Sweden

Sweden

Donor Rankings, 2014-2018

1st Core Contributions
5th Non Core Contributions
2nd Overall Contributions
The Swedish Government continues to display global leadership by pursuing a feminist foreign policy that places the rights of women and girls at the forefront of its objectives. Sweden identifies gender equality as a major priority and as a cross-cutting element of its development cooperation. It is both a goal and means of sustainable development. In addition, Sweden has set six long-term objectives for its development cooperation, including combatting violence against women and girls and expanding sexual and reproductive health and rights. 
 
Sweden gives strong priority to core funding of the multilateral system and UNFPA in particular. Unearmarked funding enables UNFPA to plan long-term, respond flexibly to emerging priorities, and sustainably support human rights-based programmes that improve the lives of women and young people in developing countries. Core funding also enables access to comprehensive sexuality education, contraceptives and maternal health care, prevention of unsafe abortions and support to UNFPA's strategic plan.
 
Sweden is also the main contributor to UNFPA’s Maternal Health Thematic Fund, which trains midwives, performs fistula repair surgeries and delivers other maternal health support to countries with high maternal death rates. Additional areas of collaboration between Sweden and UNFPA include HIV prevention; programmes to end gender-based violence in Africa; sexual and reproductive health and rights programmes in Africa and Latin America; strategies to end gender-based violence in the Syrian crisis; support for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) programme of action; and efforts to abandon of female genital mutilation. 
 

 

Ann Linde, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Peter Eriksson, Minister for International Development Cooperation
The feminist Government of Sweden is a strong political and financial supporter of UNFPA’s lifesaving work to strengthen all individuals’ full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. The right to decide over one’s body, sexuality and reproduction is essential to women’s economic empowerment and political participation.Empowered women are central to the eradication of poverty and building of peaceful societies.
Ann Linde, Minister for Foreign Affairs

News & Updates

Journalist and teacher Giorgi Liparishvili plays with his son Tevdore. © UNFPA Georgia/Guram Kapanadze
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As COVID-19 pandemic increases childcare burden, calls for Georgian men to step up
TBILISI, Georgia – As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, an unprecedented number of people are participating in forms of self-isolation, lockdown or quarantine. By some estimates, the number of people...
31 March 2020 read story
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With Sweden, strengthening midwifery care worldwide
UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem traveled to Stockholm to meet with Swedish officials to build upon the commitments made at the recent Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 and bolster UNFPA’s longstanding partnership with...
16 December 2019 read story
South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have seen particularly widespread sexual and gender-based violence, both during and in the aftermath of conflict. © UNFPA DRC
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Leaders call on world to end scourge of gender violence
JUBA/KINSHASA/NEW YORK – Betty* is a survivor. The South Sudanese teenager has risen above a horrific act of violence and reclaimed her life. But her heroic act of recovery should never have been necessary, leaders at...
26 September 2019 read story

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Key Results 2018

  • Sexual and Reproductive Health
    Maternal deaths averted
    6,174
    Unsafe abortions prevented
    744,484
    Fistula repair surgeries supported
    1,655
    Adolescents were reached with integrated sexual and reproductive health services
    2,016,000
  • Family planning
    Unintended pregnancies prevented
    2,527,778
    Couples protected for one year from unwanted pregnancies
    5,728,800
    HIV infections prevented by provision of female and male condoms
    11,760
  • Gender based violence and harmful practices
    Girls saved from female genital mutilation
    3,192
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Key results are for illustrative purposes only, and reflect what a donor has contributed to through funding to UNFPA since 2014. Key results presented here may not reflect the figures provided by government donors.

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