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Unlocking the Future: Advancing Universal Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights within Universal Health Coverage in East and Southern Africa
In the past 20 years, progress has been made towards universal sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the East and Southern Africa (ESA) region. However, millions still lack universal access to comprehensive SRHR in the ESA region, which includes 23 diverse countries with over 670 million people, of whom nearly one-third are between 10 to 24 years of age.
UNFPA Botswana 2023 Annual Report
This snapshot encapsulates our collective efforts with partners and the Government of Botswana to shaping a brighter, more inclusive, and equitable future for all, as we continue to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of everyone in Botswana.
Empowering Millions: How the Safeguard Young People Programme (2013-2023) Catalysed a Decade of Change for Young People in East and Southern Africa
Imagine an East and Southern Africa where young people thrive, where all adolescents and young people aged 10 to 24 are healthy, productive and empowered. This is the vision of the Safeguard Young People programme, which works with youth to equip them with comprehensive knowledge and skills relating to their sexuality, rights and health-seeking behaviours. Its goal is to ensure that young people are free from sexually transmitted infections including HIV, unintended pregnancies, child marriages and gender-based violence. At the heart of the programme is the belief that young people need to be supported holistically in their own diverse and often complex environments so they can make informed decisions and realize their full potential.
8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices
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
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.
What Works in HIV Prevention? Promising Practices from East and Southern Africa
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.
Investing in three transformative results: Realizing powerful returns
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.
We Matter. We Belong. We Decide. UNFPA Disability Inclusion Strategy 2022 - 2025
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.
Capitalizing on Botswana’s Young People
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.
Preparing for an Ageing Society in Botswana
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.