Training and education

Skills and information are needed by many groups confronting crisis: health workers unprepared for a flood of refugees, armed forces exposed to HIV, young people traumatized by violence or catastrophic events who turn to high-risk behaviours.

UNFPA supports training to build capacity, counselling and sexuality education to help people cope with heightened risk.

• Some 90 relief workers and health professionals from more than 30 countries received training as part of a UNFPA-supported project for reproductive health services in emergency situations.



• A training project in Liberia graduated 212 students in demography and 61 in statistics. Surveys and a new census are providing the Government with the first major demographic and health data since a decade-long civil war caused massive population displacements.



• More than 4,500 young people learned about reproductive health and condoms through a peer education project that concluded in 2001 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a complex post-war, multi-ethnic and multireligious context.