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Say #IDONT to fight child marriage this Valentine's Day
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Sub-Regional Office Director/Representative
S/he leads and motivates the UNFPA team in the development of innovative, relevant approaches for engagement on issues related to population and development, sexual and reproductive health and gender.
UNFPA Leadership Pool Initiative
Join a new generation of leaders. Successful candidates will benefit from tailored development opportunities to enhance readiness to assume leadership posts and enable successful delivery of our mandate.
Youth & Gender Specialist
The Youth and Gender Specialist will be responsible for the provision of technical advisory services to support the youth and gender activities.
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Meet Lena
June 16, 2015Today Lena becomes a teenager. The world around her is full of possibilities. But also risks. See what opportunities and risks Lena and other girls and young women are facing in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and how UNFPA is assisting the countries in the region to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.
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Demographic Dividend
May 29, 2015A country with both increasing numbers of young people and declining fertility has the potential to reap a ‘demographic dividend’ – a boost in economic productivity that occurs when there are growing numbers of people in the workforce relative to the number of dependents.
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UNFPA supports survivors of Boko Haram abduction
May 6, 2015Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, reports on UNFPA’s support to women and girls freed from insurgent group Boko Haram.