→ Click here to participate in the survey  Twenty-five years ago, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) took place in Cairo, Egypt. The ICPD is regarded as one of the most significant global conferences ever held, as the ICPD Programme of Action signed by 179 countries transformed the way in which countries address population, poverty reduction and sustainable development issues – pu...

Ethiopia launched  National Roadmap on Child Marriage and FGM/C costed USD 94 million to embody Ethiopia’s effort to achieve the SDG to eliminate all harmful practices. Child marriage and FGM are the most prevalent forms of harmful traditional practices in Ethiopia and constitute the worst forms of human rights violations against women and girls with adverse impact on their health, family and social life and econom...

UNFPA and UNICEF today jointly signed work plans with the Federal and Regional governments of Ethiopia. The work plans worth more than USD 10 million will be implemented in the Ethiopian Fiscal year 2012 between July 2019 and June 2020.  The work plans were signed with the Ministry of Finance and Regional Bureaus of Finance and Economic Development.  During the signing ceremony Ato Admasu Nebebe, State Minister of...