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8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices

State of World Population Report

The State of World Population report is produced by a panel of external advisers, researchers and writers, who work alongside UNFPA technical staff and editors, bringing the insights of leading independent experts together on issues related to the UNFPA mandate. This report explores how people — the general public, policymakers, academics and others — understand current population trends, and how those views can impact sexual and reproductive health and rights.

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UNFPA Botswana 2022 Annual Report

Annual Report

This booklet highlights the achievements made by the country office in 2022 towards the realization of the transformative results, under the leadership of the Government of Botswana in collaboration with technical and financial partners and civil society organizations.

 

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What Works in HIV Prevention? Promising Practices from East and Southern Africa

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The elation that greeted the discovery of vaccines against COVID-19 in 2020 recalls the hope unleashed in the early 2000s when antiretrovirals (ARVs) became available worldwide at affordable prices. Neither of these two notable scientific breakthroughs is a silver bullet against the two viruses (HIV and SARS-CoV-2) but both help prevent death and disease.

ARV treatment was a game changer. By 2015, the global mass cascading of ART allowed the United Nations to commit to ambitious targets.

There is no time to lose if the region is to meet the 2025 targets for HIV prevention. With this goal, UNFPA has collected examples of successful interventions for HIV prevention in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and Uganda. Each section ends with a selection of evidence-based priority actions from the UNFPA East and Southern Africa Strategy to End HIV.

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Investing in three transformative results: Realizing powerful returns

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This research publication shares the economic returns in investing in transformative results committed by UNFPA: ending unmet need for family planning; ending preventable maternal deaths; and ending harmful practices.

Overall, the research shows that investing in UNFPA transformative results brings powerful returns by 2050. The research publication also highlights the specific cost benefit ratios in investing in these results.

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We Matter. We Belong. We Decide. UNFPA Disability Inclusion Strategy 2022 - 2025

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UNFPA works to ensure persons with disabilities are leading efforts to make the world more inclusive and are championing equal rights and a life free from violence. The UNFPA Disability Inclusion Strategy puts persons with disabilities at the very centre of everything UNFPA does. Disability inclusion means making the work of UNFPA stronger by ensuring sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all. Focusing on the rights of persons with disabilities supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially the principle of “leaving no one behind” (LNOB) and “reaching the furthest behind” (RFB), this strategy aligns with the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) as well as the UNFPA Strategic Plan, 2022–2025. Disability inclusion matters because it contributes to all UNFPA transformative results. 

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Capitalizing on Botswana’s Young People

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This report synthesizes the key findings of an evidence brief prepared by the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) at the University of Cape Towns School of Economics in 2020. It was commissioned by the UNFPA, with the support and collaboration of the Government of Botswana, and focuses on Botswana’s youth, aged 15 to 35. The aim is to provide evidence to support policy actions that will maximize the advantages of having a youthful population (median age is 24) and contribute to the well-being of all citizens. Consequently, this brief examines four important youth-related areas in terms of capitalizing on the demographic dividend: fertility, education, health, and the labour market.

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Preparing for an Ageing Society in Botswana

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This report synthesizes the key findings of an evidence brief prepared by the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) at the University of Cape Town’s School of Economics in 2020. It was commissioned by the UNFPA, with the support and collaboration of the Government of Botswana, to explore the process of population ageing expected to occur in Botswana, drawing from national population projections and earlier work on Botswana’s demographic dividend. Using updated estimates of the economic life cycle in Botswana, it presents the first estimates of the potential second demographic dividend for Botswana and examines five key issues related to population ageing and their implications for policymakers: labour market attachment among older cohorts; financial provision for old age; household welfare; the challenge of healthy ageing; and concerns around fiscal sustainability.

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Botswana 2022 Voluntary National Review Report

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Given the importance the Government attaches to the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, the decision to conduct a second VNR was unanimously made by the National Steering Committee (NSC) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during its June 2021 session. The report is a collaborative effort of different agencies involved in the implementation of the SDGs and the government. While the Ministry of Finance (MoF) was responsible for the overall preparation of the report, it was supported by several line ministries, the United Nations Country Team (UNCT), as well as the Resident Coordinator's Office (RCO). 

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Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story

Motherhood in Childhood: The Untold Story

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This report examines trends in adolescent childbearing using techniques that focus on the most vulnerable girls, such as child mothers, girls with repeat adolescent childbearing, and births that occur in dangerously quick succession. In using these new measures, it uncovers the untold story of more than 50 years of adolescent childbearing in the world’s low- and middle-income countries.

The new measures reveal that the issue is not just about whether or not a girl gives birth in adolescence but if, when and how many births she experiences. That is, adolescent childbearing comprises three fundamental and interconnected fertility processes: (i) the timing of a first adolescent birth, (ii) the spacing between adolescent births and (iii) the quantity or total number of births to each adolescent mother.

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Accelerating Progress Towards Contraception For All

Accelerating Progress Towards Contraception For All

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This Policy Brief stems from key findings and recommendations of a strategic assessment on unintended pregnancy, contraception and unsafe abortion in Botswana. The Strategic Assessment was completed in 2020 as the first of three stages in the WHO-sponsored Strategic Approach to Strengthening Reproductive Health Policies and Programmes. The main aim of the Strategic Assessment was to identify and prioritise needs and potential follow-up actions related to critical sexual and reproductive health issues, specifically: the reduction of unintended and unwanted pregnancies; the unmet need for contraception; morbidity and mortality related to the unsafe termination of pregnancy; and the integration of HIV and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.

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