United Nations Population Fund

UNFPA Democratic Republic of the Congo

Still in a fragile phase of post-conflict reconstruction and peace-building, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a least developed country with very high maternal and newborn mortality and HIV prevalence as well as a legacy of sexual violence. With families averaging 5 or 6 children, the population is very young and growing at more than 3 per cent per year. Working in the country since 1978, UNFPA aims to improve access to quality reproductive health care services – including HIV interventions -- and to integrate population and gender issues in national policies and programmes.

Key Results Download PDF

Key results of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the in 2020

Fistula treatment

4996 Fistula repair surgeries provided with the support of UNFPA

Minimum Initial Services Package

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

Life skills programmes for girls

300300 Marginalized girls were reached with health, social and economic asset-building programmes

Advocacy platforms against harmful social norms

8 Communities developed advocacy platforms to eliminate discriminatory gender and sociocultural norms which affect women and girls

Child, early and forced marriage

550000 Girls received, with support from UNFPA, prevention, protection services, and/or care related to child, early, and forced marriage

Essential services for gender-based violence survivors

23938 Women and girls who were subjected to violence have accessed the essential services package

Fistula treatment

4996 Fistula repair surgeries provided with the support of UNFPA

Minimum Initial Services Package

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

Life skills programmes for girls

300300 Marginalized girls were reached with health, social and economic asset-building programmes

Advocacy platforms against harmful social norms

8 Communities developed advocacy platforms to eliminate discriminatory gender and sociocultural norms which affect women and girls

Child, early and forced marriage

550000 Girls received, with support from UNFPA, prevention, protection services, and/or care related to child, early, and forced marriage

Essential services for gender-based violence survivors

23938 Women and girls who were subjected to violence have accessed the essential services package

Emergencies Key results

  • People Reached
    Total people reached with all types of GBV services
    67,448
    UNFPA-assisted safe deliveries
    10,720
    Affected population reached with Family Planning services
    8,831
    Number of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49) reached with SRH services
    76,683
    Number of adolescents aged 10-14 reached with SRH services
    1,959
    Number of adolescents aged 15-19 reached with SRH services
    17,628
    Number of young people aged 20-24 reached with SRH services
    14,298
    Number of older persons aged 65+ reached with SRH services
    4,897
    Number of people reached with SRH/GBV information and awareness activities
    2,083,357
    Number of people reached with personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies
    5,242
    Number of people reached with Humanitarian Cash & Voucher Assistance
    10,487
  • Services delivered
    Number of mobile clinics
    20
    Functional health facilities supported by UNFPA that provide Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC)
    195
    Number of safe spaces
    30
    Dignity Kits distributed
    17,207
    Number of adolescent and youth-friendly spaces supported by UNFPA
    18
    Number of health facilities that provide specialized GBV services (including Clinical Management of Rape), supported by UNFPA
    129
  • Capacity building
    Youth facilitators and volunteers trained on sexual and reproductive health
    166
    Personnel trained on Minimum Initial Package (MISP)
    1,879
    Personnel trained on clinical management of rape
    771

Programme Activities

All Resources
  • All resources
  • Core
  • Non - core
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Evidence-based policymaking
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Evidence-based policymaking
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Analysis on population dynamics
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Analysis on population dynamics
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Organizational effectiveness
  • Analysis on population dynamics
  • Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
  • Adolescents and youth
  • Gender equality
  • Analysis on population dynamics

Congo, the Democratic Republic of the 2020 Programme Activities data

Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
Increased availability and use of integrated sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning, maternal health and HIV) that are gender-responsive and meet human rights standards for quality of care and equity in access
Total Spending:
$17,531,087
Implemented by:
UNFPA $15,078,570 (86%)
NGO $1,970,321 (11%)
GOV $482,197 (3%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (32)
Non-core Resources (68)
Integrated sexual and reproductive health services
Increased national capacity to deliver integrated sexual and reproductive health services
Total Spending:
$14472438
Implemented by:
UNFPA $12336730 (85%)
NGO $1876292 (13%)
GOV $259416 (2%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (38%)
Non-core Resources (62%)
Accountability for sexual and reproductive health
Increased national capacity to deliver consistent with budget results and accountability for sexual and reproductive health
Total Spending:
$149261
Implemented by:
UNFPA $-1167 (-1%)
NGO $75825 (51%)
GOV $74603 (50%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (-2%)
Non-core Resources (102%)
Health workforce capacity
Increased national capacity to deliver health workforce capacity
Total Spending:
$192057
Implemented by:
UNFPA $135628 (71%)
GOV $56429 (29%)
Funded by:
Non-core Resources (100%)
Sexual and reproductive health Policies
Increased national capacity to deliver integrated sexual and reproductive health policies
Total Spending:
$19174
Implemented by:
UNFPA $18527 (97%)
GOV $648 (3%)
Funded by:
Non-core Resources (100%)
Supply chain management
Increased national capacity to deliver supply chain management
Total Spending:
$2698157
Implemented by:
UNFPA $2588852 (96%)
NGO $18204 (1%)
GOV $91101 (3%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (1%)
Non-core Resources (99%)
Adolescents and youth
Increased priority on adolescents, especially on very young adolescent girls, in national development policies and programmes, particularly increased availability of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health
Total Spending:
$885,201
Implemented by:
UNFPA $177,717 (20%)
NGO $116,298 (13%)
GOV $591,186 (67%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (24)
Non-core Resources (76)
Adolescents and youth skills and capabilities
Increased national capacity to conduct evidence-based advocacy for incorporating adolescents and youth skills and capabilites
Total Spending:
$681945
Implemented by:
UNFPA $30816 (5%)
NGO $59943 (9%)
GOV $591186 (87%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (29%)
Non-core Resources (71%)
Youth leadership and participation
Increased national capacity to design and implement community and school based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programmes that promote human rights and gender equality
Total Spending:
$186955
Implemented by:
UNFPA $130600 (70%)
NGO $56355 (30%)
Funded by:
Non-core Resources (100%)
Youth policies
Population policy and administrative management
Total Spending:
$16302
Implemented by:
UNFPA $16302 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)
Gender equality
Advanced gender equality, women’s and girls’ empowerment, and reproductive rights, including for the most vulnerable and marginalized women, adolescents and youth
Total Spending:
$6,949,342
Implemented by:
UNFPA $2,933,080 (42%)
NGO $3,509,048 (50%)
GOV $507,213 (7%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (1)
Non-core Resources (99)
Accountability for gender equality
Strengthened international and national protection systems for advancing reproductive rights, promoting gender equality and non-discrimination and addressing gender-based violence
Total Spending:
$365606
Implemented by:
UNFPA $315835 (86%)
NGO $24939 (7%)
GOV $24833 (7%)
Funded by:
Non-core Resources (100%)
Prevention and addressing of GBV
Ending GBV
Total Spending:
$6425112
Implemented by:
UNFPA $2458622 (38%)
NGO $3484109 (54%)
GOV $482381 (8%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (1%)
Non-core Resources (99%)
Social Norms
Support for institutions on gender equality and women's empowerment
Total Spending:
$158624
Implemented by:
UNFPA $158624 (100%)
Funded by:
Non-core Resources (100%)
Analysis on population dynamics
Strengthened national policies and international development agendas through integration of evidence-based analysis on population dynamics and their links to sustainable development, sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, HIV and gender equality
Total Spending:
$3,042,450
Implemented by:
UNFPA $3,012,450 (99%)
GOV $30,000 (1%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (10)
Non-core Resources (90)
National population data system
Strengthened national capacity for production and dissemination of quality disaggregated data on population and development issues that allows for mapping of demographic
Total Spending:
$2940895
Implemented by:
UNFPA $2910895 (99%)
GOV $30000 (1%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (7%)
Non-core Resources (93%)
Demographic intelligence
Strengthened national capacity for production and dissemination of quality disaggregated data on population and development issues that allows for mapping of demographic disparities
Total Spending:
$101555
Implemented by:
UNFPA $101555 (100%)
Funded by:
Core Resources (100%)

Programme Documentation

CPD DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of the CONGO [2020-2024] (DP/FPA/CPD/COD/5)
Cycle: 2020-2024
CPE Dem Rep Congo [2019] (DP/FPA/2018/11)
Cycle: 2019
CPE Dem Rep Congo [2018] (DP/FPA/2017/13)
Cycle: 2018
CPD Dem Rep Congo [2013-2017] (DP/FPA/CPD/COD/4)
Cycle: 2013-2017
CPD Dem Rep Congo [2008-2012] (DP/FPA/CPD/COD/3)
Cycle: 2008-2012

UNDAF Dem Rep Congo [2013-2017]

Cycle: 2013-2017

CPAP Dem Rep Congo [2013-2017]

Cycle: 2013-2017

Audit of the UNFPA Country Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Issue date: 7 March 2019
English
Technical notes and sources
  • The results featured here are only a selection of key results in line with strategic plan 2014-17 indicators. The selection does not reflect the full picture of all results achieved during the strategic plan cycle by UNFPA programme countries.
  • The source of data for most country level indicators is the UNFPA country annual reports for 2014-2017, unless stated otherwise
  • Results featured are cumulative - i.e., achieved between the 2014 and 2017 timeframe, and reflect the net situation, true as of the year selected
  • Majority of the results are captured from 127 UNFPA programme countries
  • Indicators that are marked ‘not achieved’ could imply any of the following conditions:
    • The country may have achieved the result without the support of UNFPA
    • The country has not targeted the given indicator during the 2014-2017 period
    • UNFPA is supporting this area of work, but the result has not yet been achieved

Notes for key results

  • Maternal deaths averted: Results reflected for 46 UNFPA Supplies programme countries
  • Unintended pregnancies averted: Results reflected for 46 UNFPA Supplies programme countries
  • Unsafe abortions averted: Results reflected for 46 UNFPA Supplies programme countries
  • Number of countries that developed midwifery workforce policies based on international standards: Baseline data not available
  • Number of fistula repair surgeries supported: Baseline data not available
  • Number of countries that implemented at least 8 out of the UNFPA 10-step strategic-approach to comprehensive condom programming: Results achieved in 2014-2016 only
  • Number of countries that have capacity to implement the Minimum Initial Service Package at the onset of a crisis: UNFPA reflected non-cumulative figures for this indicator; the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) is a series of crucial actions required to respond to reproductive health needs at the onset of every humanitarian crisis. View here for more information on MISP
  • Percentage of countries affected by humanitarian crises that have functioning inter-agency gender-based violence coordination body as a result of UNFPA guidance and leadership: Baseline data not available
  • Number of countries that established comprehensive plan to report on UNFPA-supported Sustainable Development Goal indicators: Results achieved in 2017 only; baseline data not available
  • Number of countries that established online national population data platforms that are publicly accessible by users: : Results achieved in 2017 only; baseline data not available
  • Number of countries in which the capacity of national statistical authorities was developed to analyse and use disaggregated data on adolescent and youth: Baseline data not available; UNFPA reflected non-cumulative figures for this indicator
  • Number of countries that generated and used sub-national estimates of population, health and social data: Baseline data not available

The designations employed and the presentation of material on the map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNFPA concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The dotted line represents approximately the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. The final status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been agreed upon by the parties.

We use cookies and other identifiers to help improve your online experience. By using our website you agree to this. To learn more, including how to change your settings, see our cookies policy.

X