Central and Eastern Europe
Reproductive health
Population and development strategies
Advocacy
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Africa
Arab States
Asia and the Pacific
Latin America and the Caribbean
Interregional Programmes
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Population and Development StrategiesBuilding and strengthening
national capacity in data collection and analysis remained an important aspect of UNFPA
support in the region. In Moldova, UNFPA, together with UNICEF and the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID), funded the country’s first reproductive
health survey. In Armenia, the Fund supported a knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP)
survey, which, inter alia, found that the abortion rate was twice as high as
officially reported.
All countries in the region are currently preparing for the 2000 round of population and
housing censuses. For most this will be the first population census since gaining
independence in the early 1990s. Many of these countries lack the capacity and the
financial resources required for preparing, collecting, analysing and disseminating
population and housing census data. Recognizing this, UNFPA, together with the Economic
Commission for Europe (ECE), convened a donors meeting on 26 September 1997 in Geneva, to
facilitate the mobilization of financial resources from the international community. UNFPA
has agreed to coordinate follow-up to this meeting, including facilitating the exchange of
information among donor countries and agencies and recipient countries on the requirements
for training, equipment and supplies, and providing technical and financial assistance.
Meanwhile, UNFPA and UNDP are supporting a pilot census in Armenia. This will provide
valuable inputs for the implementation of the 1999 population and housing census. UNFPA is
also funding a regional census training project, executed by the ECE, to train staff of
national statistical offices for the forthcoming round of censuses.
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