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25 September 2019
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Release of a unique publication on SDG 17 that promotes partnership to transform Africa and the world

Release of a unique publication on SDG 17 that promotes partnership to transform Africa and the world

An exclusive publication on the seventh Sustainable Development Goal, entitled “Goal 17 - Partnership: UNFPA's approach for transforming Africa and the world" will be published on 26 September in New... Read more

24 September 2019
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Registration opens for the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25

Registration opens for the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25

Registration for the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 opened, an eagerly anticipated next step towards the high-level conference. The Summit will be a watershed moment for women and girls everywhere. Taking... Read more

12 September 2019
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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.

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

6 September 2019
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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

13 August 2019
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25 Hours of DAKAR: Declaration of adolescents and young people of west and central Africa

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

9 August 2019
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Vicky the poetess

​​​​​​​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

3 August 2019
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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

29 July 2019
Press Release

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

18 July 2019
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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

12 July 2019
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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

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