Sexual and Reproductive Health Framework - UNFPA

(b) Investing in capacity development andleadership skills of young people for makingthem advocates of their own rights anddevelopment issues;(c) Promoting peer educators as multifaceted agents,segmented by age and sex, for communicatinggender sensitive life-skills based SRH education,linking peers with services and allying withyoung people’s networks and coalitions;(d) Tapping into the dynamism of youth movementsand their communication networks for advocacyand action on issues of concern, such as HIV/AIDS/STIs, sexual and gender-based violence andage at marriage.c. Indicators proposed for outcome 5126. The following are among the indicators in theStrategic Plan for assessing outcome 5:• Proportion of countries that offer an essentialservice package for young people includingmarginalized and excluded groups• Proportion of countries with secondary schoolcurricula including gender sensitive, life skillsbased SRH/HIV preventionAdditional indicators to consider are as follows:(a) Adolescent fertility rate.C. Coordination with Populationand Development and Gender, HumanRights and Culture Frameworks127. There are many synergies among UNFPA effortson SRH and its other two main fields – populationand development and gender. Programme workshould be multisectoral and multidisciplinary,with results in one programme area influencing orcontributing to the achievement of results in theothers. For example, promoting gender equalityenables women to have more decision-making powerand, thus, better access to SRH information andservices and better protection from reproductiveill health. Understanding the socio-cultural factorswill better facilitate services that allow women andgirls to exercise their right to reproductive health.The availability of data on migration patterns allowsfor better planning to meet SRH needs. Preventingunwanted pregnancy, STIs and HIV in younggirls increases their educational opportunities,their subsequent participation in developmentand, ultimately, gender equity and equality. Theavailability of reproductive health commoditiesempowers women to protect themselves against, forexample, HIV infection.1. population and development128. Population and development provides thefundamental rationale for the Fund’s work in thefield of SRH, population and gender. It demonstratesthe mutually reinforcing links between these threeareas, and provides the evidence for why investingin meeting the ICPD goals is a prerequisite for theachievement of the MDGs and the ultimate goalof poverty eradication. Areas in which SRH andpopulation and development intersect include thefollowing:(a) Support for the collection of data, especiallyaccording to poverty levels, to enable countriesto monitor and report on their progress towardsthe achievement of national development plans,the ICPD goals, the MDGs and other indicators ofSRH;(b) Partnerships for the development of population,health and gender databases and integratedmanagement information systems to inform thedevelopment, implementation, monitoring andevaluation of national policies and programmesin these areas;(c) Rapid assessments in humanitarian crises toprovide the necessary data to meet the SRHneeds of refugees and internally displacedpersons;(d) In post-conflict countries and those intransition, where the capacity for demographicsurveys and analysis is seriously and structurallydisrupted, individual and institutionalcapacity development in population studiesand demographic surveys to inform short- tomedium-term plans;(e) Demographic and sociocultural research andanalysis, particularly studies demonstrating theimpact or informing the design of SRH policies,strategies or programmes;(f) Research and analysis to provide evidencelinking the achievement of the ICPD goals tothe achievement of the MDGs and linking thecontribution of the Fund’s work in SRH to theeradication of poverty.MAKING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH A REALITY FOR ALL31