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Government of Japan commits US$ 1.3 million to help save lives of pregnant women in Zimbabwe Format …support comes in the context of COVID-19 which has stretched health resources Harare/Tokyo , 22 April 2021 – The Government of Japan and the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, have signed a US$ 1,3 million partnership grant in a project that will help save the lives of pregnant women in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is currently experiencing a humanitarian crisis caused by multiple factors, including recurring droughts and a dire economic situati...

Johannesburg, South Africa Data Analysis of the Polls conducted on the Internet of Good Things (IoGT), TuneMe and U-Report as part of the UNFPA/UNICEF collaboration on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health & HIV Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) and Report Writing   Purpose of consultancy: The COVID-19 pandemic is a situation affecting billions of lives across the world. Effective management of the pandemic partly depends on communication and people’s knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and practices about it. Moreover, to facilitate the management of a pandemic it is also crit...

UNFPA and the Government of Japan join hands to provide essential health and gender-based violence services to women and girls in Libya Format Tripoli, 6 April 2021 – The Government of Japan has provided UNFPA with USD 1.3 Million to support national efforts for protecting the health and dignity of women and girls in most vulnerable and marginalized communities in Libya. The project launched on April 1st, 2021 is primarily focused on addressing the challenges related to gender-based violence (GBV) and lack of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services aggravated further by COVID-19 pande...

On International Women Day, France announces scaling-up support to UNFPA’s Gender Based Violence response in Libya Format Tunis, 8 March 2021 – As a commitment to continue supporting the people of Libya in a humanitarian context marred by a decade-long instability further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, France provides UNFPA with EUR 285.000, to maintain and expand the Psychosocial Helpline. The ‘1417’ helpline established by UNFPA with the support of France in 2019 has proved instrumental in providing psychosocial support and legal consultations on emotional, domestic and physi...

8 March 2021 New Delhi: Prosus, the global consumer internet group of Naspers, announced today the launch of a new higher education and employment initiative for marginalised women and girls in India in partnership with UN Women. India has one of the largest opportunities in the world to boost GDP by advancing women's equality and participation in the workforce - $770 billion of added GDP by 2025.[1] 67% of all men of working age are employed and only 9% of women are.[2] Barriers to entry for women include poverty, lack of educational opportunities and role models, gender stereotypes and earl...