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UN Agencies in Nairobi
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United Nations Populations Fund
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| Contacts: |
UNFPA
United Nations Office at Nairobi
United Nations Avenue, Gigiri
P.O. Box 30128
Nairobi
Phone: (254-2) 7624401, 7624404, 7624405,
Fax: (254-2) 7 624422
E-mail: ken.unfpa@undp.org
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| Agency Representative:
| Resident Representative
Dr. Mustafa Kemal
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| Information Officer:
| Ms. Floarence Gachanja
Phone: (254-2) 624426
Fax: (254-2) 624422
E-mail: gachanja@unfpa.org
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| Website Address :
| Agency's Website
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| Mission Statement:
| UNFPA's mandate as laid down by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in 1973 is to:
Build the knowledge and the capacity to respond to needs in population and family planning;
Promote awareness of population problems in both developed and developing countries and possible strategies to deal with these problems;
Assist developing countries, at their request, in dealing with their population problems, in the forms and means best suited to the individual country's needs;
Play a leading role in the United Nations system in promoting population Programmes, and to coordinate projects supported by UNFPA.
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| Agency Activities:
| UNFPA provides assistance to developing countries to improve reproductive health and universal family planning services on the basis of individual choices, and to formulate population policies in support of efforts towards sustained and sustainable development. UNFPA is an advocate for the goals of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), including better health for all, but especially for women and the girl-child; for women's empowerment and gender equity, and for international consensus on population and sustainable development.
Since the ICPD, UNFPA Programmes in Kenya have been responding to priority needs of the government and covers support to the broad areas of Reproductive Health (RH); Population and Development Strategies (PDS); and Advocacy. The current Fifth Country Programme of support to the Kenya Government is in the amount of $20 million for the period 1997-2003. Out of this, 65% is in support of Reproductive Health Programmes in the areas of increasing access and quality of integrated RH services, safe motherhood, and adolescents and youth reproductive health needs, and STDs/HIV/AIDS; 30% is for Population and Development Strategies, mainly for the 1999 Population Census (providing approximately 10% of the total census cost), and the development and implementation of the new Population Policy for Sustainable Development. The remaining 5% is for advocacy Programmes in areas such as elimination of harmful practices affecting women and children, particularly the girl-child.
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