Commitments of the Republic of Mauritius to accelerate the promises of ICPD 25
Commitment description:The Government of Mauritius is committed to:
1. Zero unmet need for family planning information and services:
- Stepping up the postpartum family planning programme to avert unintended pregnancies
2. Zero preventable maternal deaths, and maternal morbidities:
- Strengthen Health workforce capacity.
- Strengthen the prevention programme of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS.
3. Ensuring SRHR HIV access to comprehensive information, education and services for adolescents and youth:
- Implement youth friendly STI/HIV services to reach Zero new STI/HIV infection.
4. Zero sexual and gender-based violence, including zero child, early and forced marriage:
- Pass a Gender Equality Bill, a Children’s Bill and a Disability Bill in Parliament to provide a more concerted effort to safeguard the interest of women, children and the disabled.
- Reinforce the Shared Faith Belief Programme to promote family well-being.
5. Using national budget processes, increasing domestic financing and exploring new and innovative financing instruments:
- Increase budget provision for health, education and social benefits free of user cost.
6. Building peaceful, just and inclusive societies:
- Strengthen the National Youth Civic Service aims at enhancing the employability of young people aged 17 to 25 years.
- Reinforce the Elderly Protection Unit.
7. Providing quality and disaggregated data to achieve sustainable development.
- Make available budget for the implementation of the National Strategy for Official Statistics.
8. Committing to direct involvement and youth participation in decision making:
- Set up a national ‘Assise de la Jeunesse’ as a permanent consultative mechanism for dialogue.
9. Ensuring the basic humanitarian needs of affected populations, including SRHR, are addressed:
- Strengthen the National Climate Change Risk Management Plan;
- Strengthen the National Multi Hazards Early Warning and Emergency Alert System.
Modes of engagement:
- Budgetary and financial Mauritius being a welfare state, government is committed to increase and sustain budget provision for health, education and social benefits which are provided free of user cost.
- Change or creation of legislation By passing a Gender Equality Bill, a Children’s Bill and a Disability Bill in Parliament to provide a more concerted effort to safeguard the interest of women, children and the disabled.
- Policy and guidance By reviewing and updating all the HIV policies and programmes to address structural barriers which hinder access to HIV Prevention, Care and Support Services.
- Programmatic action1. By Implementing a National Roadmap Framework to improve maternal, neonatal and child health. 2. Reinforcing the Elderly Protection Unit through public awareness and provision of assistance and protection. 3. FBO to address GBV
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts(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.
