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European Union steps up its support to UNFPA with €1.5 million to safeguard women and girls’ health and rights

calendar_today26 May 2022

Reproductive health kits are being delivered to a maternity hospital in Dnipo, Ukraine. © UNFPA Ukraine/Mark Kachuro
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News

Population census enters the digital age in Kyrgyzstan

calendar_today20 May 2022

Kyrgyzstan recently completed its third population and housing census since independence in 1991. Some 24,000 enumerators, like the one above (left) in Suusamyr Valley, Chuy region, were recruited to survey the population of almost 7 million. @UNFPA Kyrgyzstan/Kanat Kubatbekov
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Kyrgyzstan conducts national population and housing census

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At the end of March, Kyrgyzstan began its third population and housing census since independence in 1991. Some 24,000 enumerators, like Ermek Kydyev (middle), were recruited to survey the population of almost 7 million. 29 March 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

This is the first census to be conducted electronically in the Central Asian country. Baktybek Kainazarov (right), a population and development analyst at UNFPA Kyrgyzstan, accompanied Ermek Kaptagaev (left), an enumerator, as he interviewed people. 28 March 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

Azamat Baialinov, Head of the UNFPA Kyrgyzstan Country Office, meets Bekmurat Aitiev, Head of Jalal-Abad city Statistics Department, in south-west Kyrgyzstan, to discuss the census. 26 March 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

An enumerator interviews a man on a horse in Kara-Kol, eastern Kyrgyzstan. The census will provide data on the social and economic situation, education level of citizens, marriage and family structures and the ethnolinguistic composition of the population. 26 March 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

Enumerators collected census data using a mobile app developed by the World Bank. “Previous censuses were paper-based,” said Dinara Isakova, the leading specialist at the Bishkek Statistics Administration of the National Statistical Committee. “This year, the census is totally automated." 3 April 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

During the 10-day census period, each enumerator had to interview 400 people, like this family in Chui province, in the most northerly region of Kyrgyzstan. 29 March 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

The census was originally planned to take place in 2020, but it was postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic. Enumerators had to wait two years before they could survey citizens, like this man in Bokonbaev village, on the southern shore of lake Issyk. 29 March 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

UNFPA supported the National Statistical Committee with methodological support, training, monitoring and in development of the census questionnaire. 29 March 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

People living in remote areas will be surveyed at the end of April. The roads are blocked by snow for much of the month making it impossible for the enumerators to collect data. 29 March 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

The data gathered from the census will inform policymaking and infrastructure planning. It will enable Kyrgyzstan to become more demographically resilient and make progress towards achieving its development goals. 29 March 2022. © Askat Chynaly for UNFPA

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Ukraine crisis rooms, created for survivors of domestic violence, now house survivors of war

calendar_today09 May 2022

Iryna and her two children are sheltering in a crisis room. © UNFPA Ukraine
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Video

Ukraine War: Supporting gender-based violence survivors

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Ukraine War: Supporting gender-based violence survivors

Ukraine War: Supporting gender-based violence survivors

From a gender-based violence (GBV) shelter in Lviv, our Senior Emergency Coordinator Mustafa Elkanzi describes how UNFPA supports women and girls during the war in Ukraine.

Learn more about our work on the ground.

Publication date

Apr 2022

Author

UNFPA EECA

Resources

Ukraine Emergency Situation Report #8 – 29 April 2022

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Updates

From Ukraine to Afghanistan, Iceland increases its support to humanitarian efforts to safeguard women and girls’ rights

calendar_today03 May 2022

In 2022, Iceland increases its support to UNFPA to safeguard women and girls’ rights. In April, Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir met with UNFPA’s Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Kanem. © UNFPA
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News

War in Ukraine shocks global food supply, putting lives at risk

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A young mother and her baby are weighed before being examined for malnutrition at UNFPA-supported Marib General hospital in Yemen, a country that relies heavily on food imports. Skyrocketing food prices have increased the number of people in need of food assistance from 16.2 million in 2021 to 19 million people in 2022. © UN/Giles Clarke
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Publication date

Apr 2022

Author

UNFPA EECA

Resources

Ukraine Emergency Situation Report #7 – 20 April 2022

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Press release

Women and girls in Ukraine and neighboring countries require urgent support

calendar_today19 April 2022

Snapshot: UNFPA’s response in Ukraine and the region

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