Meet Elisa, the midwife who leads the delivery room at San Andrés Hospital in Colombia.
With her team, she ensures that every woman receives quality health care while being treated with dignity and respect.
See how UNFPA supports her and other midwives around the world.
Resource date: 2019
Author: Rose Khonje, Johanna Blanco, Zahrasadat Mirniam, Meron Negussie, Adjoa Yenyi, Maria Bakaroudis, Virginia Camacho, Josephine Sauvarin, Ilya Zhukov, Petar Mladenov, Bente Faugli
The Country Cases Series are developed within UNFPA's project “Out-of-School Comprehensive sexuality education for those left furthest behind” in Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iran and Malawi, with the financial support of Norway. They show some key highlights from the implementation of the Programme at regional/country level and present good practices and lessons learned in reaching young people from left behind populations.
Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.
Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.
Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.
Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.
Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.
Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.
Colombia hosts the largest number of Venezuelan refugees and migrants. Some parts of the country also continue to be affected by armed violence. Measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 have disrupted access to basic services and exacerbate existing vulnerabilities. Reports of gender-based violence as well as unplanned pregnancies and maternal deaths are rising. UNFPA is working to ensure continuity of sexual and reproductive health services and mitigate the risk of gender-based violence, reaching both Venezuelan and Colombian women and girls, including in indigenous communities.