2016 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: By the Numbers
<p>The 2016 Annual Report for the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting analyses the progress being made towards abandoning female genital mutilation.&nbsp;</p>
Seventeen Ways to End FGM/C
<p>This is a companion booklet to the 2016 Annual Report for the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting.</p>
H6 Partnership Annual Report 2016
<p>This report reviews progress in 2016 and since the inception of the H6 Joint Programme collaboration with Canada and Sweden (Sida). The report features findings from a recent evaluation of this programme, which mobilized $99.76 million to provide catalytic and strategic support to national health systems to address the root causes of poor health outcomes in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d&rsquo;Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Zimbabwe.&nbsp;</p>
Sexuality education offers life-saving lessons to Zambia’s young people
“I have seen girls become pregnant, become victims of violence and become HIV-positive, and I don't want to become one of those girls,” said 13-year-old Lydia Mwelwa, a student at Kabulonga Basic School in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital.
Teen mothers in Kenya become powerful advocates for change
Purity Bahati was only 15 when she started dating her boyfriend, a 28-year-old man. “He told me he loved me, and I believed him,” she said. She was pregnant by the time she was 17. The pregnancy forced her to drop out of the public school she attended in Kenya’s Kilifi County. “My parents were so furious with me, and they kicked me out of their home,” she said.