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Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
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Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
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Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

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What we do

Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
Population trends
Urbanization

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

Go back

What we do

Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
Population trends
Urbanization

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

Go back

What we do

Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
Population trends
Urbanization

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

Go back

What we do

Ending unmet need for family planning

Adolescent pregnancy
Comprehensive sexuality education
Family planning
Sexual and reproductive health

Ending maternal mortality

Maternal health
Midwifery
Obstetric fistula

Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Child marriage
Female genital mutilation
Gender-based violence
Son preference

Responding to population matters

Ageing
Census
Civil registration and vital statistics
Climate change
Demographic dividend
Population trends
Urbanization

Ensuring rights and choices for all

Engaging men and boys
Gender equality
HIV and AIDS
Human rights
LGBTQIA+
Menstrual health
Persons with disabilities
People of African descent
Youth participation and leadership

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

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Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

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Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

Go back

Emergencies

Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Lebanon
Myanmar
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

Go back

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Afghanistan
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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Haiti
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Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Yemen

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Gender-based violence
Son preference

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Country Implementation Profile: Sri Lanka

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2014

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Country Implementation Profile: Sri Lanka

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