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UNFPA in Bangladesh

UNFPA in Bangladesh

UNFPA in Bangladesh

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is the United Nations' sexual and reproductive health agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA has been working in partnership with the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh since 1974, providing technical and advisory services and support. Our main partners are various Government Ministries, the Parliament, United Nations Agencies, academic institutions, and civil society organizations. 

UNFPA’s vision is to make a difference in assisting the Government and people of Bangladesh to achieve the three transformative results, also known as the three zeros, by 2030: zero unmet need for family planning, zero preventable maternal deaths, and zero violence and harmful practices against women and girls, including zero child marriage.

UNFPA Bangladesh is currently implementing its 10th Country Programme (CP10) 2022-2026. It supports the Government to achieve the 2030 Agenda, seeks to address the unfinished agenda of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action through the achievement of the three transformative results of UNFPA, and is aligned to the UNSDCF and the Government’s eighth five-year plan.

The CP10 has four outcome areas:

  1. Ensuring sexual and reproductive health and rights
  2. Empowering adolescents and youth
  3. Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment
  4. Enhancing population data and evidence-based policies

Across our programming, we work across the development and humanitarian continuum, strengthening national and community preparedness and ensuring prioritization of sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence during and following humanitarian crises, especially in areas vulnerable to climate change-induced disasters. UNFPA Bangladesh is also working in Cox’s Bazar, both with the Rohingya population and host communities. Our activities’ objectives, actions, and budget are in the Joint Response Plan on the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis. 

UNFPA is entirely supported by voluntary contributions of donor governments, intergovernmental organizations, the private sector,  foundations, and individuals. We are most grateful to our donors and partners, here in Bangladesh and worldwide, for their continuous support.

Key Results

Bangladesh

Sexual and reproductive health in emergency preparedness plans

Sexual and reproductive health was integrated into emergency preparedness plans

Bangladesh

Cervical cancer screening services

Cervical cancer screening services were offered by at least 25 per cent of public health facilities

Bangladesh

School-based comprehensive sexuality education

A comprehensive sexuality education curricula was operationalized in accordance with international standards

Bangladesh

National plans against harmful practices

A costed national action plan to address harmful practices was developed

Bangladesh

Fistula treatment

477

Fistula repair surgeries provided with the support of UNFPA

Bangladesh

Minimum Initial Services Package

127

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

Bangladesh

Life skills programmes for girls

75,240

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

Bangladesh

Advocacy platforms against harmful social norms

322

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

Bangladesh

Child, early and forced marriage

6,240

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

Bangladesh

Community declarations on harmful practices

322

Communities made public declarations to eliminate harmful practices, with support from UNFPA, including child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

What we do

UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people. Its mission: to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

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Country Representative

Masaki Watabe

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Mr. Masaki Watabe is currently serving as the Representative Ad Interim for UNFPA in Bangladesh.
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