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Programme Priorities |
| Reproductive health, including family planning and sexual health |
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Reproductive health, including family planning and sexual health Adolescent reproductive health Reducing maternal mortality Emergency assistance in refugee situations HIV/AIDS Population and development strategies Advocacy Women's empowerment and gender issues Strengthening programme effectiveness Decentralization National capacity-building Monitoring and evaluation Training Contraceptive requirements and logistics management needs Partnership with NGOs and civil society ICPD+5
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Reproductive health remained the primary focus of UNFPA's programme during 1997, accounting for over 60 per cent of total programme allocations. Key activities in this area during the year included, inter alia, further operationalizing sexual and reproductive health; refining approaches to adolescent reproductive health; reducing maternal mortality; assessing contraceptive requirements and logistics management needs in recipient countries; providing emergency assistance in refugee situations; and addressing HIV/AIDS. Providing policy guidance and technical support in these and related areas was a key role of UNFPA headquarters during the year. UNFPA country programmes remained the main vehicle for further operationalizing reproductive and sexual health, reflecting a strong reproductive health orientation. The programming process benefited from a series of regional consultations, which were held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25-30 January; New Delhi, India, 22-26 September; Lima, Peru, 3-7 November; and Rabat, Morocco, 24-28 November. They brought together a wide range of experts from the governmental and non-governmental sectors and bilateral agencies, as well as from partner United Nations organizations such as WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank. The consultations were the second step in the process to move beyond the promotion of the concept of reproductive health to the development of programmes to meet the reproductive health needs of individuals and couples. The first step had been a global expert consultation held in the spring of 1996, which culminated in the publication of a technical report in 1997. The recommendations of the regional consultations will be used, along with those from the global consultation, as inputs to a guidance note that will serve as a blueprint for developing a set of specific tools for operationalizing reproductive health.
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| Foreword | Introduction | UNFPA in 1997 | Programme Priorities | |