UNFPA with support from KOICA, is implementing a project in Dedza and Mchinji, which seeks to increase adolescent girls’ access to integrated adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health information and services, including family planning, gender based violence prevention and response. The project is also supporting girls to go back to school with an education package that includes school fees, uniforms and sta...

Half. That is the alarmingly high proportion of pregnancies that girls and women do not deliberately choose. The neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy is the subject of UNFPA’s flagship 2022 State of World Population report, released today. Such pregnancies represent a global failure to uphold basic human rights.

During emergencies, women and girls face heightened risk of gender based violence. In Malawi, the Spotlight Initiative is piloting ‘safe spaces’ in camps where people displaced by tropical cyclone Gombe, are residing. So far, the initiative is bearing fruit. Host communities and displaced people are showing increased levels of awareness about gender based violence.