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Empower young people to attain good physical and mental health and well-being throughout investment in CSE

We will continue to invest in comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) to prepare and empower young people to attain good physical and mental health and wellbeing throughout adolescent and young adulthood. We will advocate to create an enabling atmosphere and different platforms where vulnerable young people can get access to comprehensive, quality, youth friendly, and confidential SRH services and information by 2030

Mobilizing resources for the ICPD PoA

Mobilize the required financing to finish the ICPD Programme of Action and sustain the gains already made by packaging some activities into projects that can be considered to secure funding from national and international sources to improve the quality of life of the younger population, skills development and strengthening institutions responsible for the implementation ICPD programme of action by 2025.
Strengthen the capacity of planners to integrate population issues into sectoral...

(6) Using national budget processes, including gender budgeting and auditing, increasing domestic financing and exploring new, participatory and innovative financing instruments and structures to ensure full, effective and accelerated implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.

Modes of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial
• Programmatic action

Contribution to the reduction of unintended adolescent pregnancy

By 2025, Plan International will contribute to the reduction of unintended adolescent pregnancy through consistent advocacy targeted at governments, donors, humanitarian and development actors, and community and religious leaders to ensure the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all. This will include:
• implementing multi-million, multi-year, gender-responsive, SRHR programmes in all regions in which we work, with particular focus on improving access to sexual and...

(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:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

Committing to ensure zero gender based violence and zero female genital mutilation by 2030

As a youth champion, I will create platforms that enable young people to report cases of abuse and run campaigns to encourage the use of such platforms through support seminars, conferences and similar events to promote youth participation and create more awareness

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

The Verdefam - Cape Verdean Association for the Protection of the Family - created in 1995, is a full member of the IPPF, has become established as a privileged partner of public services in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health by complementing the actions developed with a focus on the target audience with greater difficulties in accessing the services, both from the point of view of culture as a physicist, either through opening of information centers in some communities and also of...

(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

Responding to Sexual Gender Based Violence at all levels

1. Utilize social contracting and ensure NGOs lead responses to ending Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) at community level.

2. Ensure robust community engagement including starting indigenous movements on SGBV, to galvanize and mobilize communities to respond to SGBV.

3. Mainstream gender equality conversations. Stop the silence on SGBV!

The Government of Sierra Leone will diversify the SRHR resource base through sustainable financing by 2020 Achieving universal access to SRHR as part of universal health coverage (UHC); reduce adolescent birth rates from 125.1/1000 (2013) to 74/1000

Specifically, the Government of Sierra Leone commits to:
Diversify the resource base for SRHR through a proportion of xx% of the health budget for the next national budget
Confirm increased health budget to 10% in 2020 and 15% by 2020;
Mobilize the required resources for the financing of the full ICPD agenda, and in particular of the “three zeros”.
The full implementation of the newly amended sexual offences Act (of Sierra Leone)
Ensure universal access to SRHR...

(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

By year 2030, to raise awareness of the guiding role of parents in the context of sexual education of their children and to advocate for institutional guarantees of parental consent.

Firstly, we want to clearly state that we do not agree on the language proposed by Organizers of the Summit in the ‘Commitments’, titles and descriptions of Sessions. There is no binding treaty which would impose the introduction the ‘comprehensive sex education’ on Member States. Moreover, although the Cairo Conference urged states to implement education on sexuality for children and young people, it underlined the guiding role of parents in this context. Additionally, there are other types...

(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:

• Policy and guidance

National Independent Church of Africa (NICA)

The National Independent Church of Africa (NICA) is a church organization founded in Kenya in 1964. NICA has been advocating for elimination of gender-based violence, harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and child marriage, for over 15 years.
We believe that all human beings are made in the image and likeness of God. We also believe that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, whom we receive from God, and there we are not our own.
On this occasion of the...

(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.

Prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence through men enagaement

SHE Maldives is committed to empower men and boys to be partners, role-models and change makers in tackling sexual and gender based violence, and by 2030 to have a strong team of at least 100 champions advocating against GBV.