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About us

About us

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the UN international development agency that addresses issues of reproductive health and rights and guides its work through the Program of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. During the ICPD, 179 UN member states recognized that gender equality and addressing needs in education and health, including reproductive health, are prerequisites for achieving long term sustainable development.

The UNPFA agenda in line with the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 aims to achieve three strategic results: i) zero unmet needs for family planning; ii) zero maternal deaths and iii) zero violence and harmful practices against women and girls. The achievement and fulfillment of these rights is a fundamental requirement for UNFPA's mandate to be enhanced and inclusive and sustainable development achieved.

 

In this regard, UNFPA supports:

  1. Reproductive health care for women and young people in more than 150 countries - covering more than 80% of the world's population;
  2. The health of pregnant women, especially the 1 million who face complications and risk of life, each month;
  3. 20 million women per year may have access to sufficient modern contraceptives,
  4. Training of thousands of health professionals to help ensure that at least 90% of all births are supervised and/or cared by qualified professionals;
  5. Prevention of gender-based violence, affecting 1 in 3 women;
  6. Abandonment of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls annually;
  7. Prevention of adolescent pregnancy, whose complications are the main cause of death of girls aged 15 to 19 years;
  8. Efforts to end child marriage, which can affect some 70 million girls in the next 5 years;
  9. Delivery of safe childbirth kits, dignity kits, and other life-saving materials to survivors of conflicts and natural disasters;
  10. Census, data collection, and analysis, essential tools for development planning.

UNFPA ANGOLA

The 2015-2019 Country Programme is part of the United Nations framework for development support, developed in partnership with the Government of Angola, with the dynamic participation of partners and civil society.

UNFPA in Angola aims to contribute to the development and implementation by governments of policies, strategies, and programmes that promote economic and social development of the beneficiary population.

The Country Programme contributes with interventions to reduce maternal deaths, increase access to health services, especially by young people and the most vulnerable, and lobby for increased state budget allocation for the social and economic sectors.

Below are UNFPA Angola strategic areas of programme intervention:

Key Results

Angola

Maternal death notification

At least 25 per cent of the estimated maternal deaths were notified

Angola

Reproductive rights, laws and policies

Strategies were in place to align laws, policies and regulations on reproductive rights

Angola

Multi-sector platforms

Platforms were established for dialogue on reproductive rights, fully engaging civil society, including faith-based and state actors

Angola

Minimum Initial Services Package

240

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

Angola

Life skills programmes for girls

2,031

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

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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Country Representative in Angola

Country Representative in Angola

Rinko Kinoshita

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Rinko Kinoshita began her duties as UNFPA Representative in Angola on 07 August 2024. Rinko has more than 20 years' experience in international development, with focus on maternal and child health, child and adolescent rights, planning, monitoring and evaluation and operational research. In recent years, she has held different management positions in Central and South America and Africa with UNICEF and UNFPA. Prior to her arrival in Angola, she served as UNFPA Representative in Bolivia for 4 years.
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