Overview of UNFPA Mandates and Programme

Joint UNHCR/UNFPA Workshop Collaboration on Demographic Data Collection in Emergencies/IDP

Situations7 February 2007 Geneva

Benoit Kalasa, UNFPA Representative Madagascar

UNFPA Mission StatementUNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is an

international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programmes to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.

UNFPA – because everyone counts.

Mandates of UNFPA

• Reproductive Health

• Population and Development

• Gender

Reproductive Health

• Safer Motherhood• Family Planning• Prevention and

Management of STI• Prevention of HIV• Youth/Adolescent

needs• Sexual/Gender Based

Violence

Promoting Gender Equality

• Women’s empowerment

• Involving men

• Attention to girls and adolescents

• Gender based violence, harmful practices

Population and Development

• Assist governments to integrate population issues into their planning and policy making for poverty reduction

• Support national capacity development in data collection and analysis (demographic researches, surveys and censuses)

• Policy dialogue

Population and Development

• Census: basis for any other data collection - sampling frame

• Detailed mapping of population distribution at the lowest level (GIS)

• Building multi-sectoral database• Population projections: basis for any

interventions (benchmarks!)

Population and Development

• Traditional working relationships with a wide range of data producers: civil registration; sectors; village books

• High level of desegregation and better service delivery (targeting and HRBA to programming)

Population and Development

Minimum basic data systems re-established in post-conflict countries

• Support for assessments of population data systems

• Rebuilding of the minimum population data systems required for short-term planning

Population and Development

• Resource mobilization for rebuilding of data collection, analysis and dissemination systems; and

• Providing relevant demographic data and analysis as part of a coordinated United Nations effort

UNFPA Programming Framework

• A member of UN Country Team, UNDG ExCom member

• Harmonized programming approach – CCA, UNDAF, Country Programme, CPAP, AWP

• Partner with governments, civil society, regional institutions, NGOs, UN partners

Common tools for planning country Programmes have been developed

Preparation and Approval

Monitoring and Evaluation

ANALYSIS: Common Country Assessment (CCA)

BUSINESS PLAN: UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF)

COMMON RESULTS: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

NATIONAL PRIORITIES/

MDGs

Implementation

COMMON TOOLS

Milestones of programmingP

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CCA UNDAF CPDs X Final UNDAF Eval.

Strategies and PlanningMonitoring and Analysis

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Results MatrixJSM JSM

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Sept Yr4 Dec Yr4 Jan Yr 1Mar Yr5

Challenges of Humanitarian interventions

• Capturing humanitarian needs during the key programming stages

• Priority setting: keeping humanitarian interventions on the development agenda

• Securing resources

• Coordination: Government; UN; other Development partners

Challenges of P&D inputs

• Anticipating availability of information• Flexibility and or harmonization of existing

methodologies/tools• Institutional challenges: leadership role of

national institutions• Policy dialogue: Seating at the table from

beginning

Thank you.

Presentation by Benoit Kalasa

UNFPA Representative, Madagascar

kalasa@unfpa.org