
United Nations Population Fund – UNFPA
Overview
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Founded Date January 1, 1969
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Posted Jobs 4
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Company Description
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, is a UN agency aimed at developing reproductive and maternal health worldwide. Its job includes developing national healthcare strategies and protocols, increasing access to birth control, and leading campaigns against child marriage, gender-based violence, obstetric fistula, and female genital mutilation.
The UNFPA supports programs in more than 144 countries across four geographic regions: Arab States and Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, the Caribbean and Africa. Around three-quarters of the staff work in the field. It is a founding member of the United Nations Development Group, a collection of UN agencies and programmes focused on fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals.