The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Mandate:
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.
In Kosovo since: July 1999
At a glance:
UNFPA Kosovo office was established as part of an emergency response programme with an overall goal to restore basic and safe conditions for women and their newborn babies.
UNFPA is committed to strengthening the capacity of all Kosovars to protect their reproductive health and those of their partners; to access and receive reproductive health services when needed and to strengthen institutional capacity to collect, analyze and utilize population-based data.
In early 2000, the Ministry of Health mandated UNFPA as the lead agency in reproductive health in Kosovo, and its focus shifted into capacity building activities
The UNFPA works in cooperation with the Government, the civil society sector and the other UN agencies in providing technical support, knowledge gathering and dissemination and advocacy activities, through:
- Technical support to policy making processes and intervention strategies aimed at integrating population and development and reproductive health issues;
- Awareness Raising about the issues of reproductive health and gender-based violence and support the development of policies and interventions aimed at improving the situation, in particular for vulnerable groups and communities;
- Prevention of HIV/AIDS, through increase of awareness of different stakeholders and public advocacy on health promotion of reproductive health issues;
- Development of an effective contraceptive management system in public health centers, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health;
UNFPA is working together with UNICEF and WHO to implement a major joint programme (2007-2010) addressing Millennium Development Goal 4 (Child health) and Goal 5 (maternal health).
fax:++ 381 (0) 38 249 089
bologa@unfpa.org
Address: Payton Place 14, Pristina 10000, Kosovo