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UNFPA India Annual Report 2022
The year 2022 marked an important landmark for UNFPA in India – the successful completion of the 9th Country Programme (2018-2022), another milestone in the long list of achievements of UNFPA in the country since the first programme in 1974. It also marked the transition to the 10th Country Programme (2023-2027), which will be addressing new challenges for India in the coming five years. UNFPA will continue to concentrate its efforts in the four focus states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan.
8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices
Every member of our human family has the right to make free and informed choices about their health, bodies and futures. This right should be the starting point for all conversations about population. Population is, after all, about people, about creating the conditions for all 8 billion of us to live freely and fully, equal in dignity and rights, on a healthy, safe and prosperous planet. When we invest in people and their potential, in their rights and choices, all of humanity benefits.
Analytical Paper Series - Impact of the Mission Parivar Vikas Programme: Evidence from National Family Health Surveys
The ‘Mission Parivar Vikas’ was launched in 2016 for increasing the access to contraceptives and family planning services in the identified 146 high fertility districts in seven states, which had a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) more than 3.
UNFPA India CP-10 Brochure
The 10th country programme envisions an India where every woman and young person, including those from the most vulnerable groups, enjoys gender equality, fully realizes sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, and fully contributes to sustainable development.
Interventions For Adolescents and Youth: CP 9 (2018-2022)
As per Census 2011, 364 million people in India, or almost one-third of the country’s population, are young people aged 10-24 years and contributing 34% to the GDP. While economic growth has been unprecedented, levels of inequality and social exclusion remain significant. India ranks 122nd out of 183 countries in the 2021 Global Youth Development Index. There is increasing recognition of the need to invest in the health and development of young people, in order to harness the benefits of this demographic dividend. India’s youth face several development challenges, including access to education, gainful employment, gender inequality, child marriage, youth- friendly health services and adolescent pregnancy.
On Track | UNFPA India Newsletter | Issue #2
The second issue of 'On Track' covers a wide range of key achievements, encouraging progress and innovative initiatives undertaken by UNFPA in the third quarter towards ending preventable maternal deaths, unmet need for family planning, and gender-based violence and harmful practices.
India Profile - Ending Child Marriage
Child marriage is closely associated with poverty and is likely to increase girls’ vulnerabilities. Child marriage affects both girls and boys, but it affects girls disproportionately. Girls who marry young are often socially isolated and cut-off from family, friends and other support systems.
Analytical Paper Series 3: Women’s Ability to Decide about Sexual Relations, Contraceptive Use and Reproductive Health Care in India (SDG Indicator 5.6.1)
To achieve the SDG Goal by 2030, various types of barriers faced by women towards the utilization of sexual and reproductive health services need to be removed, including a strong push towards changes in social norms. Government policies that allow women and girls to exercise fully their reproductive rights must be prioritized.
Integrating Menstrual Health and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and menstrual health (MH) are fundamental to health, wellbeing, and gender equity. SRH and MH have deeply intertwined roots, biologically and socio-culturally; yet over the years, these integral components of health have not been addressed in conjunction, with joint programming or integration often overlooked in programs, policy and research, globally and in India.
Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls: Panchayats Leading the Way
A compendium of success stories of women-friendly panchayats of India, is to inspire all panchayats to learn and adopt similar initiatives for advancing the rights of women and girls. Stories in the compendium have been carefully selected from 17 States and two Union Territories of India and showcase how panchayats have been leading the way for empowering women and girls.