UNFPA: Supporting Gender Equality in Azerbaijan
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What is UNFPA doing?
UNFPA has been assisting Azerbaijan since 1994. Its early projects concentrated on meeting emergency reproductive health and population needs.
Since then, UNFPA has been supporting a wide variety of activities in Azerbaijan to strengthen national capacity in issues relating to population, and reproductive health with the gender perspective present throughout.
UNFPA's current programme for Azerbaijan includes
• Strengthening the managerial and technical capacity of RH service providers
• Improving the quality of RH services and commodities by strengthening the health logistics management information system
• Increasing people's knowledge and skills to adopt responsible and healthy sexual and reproductive behavior.
• Strengthening the technical capacity of policy and decision makers, NGOs, civil society and media to formulate implement and support legislation for reproductive health and rights
• Increasing the availability of accurate, gender-sensitive information on population, development and the environment
• Creating an enabling environment and strengthening national capacity to give population issues a prominent role in development and environment policies.
For details of individual UNFPA projects in Azerbaijan, click here .
UNFPA's past assistance over the last 10 years has included:
• Providing medical equipment, contraceptives and training for a network of reproductive health centers.
• Support in developing a reproductive health law.
• Enhancing health services for internally displaced people.
• Ensuring nationwide coverage of the family life education programme.
• Support for supported national institutions in analyzing and disseminating the results of the first post-independence census.
• Training state officials on the link between population and development and demographic techniques.
• Collecting demographic and socio economic data.
• Helping to establish a legal framework to address gender equalities.
• Assistance in formulating and starting the implementation of a national reproductive health strategy.
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