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UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is the UN agency that aims to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled through achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health, promoting reproductive rights, reducing maternal mortality, and accelerating progress on the ICPD agenda.

UNFPA began operations in Botswana in 1971 and develops Country Programme Document every five years with Government and Non-Governmental Organizations.

UNFPA Botswana is currently on the 6th country programme which focuses of the following:

High quality integrated sexual & reproductive health services

  • Support the improvement of  policy standards for delivery of integrated, gender sensitive and non-discriminatory sexual and reproductive health services at national scale
  • Support the improvement of policy guidelines and service standards for provision of quality family planning services, including demand for and supply of modern contraceptives
  • Support strengthening policy guidelines and protocols for development and implementation of evidence based and comprehensive maternal health services

Empowerment of adolescents and young people

  • Support the improvement of policy and programming for adolescents and young people’s rights to access SRH information and services
  • Support the improvement of guidelines and standards for the design and implementation of community and school based comprehensive sexuality education programmes that promote human rights and gender equality

Generation of strategic information  

  • Support operationalisation of the Demographic Dividend policy recommendations
  • Support implementation and delivery of a timely, high quality 2021 Population and Housing censes in line with international standards, and the wide dissemination and use of census products.
  • Support national statistic systems towards integrated data ecosystems that facilitate development tracking of the SDG 2030 agenda in the country.
  • Support development and adoption of financing strategies towards achievement of UNFPA  transformative results

Key Results

Bangladesh

Sexual and reproductive health in emergency preparedness plans

Sexual and reproductive health was integrated into emergency preparedness plans

Bangladesh

Cervical cancer screening services

Cervical cancer screening services were offered by at least 25 per cent of public health facilities

Bangladesh

School-based comprehensive sexuality education

A comprehensive sexuality education curricula was operationalized in accordance with international standards

Bangladesh

National plans against harmful practices

A costed national action plan to address harmful practices was developed

Bangladesh

Fistula treatment

477

Fistula repair surgeries provided with the support of UNFPA

Bangladesh

Minimum Initial Services Package

127

Health service providers and managers were trained on the minimum initial service package

Bangladesh

Life skills programmes for girls

75240

Marginalized girls were reached with health, social and economic asset-building programmes

Bangladesh

Advocacy platforms against harmful social norms

322

Communities developed advocacy platforms to eliminate discriminatory gender and sociocultural norms which affect women and girls

Bangladesh

Child, early and forced marriage

6240

Girls received, with support from UNFPA, prevention, protection services, and/or care related to child, early, and forced marriage

Bangladesh

Community declarations on harmful practices

322

Communities made public declarations to eliminate harmful practices, with support from UNFPA, including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

What we do

UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people. Its mission: to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

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Head of Office

Head of Office

Tlangelani Shilubane-Pietersen

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Ms. Tlangelani Shilubane-Pietersen is the Head of Office of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in the Republic of Botswana. With a Masters in Community Development and Social Policy Making, Ms. Shilubane-Pietersen brings over 18 years experience from prior engagement in the civil society sector, the South African Government as well as in both the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) East and Southern Africa regional office and the South Africa Country Office. Key contributions in Ms. Shilubane-Pietersen’s background have been directed towards strengthening development efforts for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This has led her to be at the forefront of policy, programme and development efforts within the strategic areas of population dynamics, sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR), adolescents and youth, ending gender based violence and promoting gender equality as well as ending new HIV infections for the achievement of sustainable development. As the Head of Office Ms. Shilubane-Pietersen’s responsibilities include effective management of UNFPA programmes in Botswana, ensuring accountability through monitoring results achieved as well strengthening UNFPA’s support to the United Nations Development System.
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