Technical Publications

Adding it Up The Benefits of Investing In Sexual and Reproductive Health Care This new report jointly published by The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, makes the case for increased funding for sexual and reproductive health services-particularly in resource-poor countries-by illustrating the unusually broad societal and individual impact of investments in sexual and reproductive health.

Investing in People National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994-2004 This Global Survey includes responses from 169 countries on the steps they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action, including measures related to population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.

Investing in People -- A Summary National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994 - 2004 A summary of the Global Survey that includes responses from 169 countries on the measures they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action in the fields of population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.

The Glion Call to Action on Family Planning and HIV/AIDS in Women and Children 3-5 May 2004 The linkages between reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention and care must be strengthened in order to achieve internationally agreed development goals. United Nations agencies have initiated a series of consultations to identify ways to build and reinforce these linkages. This Glion Call to Action reflects the consensus of the first consultation in May 2004 which focused on the linkage between family planning and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. The call is set within the context of the objectives and actions agreed at the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

The New York Call to Commitment: Linking HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health This document reflects the consensus of a high-level global consultation on linking HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health in June 2004. Participants included ministers, parliamentarians, ambassadors, leaders of United Nations and other multilateral agencies, donor organization officials, community and nongovernmental organization leaders, young people, and people living with HIV.

Communication for Development Roundtable Report Focus on HIV/AIDS Communication and Evaluation This new publication summarizes discussions from the Eighth Roundtable on Communication for Development Roundtable (Managua, 2001) on strategies to meet the urgent challenge of HIV/AIDS. It highlights communications that address the needs of young people, use of community media, and community mobilization to tackle gender- based violence and discrimination. It also presents communications models and applications from the field, along with lessons learned. A CD-ROM companion features all presentations and related documentation. For related materials, please visit the Communication Initiative website.

Strengthened Partnerships among Local FM and Community Radio Networks and RH Agencies on HIV/AIDS This interactive CD-ROM presents all materials developed for and discussed during two pilot regional training workshops in Africa and Asia in 2003. During the workshops, managers learned how to use entertainment-education methodologies to produce radio serial dramas that are culturally sensitive and research-based. The aim is to use this popular medium more effectively to reduce risky behaviour and prevent HIV/AIDS. The workshops were organized by UNFPA and the Population Media Center (PMC). Send feedback to cohen@unfpa.org Request copies from conte@unfpa.org

Communication/Behavior Change Tools Number 2: Effectively Using Hotlines for BCC in Population and RH Communication/Behavior Change Tools Number 2: Effectively Using Hotlines for BCC in Population and RH This programming brief provides definition, aims of hotlines for behaviour change in population and reproductive health and highlights the key programming elements to consider. It also documents a few UNFPA?s experiences in integrating hotlines in its programmes. Hotlines are innovative behaviour change tools to maximize information, counseling and services that can be applied to a variety of UNFPA thematic initiatives such as Humanitarian Response, elimination of gender violence, reduction of maternal mortality, HIV/ AIDS, Sexuality education, legal advice and literacy.

Communication/Behaviour Change Tools Number 1: Entertainment-Education To make a positive difference on attitudes and behaviour on reproductive health and gender issues, quality entertainment-education programmes involve careful planning, monitoring and evaluation. Especially key to success is the timely use of socio-cultural research and evaluation at various stages of the programme planning sequence. The note defines entertainment-education (EE), addresses its relevance to UNFPA thematic priorities, discusses key programming elements, describes experiences-to-date, lists key lessons learned, and points to a number of useful resources (references and web-based resources).

Strengthen Partnerships among Local FM Radio Networks and Reproductive Health Agencies on HIV/AIDS A Review of the Effectiveness of Local FM Radio in Promoting Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Gender Equity This paper provides an overview of how local FM radio has been used around the world to promote health and development goals. It is intended to inform UNFPA Country Representatives of the potential use of local and community radio to achieve UNFPA objectives worldwide, including HIV prevention. It also contains examples of current UNFPA-funded initiatives.

Reproductive Health for Communities in Crisis UNFPA Emergency Response Wars or natural disasters deprive people of life-saving reproductive health information and services. This advocacy booklet details UNFPA's work with global partners to respond to the reproductive health needs of refugees and internally displaced persons in crisis situations around the world: providing services to address complications of pregnancy and delivery, the transmission of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, adolescent health, violence against women, and access to condoms and other contraceptives.

Strategic Options for HIV/AIDS Advocacy in Africa Report of the Joint UNFPA-UNAIDS HIV/AIDS Advocacy Mission to Africa This report documents advocacy efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, identifies major issues that still need to be tackled, and describes what partnerships at various levels can do to improve African responses to HIV/AIDS. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), sponsored the fact-finding mission to six African countries on which this report is based and provided support for printing and distribution, as a contribution to scaling up advocacy against AIDS on the African continent.

Partnering: A New Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health Technical Paper Number 3 "Partnering" shows how a global consensus is emerging on how to scale up successful programmes that involve men without diverting scarce resources from women?s health. In fact, men are more and more taking ownership of mobilization and advocacy for the emergence of a more gender equitable young man.

Expert Consultation on Operationalizing Advocacy in Support of Population and Development Programmes Lessons Learned - Technical Report Number 44 This Technical Report reviews the experiences and lessons learned of technical experts using advocacy for population and development after the ICPD at country level. It aims at learning strategies that work, with a view to providing practical guidance for country programmes. It touches upon four key areas: policy advocacy, media advocacy, organizing partnerships, and capacity building in advocacy. The Report discusses advocacy priorities for UNFPA and strategies that need to be utilized.

International Seminar on ICPD Advocacy in the Global Information and Knowledge Management Age Technical Report Number 47 Technical Report on the use of ICTs in selected inter country, regional and country experiences. It also looks at innovative uses to raise awareness, use for advocacy and as well as future strategies for population donors, lessons learned and recommendations.

Developing Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Strategies for Population Programmes Technical Paper Number 1 A UNFPA Technical Report that introduces the concept of IEC and strategies and describes a step by-step methodology for the development of effective research-based behaviour change communication strategies for programmes working in the areas of RH, population and development and gender equity.

State of World Population

State of World Population 2004 The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and The Global Effort to End Poverty This year's report, The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty, examines the progress countries have made and the obstacles they have encountered at the halfway point in implementing the ICPD plan.

General Information

24 Tips for Culturally Sensitive Programming Guide to Working from Within This booklet, a companion to the publication Working from Within, colorfully presents 24 tips, one per page, for culturally sensitive programming, based on research carried out by UNFPA.

At The Crossroads: Accelerating Youth Access to HIV/AIDS Interventions This publication highlights the ways in which young people remain at the centre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Noting that many young people are at high risk of HIV infection, the publication documents how they lack access to critical youth-friendly information, skills and services for the prevention, treatment and care of HIV and AIDS.

Position Statement on Condoms and HIV Prevention This brief document on Condoms and HIV prevention issued by UNFPA, UNAIDS, and WHO states that condom use is a critical element in a comprehensive, effective and sustainable approach to HIV prevention and treatment.

Women: Meeting the Challenges of HIV/AIDS This brochure was developed in collaboration with UNIFEM, UNAIDS and UNFPA to highlight critical issues impacting on women and girls in the context of HIV/AIDS.

Future Generations Ready for The World UNFPA’s Contribution to the Goals of the World Summit for Children This publication documents UNFPA's contribution to the goals of the World Summit for Children and its commitment to young people. This commitment, anchored in the ICPD Programme of Action, includes support in four major areas: girls' education, adolescent reproductive and sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and maternal mortality. Examples of UNFPA-funded projects in each of these areas are presented, as are strategies for moving forward.

Periodicals

DISPATCHES: Issue Number 60 News from the United Nations Population Fund, January-April 2004 IN THIS ISSUE: • A Decade After Cairo, World Celebrates Landmark Agreement • 2003: Record Number of Donors Support UNFPA • US Administration Urged to Uphold Congress Decision to Resume UNFPA Funding • Arab Parliamentarians Urge Governments to Honour Cairo Commitments • UNFPA Launches New Safe Motherhood Effort in Viet Nam • New UNFPA-Supported Youth Centre Opens in Rwanda • UNFPA Protects Reproductive Health of Displaced Sudanese • Responding to the Earthquake Tragedy in Iran

DISPATCHES: Issue Number 61 News from the United Nations Population Fund, May-June 2004 IN THIS ISSUE: • Latin America Reaffirms Cairo Population Consensus on its Tenth Anniversary • Agencies Team up to Save Women's Lives in Latin America and the Caribbean • Cambodia's Young Campers Discuss Reproductive Health Issues • Uganda Gears Up to Fight Fistula • Emergency UNFPA Supplies Airlifted to Haiti • Belize launches new initiative to protect youth against HIV/AIDS • World's Youngest Nation to Use Latest Technology for its National Census • New System Helps Countries Manage their Reproductive Health Commodities

DISPATCHES: Issue Number 62 News from the United Nations Population Fund, July-August 2004 IN THIS ISSUE: • Young People to Advise UNFPA on Their Rights and Needs • Youth Activists Gear Up for the Bangkok AIDS Conference • Reproductive Health and Gender Equality Key to Breaking Cycle of Poverty, According to African Ministers • Cambodia Conducts Population Survey with UNFPA Support • UNFPA Spearheads Campaign to End Fistula in Sudan • Swedish Funds Support HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Tea Plantations of Bangladesh • New UNFPA Support to Better Health Care in Africa

DISPATCHES: Issue Number 63 News from the United Nations Population Fund, September-October 2004 IN THIS ISSUE: • Report Examines Triumphs and Setbacks Since Cairo Population Consensus • British Support for UNFPA to Increase Over the Next Four Years • Latin America Reaffirms its Support for Cairo Consensus • Timor-Leste Announces Preliminary Census Results • Kazakhstan Takes Over Family Planning • Developing Contries Intensify Efforts to End Fistula • Youth Issues Get National Attention in Maldives

Advocacy Booklet Series

Preventing HIV Infection, Promoting Reproductive Health UNFPA Response 2002 Previously known as AIDS Update, this is the 11th annual publication to provide information about action taken by UNFPA to prevent HIV infection. HIV/AIDS threatens to destroy a whole generation of leaders, workers, parents and youth, and to create a generation of orphans in the worst-affected countries. In many countries, the infection is creeping through the population,preparing to strike full-force. Prevention is about striking first. Reproductive health information, services and supplies enable people to avoid HIV infection and to protect themselves, their partners and their unborn children from this deadly virus.

Reproductive Health Essentials--Securing the Supply Global Strategy for Reproductive Health Commodity Security Previously known as AIDS Update, this is the 11th annual publication to provide information about action taken by UNFPA to prevent HIV infection. HIV/AIDS threatens to destroy a whole generation of leaders, workers, parents and youth, and to create a generation of orphans in the worst-affected countries. In many countries, the infection is creeping through the population, preparing to strike full-force. Prevention is about striking first. Reproductive health information, services and supplies enable people to avoid HIV infection and to protect themselves, their partners and their unborn children from this deadly virus.

Reproductive Health Commodity Security: Partnerships for Change - A Global Call to Action This document is a response to a call from the international community for UNFPA to take the lead in ensuring reproductive health commodity security (RHCS). It outlines the scope of the issue, identifies required actions at both the global and country levels to ensure RHCS, and proposes specific roles for various partners, from developing country governments to NGOs and the private sector. It also projects contraceptive costs, shortfalls and consequences.

Reproductive Health Commodity Security: Partnerships for Change - The UNFPA Strategy This paper outlines the strategy that UNFPA has developed for its contribution to RHCS, based on the approach outlined in a companion paper, Reproductive Health Commodity Security: Partnerships for Change. A Global Call to Action.

A Time Between: Health, Sexuality and Reproductive Rights of Young People Millions of teenagers lack the information and services to help them prevent unwanted pregnancy, abortion and sexually transmitted disease. This booklet looks at issues related to adolescent sexual and reproductive health, including the need to empower girls to delay pregnancy until physically and emotionally mature, to teach boys to act responsibly, to encourage adults to listen to young people, and to provide young people with information and services that will allow them to protect themselves.

Partners for Change: Enlisting men in HIV/AIDS Prevention This publication provides an introduction to the subject of men and HIV/AIDS in relation to the work of UNFPA, carried out in partnership with UN agencies, governments and civil society organizations at all levels. As action intensifies, it will be important to recognize the positive and caring behaviour of many men, who do practise safe sex, treat women as equals, behave in non-violent ways and share in family care-giving. It will also be important to encourage the potential of all men to adopt more equitable, respectful and caring attitudes.

Violence Against Girls and Women: A Public Health Priority While considerable progress has been achieved in establishing gender-based violence as a human rights concern, much less headway has been made in addressing violence against girls and women as a public health issue. Changes in reproductive health policy-making will be critical to recognizing and addressing the consequences of violence for women's health. This booklet outlines the important issue involved and looks to the policy reform process as a way forward.

Working to Empower Women: UNFPA's Experience in Implementing Beijing Platform for Action This report highlights what UNFPA is doing to support governments and civil society in each of the 12 "critical areas" of the Platform for Action of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women: empowering women and ensuring their human rights; women and poverty; education and training; women and health; violence against women; women and armed conflict; women and the economy; women in power and decision-making; institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women; human rights of women; women and the media; women and the environment; and the girl-child.

Advocating Change: Population, Empowerment and Development This booklet outlines the highlights of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and discusses its implications especially to effect major changes in the lives of women.

Coming Up Short: Struggling to Implement the Cairo Programme of Action The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, agreed that international donors should contribute one third of the $17 billion needed annually by the year 2000 for population and reproductive health programmes. UNFPA projects a continued financial shortfall would likely lead to over 100 million additional unwanted pregnancies during 1995-2000, resulting in hundreds of thousands of maternal deaths, millions of infant deaths and tens of millions of abortions.

The Right to Choose: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health This booklet, based on The State of World Population 1997, summarizes the international agreements that define sexual and reproductive rights, presents evidence on progress and problems in attaining those rights, and examines the effects of denying them to millions of women and men.

A New Role for Men: Partners for Women's Empowerment This booklet calls for men to assume their responsibilities as fathers and play a decisive role as supportive parents and husbands. Broader men's involvement in fatherhood is a key to empowering women and to improving the bond between fathers and children.

Food for the Future: Women, Population and Food Security Unless women are placed at the centre of efforts to increase food production and are given support for their reproductive rights and reproductive health, vital opportunities will be missed to meet the world's present and future food needs.

Hopes and Realities: Closing the Gap between Women's Aspirations and Their Reproductive Experiences In most countries today, people want fewer children than they did in the past. Over the last 30 years, the average family size dropped from six children to about three. This booklet outlines the results of the Alan Guttmacher Institute's Hopes and Realities report, with data on reproductive health from 42 countries.

Population and Sustainable Development: Five Years After Rio Five years after the 1992 Earth Summit, the United Nations hosted a Rio Plus Five conference in New York. For the occasion of the meeting, UNFPA published this booklet which provides an overview of the relationship between population and the environment. The link reasons that promoting sustainable development rests on the recognition of women's rights.

Population and the 21st Century: UNFPA and Agenda 21 The inextricable link between population and the environment was emphasized at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. This booklet, outlines UNFPA's mandate, including population-related citations from Agenda 21, the plan for action signed at the Earth Summit.

UNFPA at Work Five Country Snapshots The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with a staff of just 900, is one of the world's smaller international development agencies. But it has a broad mandate: to raise awareness of population throughout the world and, especially, to assist developing countries in solving their population problems.

Other Reports and Documents

Securing the Supplies People Rely On This brochure was launched at the 2004 International Parliamentarians' Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action held in Strasbourg, France on 18-19 October 2004. It outlines the current RH commodity shortfall situation caused by rising demand and falling financial support and gives details of the Global Strategy on Reproductive Health Commodity Security (RHCS), running from advocacy, to resource mobilization, technical cooperation, coordination, national capacity building and improved sustainability.

Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention This publication contains country-specific information reported by donors on the type, quantity and the total cost of contraceptives they provided to reproductive health programmes in developing countries in 2002. The report is especially useful to illustrate commodity shortfalls and changes in funding by donor and country.

Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention The Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention 2001 report was prepared by analyzing information from the database on donor support for RH commodities maintained by the Commodity Management Unit (CMU) of the Technical Support Division (TSD). This publication contains country-specific information reported by donors on the type, quantity and the total cost of contraceptives they provided to RH programmes in developing countries in 2001. This report, the latest in a series of reports, is being used for contraceptive supply planning, advocacy and resource mobilization. The report is especially useful to illustrate commodity shortfalls and changes in funding by donor and country.

Global Strategy for Reproductive Health Commodity Security An informative Powerpoint presentation.

Donor Support for Contraceptives and Logistics This report on Donor Support for Contraceptives and Logistics Management is prepared from a database maintained by the UNFPA Global Initiative on Reproductive Health Commodity Management. The database contains country-specific information reported by the donors on the type, the quantity, and the total cost of contraceptives they provided to developing country reproductive health programme during 1999. Information on brands, manufacturers, and the unit cost is provided by a limited number of donors and agencies. The purpose of this annual report is to facilitate coordination and advocacy among the key partners in terms of addressing unmet contraceptive needs and strengthening supply management so that the contraceptives are accessible at affordable prices to both women and men in developing countries. The report may also be useful in the broad planning of contraceptive support to countries.

Annual Report

UNFPA at Work 2001 Annual Report Working with both women and men, we continued the effort during 2001 to eliminate violence against women and the discrimination that limits the potential of individuals and nations. Our role in human development, mandated by the United Nations and globally endorsed at the ICPD, is to improve the reproductive health of women, men and young people in the poorest countries?and in so doing, to bring about a more equitable world.

Declarations on Cairo @ 10

Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference Report and Plan of Action on Population and Poverty At the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference held in Bangkok in December 2002, ministers and senior officials from 35 countries adopted a Plan of Action calling for stepped-up efforts and increased resources to provide reproductive health care, combat AIDS and protect adolescents against unwanted or too-early pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. All but one of the participating governments, members of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), fully reaffirmed their commitment to the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo. [see press release]

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