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Family Planning: National handbook for service providers
The National handbook on family planning provides technical support to service providers at primary health care clinics and hospitals, offering them the most updated and effective...
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Addressing Unintended Pregnancy in the Arab Region Policy Brief 2019
Unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion are serious public health issues in the Arab region that often go ignored, jeopardizing the health of women and families and placing a burd...
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Clone of COVID-19: UNFPA Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Humanitarian Operations in Arab Region
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to redefine the realities of nations throughout the world, creating new and unprecedented challenges. The pandemic and its long-term ramifications h...
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Innovative Solutions to Address Needs of People on the Move for Maternal Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Gender-based Violence Services in the Arab States Region
Mixed migration in the Arab States region is a complex multidimensional phenomenon as the region hosts a combined 34% of the world’s population of the forcibly displaced1 who...
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The National Strategy to Combat Violence against Women and Girls 2018-2030
Violence against women is a global phenomenon. It takes various forms from physical, to psychological, and sexual violence and harmful practices that threaten women's health, l...
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Impact of the Oil Crisis and COVID-19 on Iraq’s Fragility
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are especially severe for people in fragile countries where health systems, government structures and social safety nets are weak. The im...
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FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMMING: a regional paper based on four case studies in the Arab states
Family planning is central to gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment, and it is a key factor in reducing poverty. The Programme of Action of the International Confe...
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Navigating Comprehensive Sexuality Education in the Arab Region
The objective of this report is to explore the landscape of (comprehensive) sexuality education in the Arab region. In doing so, UNFPA’s Arab States Regional Office (ASRO) ai...
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Estimating the Cost of Child Marriage in the Arab Region
Child marriage is a violation of human rights and a form of gender-based violence (GBV) that results in numerous adverse outcomes for a child’s development. In the past 25 ye...
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