The United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) have schedule its annual planning meeting between February 25 and 27, 2020 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
The Regional Director for West and Central Africa Mabingue Ngom said, the meeting will also avail the UNPF managers the opportunity of collective accountability to ensure better results, enhanced coordination and collaboration.
“It is the first regional planning meeting, to focus on Nairobi summit on ICPD25 commitments in the region (RPM), following the overwhelmingly successful Nairobi summit which marked the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25)”. He said.
According to him, the Summit held in November 2019, in Nairobi, Kenya, and the world made over 1,200 bold commitments to ending all maternal deaths, unmet need for family planning and gender-based violence and harmful practices against women and girls by 2030.
He noted that lessons have drawn from the past two years while integrating the bold commitments of ICPD25 to scale-up, and accelerate the delivery of the UNPF three transformative results of zero unmet need for family planning, zero preventable maternal deaths, and zero gender-based violence and harmful practices by 2030.
Ngom said “It meeting of strategic reflections to discuss the progress made half-way down the implementation of UNFPA’s Strategic Plan (2018-2021).
“In addition, there is a need to prepare for sustained delivery of services given that the West and Central Africa region is facing unprecedented humanitarian and insecurity challenges, with several key elections taking place in 2020 that may impact the regular functioning of the organization.
“The managers will discuss UNPF’s role across the region in delivering on, and meeting targets within the Decade of Action to accelerate and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.”
