africa

The UK will join the Ouagadougou Partnership to solidify our commitment to working closely with others in a region where women suffer from the highest levels of maternal mortality in the world to increase choice and access to family planning across the region.

£600m Reproductive Health Supplies Programme, including £425m to a reformed UNFPA Supplies (TBC)

The UK continues to demonstrate our increased commitment for commodity availability as a key to ensuring women and girls have access to a wide range of reproductive health supplies, when they want them. This programme will also expand access to critical maternal, menstrual and newborn health commodities by accelerating rollout, cutting prices and improving availability through the full range of channels women use. This programme will provide £600 million over 2020-2025 and will buy family...

(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:

• Budgetary and financial

Self-Care Trailblazer Group (SCTG) commitment to fully implement the ICPD Programme of Action and meet the SDGs by 2030

Universal access to SRHR is a critical part of UHC. By 2030, the SCTG will ignite and build a comprehensive, evidence-based self-care agenda and movement for SRHR. Healthcare is being transformed by the development of technologies and evidence that strengthen consumers' power to take greater control and autonomy. This transformation is particularly impactful in the field of SRHR. This commitment will harness this momentum and support and amplify countries’ uptake of the WHO’s Guideline...

(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:

• Change or creation of legislation
• Policy and guidance

Gender-Based Violence

It would help in atleast slowing down gender-based violence

Protection, safety and wellbeing of activists and human rights defenders

At RESURJ, we believe that the meaningful participation of younger south feminists in all their diversity is essential in shaping and advocating for transparent, accountable, and sustainable development policies and programs. We hope that ICPD+25 can provide the inspirations and drive for young advocates and activists to continue to celebrate the transformative vision of the ICPD PoA. To this end, we are committed to fostering equal partnership including intergenerational dialogues, sharing...

(8) Investing in the education, employment opportunities, health, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, of adolescents and youth, especially girls, so as to fully harness the promises of the demographic dividend.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Accelerating efforts to realizing zero preventable maternal death

1. We commit to revitalise the Primary Health Care (PHC) system by building, reorienting and realigning the health system towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2025

2. We commit to train and deploy 500 midwives to service delivery points by 2025

3. We commit to strengthen all health facilities to provide Basic Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care BEmONC) and 6 health facilities to provide quality Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (CEmONC) services by...

(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

Improved resilience of individuals and systems – at community, national and international levels – to meet the full range of SRH needs of diverse crisis-affected populations, from preparedness to response and recovery

The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) commits to define and address global gaps in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights in humanitarian settings, including: minimum standards and the transition from the minimum initial services package (MISP) to comprehensive SRH; the neglected technical areas of contraception and logistics and supplies; and the inclusion of marginalized populations, including adolescents.

To achieve this commitment, the WRC will: undertake implementation...

(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:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action