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SWEDD Mauritania: 20 women beneficiaries of safe spaces, winners of the competition on the best projects of Income Generating Activities, funded and trained.
As part of the SWEDD project activities, which aim to improve women and girls living conditions and to reduce gender inequalities in Mauritania, a training workshop and an award ceremony will be held... Read more
Launch of the program "POPULATION D'AFRIQUE" on TV5 Monde
A new television programme dedicated to population issues in Africa, entitled “Population d’Afrique”, will go on air as from Saturday 7 September 2019, and throughout the year on TV5MONDE Africa and... Read more
25 Hours of DAKAR: Declaration of adolescents and young people of west and central Africa
To amplify the voice of African youth on their way to the Nairobi Summit on CIPD25, members of the African Youth and Adolescents Network on Population and Development of West and Central (AfriYAN... Read more
The Story of Kadiatu
The Story of Kadiatu Oh Kadiatu, my friend, She was the brightest at our level and she was as innocent as the heaven's but that did not stop Papa Abu at age 57 to ask for her hand in marriage as... Read more
UNFPA Executive Director visits Senegal and The Gambia
The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Dr. Natalia Kanem will visit Senegal and The Gambia from 5 to 9 August, 2019. This first official visit to both countries is part... Read more
Promoting civil registration and vital statistics to leave no one behind in Africa
An inception meeting on sharing technical standards and implementation strategies of a project on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) was held in Dakar, Senegal from 24 to 26 July 2019.... Read more
Embedding monitoring and evaluation in country programmes
Two workshops on Programme Monitoring and Evaluation of Country Programmes held in Dakar, Senegal from 8 to 17 July 2019. Organized back-to-back for Francophone and Anglophone participants, the... Read more
Niger, SWEDD: round table for resource mobilization to increase public and private investment
The financial resource mobilization round table of the Women's Empowerment and Demographic Dividend in the Sahel (SWEDD) project, under the theme, “Investing in Women's Empowerment and Human... Read more
Joint mission to Mali by UN Regional Directors Group and regional partners’ wraps up
The joint mission of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group for West and Central Africa, headed by Mr. Mabingué Ngom, wrapped up a four-day visit to Mali, on 12 July 2019. The mission... Read more
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Population Day
Her life. Her choice. Our future. Women have a right to make their own decisions about whether, when and how often to become pregnant. That right was reaffirmed in 1994 in Cairo at the landmark... Read more