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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Humanitarian Day 2023
Conflict and natural disasters are compounding the challenges and hardship faced by millions of people around the world, driving record levels of displacement and humanitarian need. UNFPA continues to deliver on our unwavering promise to leave no one behind, providing a lifeline of support for women and girls, who pay a steep price during humanitarian crises.
5 Best practices in acceleration access to Sexual and Reproductive Health in Cameroon
UNFPA’s interventions in Cameroon in the course of its 8th Cooperation Program (2022-2026) are targeted toward achieving the Three Transformative Results, which are: Ending unmet need for Family Planning (FP), Ending preventable Maternal Death and Ending Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and harmful practices. In this light, UNFPA Cameroon has tested five successful strategies that need to be scaled up in order to accelerate its progress towards the SDG targets.
State of the World Population Report 2023
This State of World Population report, produced by a group of external advisers, researchers and writers, working alongside UNFPA technical staff and editors, explores how broadening our understanding of population can lead to new solutions that build demographic resilience and help shape a more equitable and prosperous future.
Advancing gender equality is an often- overlooked solution to many of these concerns. In ageing, low-fertility countries with labour productivity concerns, achieving gender parity in the workforce is considered the most effective way to improve productivity and income growth. In high-fertility countries, empowerment through education and family planning is known to yield enormous dividends in the form of economic growth and human capital development.
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on the International Day of the Midwife 2023
Around the globe, in countries that invest in a capable midwifery workforce, more mothers and babies survive and thrive. Midwives provide essential information on sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, and help people navigate often-sensitive issues in a variety of contexts, including in humanitarian settings. Midwives are often the only healthcare workers serving people in hard-to-reach places.
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Health Day 2023
Every two minutes, a woman dies giving birth. As the clock counts down another year, 287,000 more women will meet the same tragic fate.
Most of these deaths are preventable. They are not inevitable. They happen because health-care systems routinely fail women and girls.
Women die giving birth because, for too many, health services are unavailable, inaccessible, unaffordable or offer poor quality care.
Statement by Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director, on International Women’s Day 2023
Women and girls, in all their diversities, have the fundamental right to live free from violence and to have agency over their bodies and lives, both offline and in virtual spaces.
Joint Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem and UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
Changing gender and social norms that encourage FGM is critical. Men and boys are powerful allies in the effort. Increasingly they are challenging power dynamics within their families and communities and supporting women and girls as agents of change.
8th Country Cooperation Programme Cameroon - UNFPA (2022 - 2026)
The Government of Cameroon and UNFPA concluded in 2021 the 8th Cooperation Program for the period 2022-2026. This very ambitious program is backed by the Cameroon-United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2022-2026) for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (2015-2030). It is aligned with the UNFPA Strategic Plan (2022-2025) in order to contribute to the achievement of the 3 transformative results which are: Zero unmet need for family planning, zero preventable maternal deaths, zero gender-based violence and harmful cultural practices.
Situation Report N°002_Floods in the Far North
As of November 17th, approximately 500 000 people/ 65 000 households are affected by the flooding situation of Mayo-Danay and Logone-and-Chari Divisions in the Far-North of Cameroon. Accessible and quality response to sexual and reproductive health including family planning, safe deliveries and emergency obstetric care as well as GBV protection services remain a priority as few partners are responding to the mentioned needs.
Flooding Situation Report_Far North and North Regions_October 2022
Highlights
● 479,393 people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in the floods situation of the Far North in Cameroon
○ 108,918 women and girls of childbearing age in need of reproductive health services
○ 85,900 women and girls in need of gender-based violence protection service
○ 158,199 young people exposed to the humanitarian crisis and lacking access to family planning
● 2,150,000 USD required by UNFPA to provide lifesaving reproductive health services and protection from GBV