UNFPA in Maldives
UNFPA:
United Nations Populations Fund - Maldives
This is UNFPA. No woman should die in childbirth. Hundreds of thousands do every year. No infant should die for lack of assistance to its mother. Millions do. No woman should have undesired pregnancies. Children should be born healthy into families and a world ready to nurture them. This is what UNFPA is about.
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is the world’s largest source of population assistance, with programmes in over 140 countries. UNFPA supports the right of individuals and couples to decide freely the number and spacing of their children, and to have the information and means to do so.
UNFPA helps women, men and young people plan their families and avoid undesired pregnancies; undergo pregnancy and childbirth safety; avoid sexually transmitted infections – including HIV/AIDS; combat discrimination and violence against women and formulate population policies and strategies in support of sustainable development.
UNFPA’s role in the Maldives expanded dramatically in the early 1980s with the launching of national programmes on family planning and population. During this period, priority was given to develop national capacity in the area of expertise and institutional structure. To assist this process, a series of projects was implemented throughout the 1980s while expanding the involvement of relevant agencies and professions.
In the first decades of UNFPA’s engagement in the Maldives, the projects were formulated by the UNFPA Field Office in Sri Lanka and implemented under the supervision of UNDP Country Office in Male’. A separate field office for UNFPA Maldives was established in 1994 and the first UNFPA Country Programme introduced in the same year.
Page last updated: 25 February 2006
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