Helping Azerbaijan to Collect and Assess Data for Development

What is UNFPA doing to help ?

UNFPA has been assisting Azerbaijan since 1994. Its early projects concentrated on meeting emergency reproductive health and population needs.

Since then, UNFPA has supported a wide variety of activities in Azerbaijan to strengthen national capacity in issues relating to population and development and reproductive health:

UNFPA has been supporting national institutions in analyzing and disseminating the results of the first post-independence census in 1999.

• The fund also provided training to staff from the “Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population and the State Statistics Committee on the links between population and development and on specific demographic techniques.
• UNFPA helped to open several libraries and training centers.
• It also supported the National Academy of Sciences in carrying out research on the socio-cultural aspects of gender.

In its current programme for Azerbaijan, UNFPA plans to increase the availability of accurate, gender-sensitive information on population, development and the environment. In order to achieve this, UNFPA will help through technical assistance, data collection, specialized surveys and research studies in which the importance of disaggregated data will be emphasized. It will help to establish a user-friendly national population databank. UNFPA also plans to support measures aimed at aligning Azerbaijan's registration and health statistics systems with the standards of the European Community and the World Health Organization. UNFPA will also help strengthen the capacities of selected national research and development institutions to provide demographic and population data.

UNFPA also aims to strengthening the national capacity to give population dimensions a prominent role in development and environment policies. To do this, UNFPA will develop an advocacy action plan and support the establishment of a national coordination council on population and development. The fund will support training and the development of a social mobilization strategy with NGOs, civil society organizations and the media. UNFPA will also help to upgrade institutional capacity to analyze research for population and social policy planning.

Projects in Azerbaijan:

Teaching Azerbaijan's Adolescents about Safe and Responsible Sexual and Reproductive Behavior

Helping Azerbaijan to Integrate Population and Gender factors into its plans and programmes

Expanding Reproductive Health Services to help save Women's Lives

Helping Azerbaijan to gather Accurate, Gender-sensitive data on Population and Development

Helping Azerbaijan to create a Law on Reproductive Health and Rights

Training Azerbaijan's Doctors and Midwives

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