Editing United Nations Population Fund (section)

==Areas of work==
UNFPA is the world's largest multilateral source of funding for population and [[reproductive health]] programs. The Fund works with governments and non-governmental organizations in over 150 countries with the support of the international community, supporting programs that help women, men and young people:

* voluntarily plan and have the number of children they desire and to avoid unwanted [[pregnancy|pregnancies]]
* undergo safe pregnancy and childbirth
* avoid spreading [[sexually transmitted infections]]
* decrease [[violence against women]]
* increase the equality of women
* encouraging the use of birth control<ref name="DNE_Birth_Control_2018">{{cite news |title=Ministry of Social Solidarity announces national strategy for birth control |url=https://dailynewsegypt.com/2018/05/27/ministry-of-social-solidarity-announces-national-strategy-for-birth-control/ |access-date=16 October 2018 |work=Daily News Egypt |date=27 May 2018}}</ref>

UNFPA uses a human rights-based approach in programming to address three "transformative goals":<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unfpa.org/data/transformative-results|title=UNFPA Transformative Results |publisher=UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref>

# Zero preventable maternal death
# Zero gender-based violence
# Zero unmet need for family planning.

The Fund raises awareness of and supports efforts to meet these goals, advocates close attention to population concerns and helps nations formulate policies and strategies in support of [[sustainable development]].<ref name="DNE_Birth_Control_2018" /> Osotimehin assumed leadership in January 2011. The Fund is also represented by [[UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador]]s and a Patron.

===How it works===
UNFPA works in partnership with governments, along with other United Nations agencies, communities, NGOs, foundations and the private sector, to raise awareness and mobilize the support and resources needed to achieve its mission to promote the rights and health of women and young people. For instance, it is one of the co-sponsors of the [[Special Programme on Human Reproduction]].<ref name=SRH>{{Cite web|url=https://www.who.int/teams/sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-research-(srh)/human-reproduction-programme|title=sexual and reproductive health and research-SHR|access-date=5 April 2023}}</ref>

Contributions from governments and the private sector to UNFPA in 2016 totaled $848 million. The amount includes $353 million for the organization's core resources and $495 million earmarked for specific programs and initiatives. As a result of the economic impact of [[COVID-19 pandemic|coronavirus pandemic]], the United Kingdom imposed 85% aid cut to UNFPA.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-04-29|title=Foreign aid: UK cuts its pledge to UN family planning by 85%|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56924128|access-date=2021-07-13}}</ref>

Examples of campaigns:

===Campaign to end fistula===
* This UNFPA-led global campaign works to prevent [[obstetric fistula]], a devastating and socially isolating injury of childbirth, to treat women who live with the condition and help those who have been treated to return to their communities. The campaign works in more than 40 countries in Africa, the Arab States and South Asia.
* The leader of the campaign to end fistula, Erin Anastasi, decided to start this campaign in 2003 in hopes of ending the deaths of new mothers after developing fistula. This campaign is now active in over 50 countries working not only to prevent fistula but also to give fistula survivors a sense of reforming their life after overcoming this burden. Nearly 800 women in Africa and Asia die after childbirth and more than 2 million young women live with untreated obstetric fistula in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The campaign focuses mainly on providing training and funds to support women living with fistula, and also programs aimed towards survivors. The campaign is also looking at ways to prevent fistula from developing in general by providing medical supplies and technical guidance and support.

===Ending female genital mutilation===
* UNFPA has worked for many years to end the practice of [[female genital mutilation]], the partial or total removal of external female genital organs for cultural or other non-medical reasons. The practice, which affects 100–140 million women and girls across the world, violates their [[right to health]] and bodily integrity. In 2007, UNFPA in partnership with [[UNICEF]], launched a $44 million program to reduce the practice by 40 per cent in 16 countries by 2015 and to end it within a generation. UNFPA also recently sponsored a Global Technical Consultation,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unfpa.org/gender/fgm2007|title=Technical Consultation on the Medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting |publisher=UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund |access-date=7 May 2015}}</ref> which drew experts from all over the world to discuss strategies to convince communities to abandon the practice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unfpa.org/gender/practices1.htm|title=Gender-based violence |publisher=UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund |access-date=7 May 2015}}</ref> UNFPA supports the campaign to end female genital mutilation with ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>[https://reliefweb.int/report/kenya/unfpa-partners-guardian-fight-against-fgm UNFPA partners with the Guardian in the fight against FGM] reliefweb.int</ref>