EDITO

Yet, another year full of prospects and challenges for UNFPA, which works to ensure that sexual and reproductive rights for all are guaranteed especially in times of COVID19 and contributes to ensure that no one is left behind in development programs. A particularly important year, as we are entering our 10th cycle of cooperation with Tunisia through our country program 2021 - 2025 and which opens up new perspectives of cooperation taking into account the context, opportunities and potential risks.

It is within this framework that UNFPA Tunisia Country Office will work to contribute to the achievement of its 3 transformative results by 2030: Zero preventable maternal deaths, Zero Gender-based violence and Zero unmet needs in Family Planning. To do this, UNFPA will place particular emphasis in its new CPD on 4 major results:

• •Strengthening national capacities to ensure equitable access to integrated quality sexual and reproductive health services for women, adolescents and young people, including in humanitarian and emergency situations;
• •Strengthening national capacities to implement programs that enable young people and adolescents to make informed decisions about their bodies and their lives and to participate in sustainable development, peace and security, including in the humanitarian context;
• •Improving national capacities to defend, prevent and respond to gender-based violence, including in the humanitarian context;
• •Improving national demographic data systems to map and address inequalities in order to advance the achievement of the SDGs and ICPD action plan commitments and strengthen responses to humanitarian crises.

This year, UNFPA is focusing its 2021 State World of Population on the protection of the right to autonomy and bodily integrity that we are launching in April 2021, believing that when women and Girls are free to make the most basic choices about their bodies, they not only gain autonomy, but also benefit from better conditions in terms of health and education, income and security. UNFPA in Tunisia will advocate for this cause and will be supporting programs for bodily autonomy.

During the first 3 months of the year 2021, and to materialize its new program and vision, UNFPA Tunisia office consolidated its achievements and forged new strategic partnerships, representing government organizations, civil society, academicians, media, young people…. It has also been successful in mobilizing more financial resources and will continue to do so to achieve its goals.

The first quarter of 2021 has proved to be promising and innovative in terms of programs, and we have worked to serve the most vulnerable people in particular migrants, adolescents and young people, women victims of violence, people with disabilities, to support national strategies, in particular the 2021-2030 sexual and reproductive health national plan and the 2021-2030 multisectoral national strategy for the elderly, and to support national efforts to improve the data collection system relating to Sexual and Reproductive Health.

We invite you to discover all our news with this 20th edition of Newsletter from our office in Tunisia.