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15/06/2023

 

Parent-Adolescent Communication, combined with economic empowerment program foster the ability of Teen mothers to reach their potential to be productive and innovative

28/04/2023

Reducing preventable maternal deaths by providing nursing students with necessary quality skills and lab equipment. In partnership with

@RwandaHealth, #UNFPA continued the distribution of simulation equipment in 7 high schools with nursing programs across Rwanda.

27/04/2023

Community engagement has been regarded as a vital component to ensure that adolescents and young people have access to information on Sexual and Reproductive Health and rights (SRHR) to reduce the possibility for youth to be exposed to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) including HIV, early and unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions, child marriages and gender-based violence (GBV).

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), through the Safeguard Young People (SYP) Programme, with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and other partners, led a two-day field visit to Karongi and Nyamasheke districts of the Western Province in Rwanda.

To tackle the issue of early and unintended pregnancies, UNFPA is supporting the Government of Rwanda in implementing Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)  both in and out of school countrywide. CSE is a curriculum-based education that is age-appropriate, socio-culturally sensitive and scientifically accurate information on Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) to help young people to make safer choices. So far, 121 master trainers have been capacitated and over 1.5 million students received knowledge and skills on culturally sensitive and age-appropriate CSE to make informed decisions. Anthanasie Mukankusi, Vice Mayor of Social Affairs, Nyamasheke district urged teachers to mainstream the concepts of CSE into daily teachings. 

27/02/2023

Health Development Initiative (HDI) in partnership with Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), launched an ambitious mobile mentorship initiative dubbed "MobiMenta" as part of other existing interventions to reduce preventable maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Supported by Laerdal Global Health, the initiative will facilitate a capacity-building model which allows the tailoring of training packages to specific individual needs of the targeted health facilities. The continuous support of on-the-job mentorship will lead to long-term improvements in the health sector and will bridge gaps in emergency obstetric neonatal care (EmONC), family planning (FP) and comprehensive abortion care (CAC).

30/01/2023

Ensuring access to SRH information & services for persons with disabilities

30/01/2023

The Innovation Accelerator (iAccelerator) is a mentorship-driven acceleration programme, supporting young entrepreneurs with seed funding, training, and skills development to generate innovative solutions in response to challenges related to sexual and reproductive health, mental health, sexuality education, family planning, maternal health and other population development issues.

30/01/2023

Empowered to empower others: Peer educators promoting Sexual & Reproductive Health in Refugee camps

30/01/2023

From 13th to 15th October 2022, UNFPA East and Southern Africa Regional Director, Ms. Lydia Zigomo attended the 5th Youth Connekt Africa Summit in Kigali Rwanda where, together with the First Lady of Rwanda, H.E Mrs Jeannette Kagame, met and discussed with over 2500 young people from different countries across Africa, in a high-level session on Sexual and Reproductive health and Mental Health organized by Imbuto Foundation and the UNFPA.

As part of the 2022 Youth Connekt Africa Summit, Ms Lydia Zigomo, also attended the final pitching of 6 young innovators of the Early and Unintended pregnancy Hacklab, which provided an opportunity to interact with young innovators from east and southern Africa region.

UNFPA has been engaging in the Youth Connekt Africa initiative since 2017. At a time when the African Union declared 2017 the year of the Demographic Dividend and investment in young people that facilitated the development and launch of the AU road map.

30/01/2023

Nyiranzavugimana Florence, a young mother from Karongi District of Western province in Rwanda, who had her child at 19 Years old, and was rejected by her family, when her parents learned that she was pregnant. She participated in training sessions provided by the Imbuto foundation that helped her to reconnect with her parents and get the moral support she desperately needed.

30/01/2023

Urukundo Initiative, a Rwandan youth-led health organization emerged as one of the winners of the first-ever Joint Innovation Challenge of UNFPA, a competition that awards innovative solutions that advance the empowerment of women and girls worldwide. 

Urukundo initiative is the producer of Urukundo Board Game & Information Package, a Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) board game that aims to provide friendly, safe, trustful, and evidence-based Sexual and Reproductive health information to young people in Rwanda. 

The Urukundo initiative was announced as one of ten winners of the innovation challenge on 3rd August 2022, by Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA’s Executive Director in New York. 

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