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Her stories - Media Reporting on Gender Issues
'Her Stories' is a compilation of 48 award-winning entries reporting on four themes – Gender and Patriarchy, Right to Development, Right to Protection and Right to participation.
Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management during Emergencies
This document outlines the framework for action, highlighting the four key menstrual health and hygiene management action components and the supportive components.
Exploring Preferences, Hygienic Use and Disposal of Menstrual Materials Among Adolescent Girls
The findings from this study emphasized the need for promoting choice with regard to menstrual hygiene materials, supporting hygienic use of menstrual materials, and for developing context-appropriate disposal solutions.
Sexual and Reproductive Health in a Digital Age
Digital media are increasingly influencing the lives of young people. Around the world, adolescents are using digital media as a platform to learn, experience, and communicate. Across Asia, and increasingly in the Pacific, young people use smartphones, tablets and computers to engage in diverse online activities, such as social networking, instant messaging/texting, and browsing websites/search engines. This connectivity creates both positive opportunities but also challenges on many fronts.
UNFPA India COVID-19 Response Situation Report | January to August 2021
Our latest Situation Report covering the period from January to August 2021 encapsulates our COVID-19 response efforts across our intervention areas and beyond. UNFPA delivered 1,200 oxygen concentrators, 400,000 surgical masks, 60,000 N95 masks and 39,000 coverall PPEs to relevant authorities in the states where we operate. We reached more than 4 million people through social media and digital platforms promoting COVID-19 vaccination and COVID Appropriate Behaviour. Full details on the report.
Addressing Gender-Based Violence during COVID-19 | Stories of change from One Stop Centres (OSC)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, One Stop Centres or OSCs played a critical role in addressing the rise in gender-based violence (GBV) as a result of restricted mobility and access to essential services.
This document captures the experiences and challenges of staff working in OSCs as they respond to the needs of the survivors of GBV and the support they received from UNFPA.
COVID-19 Stories through a Gender lens
A documentation report of the Laadli Media Fellowship initiative, a collaboration between Population First and UNFPA for engaging with the media to enhance the value of women and girls.
UNFPA India Annual Report 2020
UNFPA India’s COVID-19 response was designed entirely along the key pillars of the UN’s Socioeconomic Response Framework to COVID-19, to save lives, protect societies and recover better. But it was equally important and critical to stay the course of our core mandate, of Ensuring Rights and Choices for All. What this meant was that efforts towards the three transformative results to achieve the three zeros by 2030: zero unmet need for contraception; zero preventable maternal deaths; and zero gender-based violence and harmful practices had to continue – even if there were some challenges early in the pandemic response.
Jaisalmer - Advancing health and choices
Jaisalmer, also known as the golden city of India, distinguished by its yellow sandstone architecture lies in the heart of the Thar Desert (the Great Indian Desert). It is the largest district in the state of Rajasthan with a population of about 0.6 million (Census 2011).
The golden glow of the district diminishes when we realise that it has a high incidence of home deliveries and a low percentage of antenatal and postnatal care (NFHS 2015-2016). Child marriages are rampant and the sex ratio is highly skewed (Census 2011). Jaisalmer suffers from acute shortage of human resource in the health sector particularly specialists at the secondary and tertiary healthcare level because of its remote location far from the capital city of Jaipur.
In the year 2013 UNFPA decided to take up the cudgels for women’s health in this region in partnership with the District Administration and State Health Department. This was a turning point for Jaisalmer.
The State of the World's Midwifery 2021
The State of the World’s Midwifery (SoWMy) 2021 builds on previous reports in the SoWMy series and represents an unprecedented effort to document the whole world’s Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health (SRMNAH) workforce, with a particular focus on midwives. It calls for urgent investment in midwives to enable them to fulfil their potential to contribute towards UHC and the SDG agenda.