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FIGO works to ensure that no woman is left behind

Despite great progression over the past twenty-five years, there is still a huge unfinished agenda in women's health where FIGO is able to continue to strengthen, improve, monitor and audit global efforts to ensure that no-one is left behind.
FIGO commits to work with our 132 National Member Societies to:
• address maternal mortality and morbidity, including complications caused by postpartum haemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, and unsafe abortion which are the leading...

(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.

FIGO stands with migrants and refugees

FIGO’s vision is a world where all women achieve the highest possible standards of physical, mental, reproductive and sexual health. This must hold true wherever women live - and in a world of increasing migration, including in the healthcare community itself - wherever they are forced to go.
In FIGO’s experience, health often takes a lower priority after food and protection in these situations. Medications run out, emergency visits are not available, and attending to pregnancy and...

(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.

End Child Marriage, Sexual & Gender - Based Violence

The organization is commitment to strive for reduction of child marriage and sexual & gender-based violence, by:
- developing faith-based framework as the key approaches.
- promoting awareness on committed issues
- build capacities for local champions to advocate for local by laws and to educate people both in rural and urban areas in 20 provinces
- strengthening cooperations with local governments and related ministries

Menstrual health friendly community

We commit to working with the Government and stakeholders to collaborate for the menstrual health-friendly community with zero tolerance to menstrual discrimination. We commit to achieving that by building the capacity of young people to make rights-based informed decisions related to their menstrual health practices, and to be able to demand menstrual health-friendly community with their gatekeepers such as school management, teachers, parents, peers, community and local government.

FIGO advocated to eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls

Health services are critical for supporting survivors to heal, recover and thrive.
During FIGO World Congress in 2018 we launched FIGO’s 2018 Global Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women where we committed to undertake actions to support efforts to address the issue, recommending that FIGO National Member Societies:
• Urge their governments to implement the recommendations made by the 1994 ICPD Programme of Action and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for...

(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:

• Policy and guidance

FIGO commits to quality, rights-based contraceptive care

Increasing access to quality, rights-based contraceptive care is essential in empowering women to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health, and has a direct impact on the reduction of maternal mortality.
Since 2013, FIGO has worked through six of our National Member Societies to institutionalise the provision of postpartum family planning (PP FP) services into routine maternity care. We have trained midwives, health workers, doctors and delivery unit staff in...

(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

Reduce school drop-outs for young girls and vulnerable groups by 2024

A huge concern for the mozambican citizens is the school drop-out rate for young people, especially young girls, due to many reasons including lack of access to proper sanitation facilities, early marriages, long distances from home to school, and parents with low literacy levels who force girls to start working earlier in agriculture. We want our government to create a law that forbids girls with school age to drop-out from school, by 2024, and policies that will allow school in the whole...

(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

Policy

Adolescents and young people (10 – 24 years) account for 29% (346,916) of the population of
Mombasa County (MCASP, 2016). Their health and well-being is therefore an asset in the
development of the county. Evidence has demonstrated that this population also contributes
greatly to new HIV infections and STIs. AYP present a myriad of challenges including high rates
of teen pregnancies, drugs and substance abuse, sexual and gender based violence, high rates
of...

(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:

• Programmatic action

National Commitment of France

France is determined to accelerate the implementation of the ICPD Program of Action which cannot be reached without the inclusion of sexual health and reproductive services within the Universal health coverage. SRHR is at the core of the right to health and of sustainable development, and a necessary precondition if we want every woman and girl to live free from discrimination.

Commitment by the Irish Family Planning Association

As a leading provider of sexual and reproductive health services in Ireland, Irish Family Planning Association commits to:

• Provide quality contraception, abortion, pregnancy counselling and STI services in our clinics and comprehensive sexuality education programmes in schools and other settings
• Encourage our government to remove barriers to access to reproductive health services, enhance CSE provision, increase financial commitments to sexual and reproductive health in...

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