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The End is in Sight

Annual Report 2009 for the UNFPA/UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

The Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting is currently being implemented in 12 countries: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda. The annual report highlights some of the achievements, challenges as well as best practices for the abandonment of FGM/C and emphasizes the importance of continued partnerships with governments, media, civil society organizations and religious leaders.
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Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention 2009

  UNFPA has been tracking donor support for contraceptives and condoms for STI/HIV prevention since 1990. This annual report is intended to enhance coordination among partners at all levels and to continue progress toward universal access to sexual and reproductive health, as set forth in the ICPD Programme of Action and, subsequently, the Millennium Development Goals.
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The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010

This annual report presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the MDGs. With just 5 years remaining to meet the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the report warns that despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met.
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Revised Cost Estimates for the Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD

A Methodological Report

  This report present s the methodologies used to produce updated and improved global estimates of the resource requirements to achieve the objectives of the ICPD and MDGs, taking the estimates developed in 1994 as the departure point.
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A Guide to Tools for Assessments in Sexual and Reproductive Health

This guide provides clear and concise information on the strengths and limitations of some of the most commonly used methodologies for making assessments in sexual and reproductive health. We have tried to make it user-friendly for the busy programme manager. The guide can be read as a whole, but also can be used to look at certain methodologies and find information on specific characteristics of a single methodology.
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Reducing Inequities

Ensuring Universal Access to Family Planning as a Key Component of Sexual and Reproductive Health

This brochure reflects a consensus of 40 international experts who convened in New York on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development. Together they reviewed evidence and developed recommendations on how to reduce inequities in access to family planning and other sexual and reproductive health services, particularly for disadvantaged populations. These actions are urgently needed to accelerate progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.  
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Beijing at 15

UNFPA and Partners Charting the Way Forward

UNFPA and partners have been working in coordination and concert to address the 12 Areas of Critical Concern endorsed at the Fourth World Conference on Women. This document highlights that work and progress made.
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The Maternal Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2009

Accelerating Progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5

UNFPA's Maternal Health Thematic Fund, initiated in early 2008, represent a focused effort to accelerate progress towards saving women's lives and achieving universal access to reproductive health, as outlined in Millennium Development Goal 5. This report outlines the activities, results and achievements from 2009 and looks ahead at future challenges.
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A Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming

Practical Information and Training Materials

This Manual, produced through a collaboration between UNFPA and the Harvard School of Public Health, provides step-by-step guidance on how to apply a culturally sensitive, gender-responsive, human rights-based approach to programming in each of UNFPA’s three core areas of work: population and development, reproductive health, and  gender. It also covers how to apply such an approach in the context of a humanitarian emergency. An accompanying set of Training Materials are also available for download.
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Reducing Maternal Mortality

The contribution of the right to the highest attainable standard of health

In recent years, there has been increased recognition that reducing maternal mortality is not just an issue of development, but also an issue of human rights. Preventable maternal mortality occurs where there is a failure to give effect to the rights of women to health, equality and non-discrimination. Preventable maternal mortality also often represents a violation of a woman’s right to life.
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