Government of the State of Eritrea's Commitment

1. Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, and universal availability of quality, accessible, affordable and safe modern contraceptives.  

2. Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights. 

3. Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and  gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood. 

   (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation
     (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential. 

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action
  Capacity Building Human Resource Development Advocacy and Community mobilization Review of policies; strategic and operational planning Strengthen Logistics and supply Research, Monitoring and Evaluation