UNFPA,
the United Nations Population Fund, extends assistance to developing
countries, countries with economies in transition and other countries
at their request to help them address reproductive health and population
issues, and raises awareness of these issues in all countries, as
it has since its inception.
UNFPA's three
main areas of work are: to help ensure universal access to reproductive
health, including family planning and sexual health, to all couples
and individuals on or before the year 2015; to support population
and development strategies that enable capacity-building in population
programming; to promote awareness of population and development
issues and to advocate for the mobilization of the resources and
political will necessary to accomplish its areas of work.
UNFPA is guided
by, and promotes, the principles of the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development (1994). In
particular, UNFPA affirms its commitment to reproductive rights,
gender equality and male responsibility, and to the autonomy and
empowerment of women everywhere. UNFPA believes that safeguarding
and promoting these rights, and promoting the well-being of children,
especially girl children, are development goals in themselves. All
couples and individuals have the right to decide freely and responsibly
the number and spacing of their children as well as the right to
the information and means to do so.
UNFPA is convinced
that meeting these goals will contribute to improving the quality
of life and to the universally accepted aim of stabilizing world
population. We also believe that these goals are an integral part
of all efforts to achieve sustained and sustainable social and economic
development that meets human needs, ensures well-being and protects
the natural resources on which all life depends.
UNFPA recognizes
that all human rights, including the right to development, are universal,
indivisible, interdependent and interrelated, as expressed in the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population
and Development, the Vienna Declaration and the Programme of Action
adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, the Convention
on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the
Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development,
the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women
and in other internationally agreed instruments.
UNFPA, as
the lead United Nations organization for the follow-up and implementation
of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population
and Development, is fully committed to working in partnership with
governments, all parts of the United Nations system, development
banks, bilateral aid agencies, non-governmental organizations and
civil society. UNFPA strongly supports the United Nations Resident
Coordinator system and the implementation of all relevant United
Nations decisions.
UNFPA will
assist in the mobilization of resources from both developed and
developing countries, following the commitments made by all countries
in the Programme of Action to ensure that the goals of the International
Conference on Population and Development are met.
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