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Reduce the number of underage pregnancies and child marriages

The activities of FIRD over the 2020–2024 period are structured around the following words: a) Vision A stable and autonomous population that focuses on the support of the FIRD as a useful partnership.b) Mission Support the population in improving living conditions through respecting rights and duties, restoring the local state’s authority, increasing family income and ensuring sound management of the resources of decentralized territorial entities.c) Values -Transparency-Honesty -...

(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (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

Promote concrete actions in favour of girls and women so that they can freely choose what they want to be or do in their lives.

In the framework of the Development Plan 2018–2022, one main axis is the pact for equality for women and girls. The country's commitment is aimed at eliminating harmful practices including child marriage and early unions as well as all forms of violence against girls and women through territorial, institutional and community strategies. Girls and women from indigenous communities and rural and scattered areas are a priority in the improvement of timely access to physical and mental health,...

(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (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

Accelerated and effective actions to improve the health of adolescents and young people in Colombia

This commitment is part of the National Development Plan 2018–2022. It focuses on implementing a strategy to prevent adolescent pregnancy in rural areas, to accelerate the decline in the fertility rate among girls aged 10–14 years, and among adolescent women aged 15–19 years, in order to close the gap between urban and rural areas. One strategic axis is access to information and education on sexual and reproductive rights, for the decision-making and empowerment of girls and adolescents, as...

(4) 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.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Make advanced demographic transitions in Colombia statistically visible to contribute to understanding their implications in terms of social protection demands as well as their integration into economic dynamics with a focus on equality

Comprehensively address the knowledge of the change in age structures in populations with advanced demographic transitions in Colombia, based on high-quality, timely and disaggregated data. In this sense, DANE will draw on both traditional statistical methods and alternative sources, such as administrative records and big data, in order to effectively materialize the impacts of population ageing on people, institutions and the economy, which is key to understanding new social protection...

(10) Providing quality, timely and disaggregated data, that ensures privacy of citizens and is also inclusive of younger adolescents, investing in digital health innovations, including in big data systems, and improvement of data systems to inform policies aimed at achieving sustainable development.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Ensure the production of reliable statistical information on the intensive migration phenomena that Colombia has been facing since 2017, to promote the formulation of public policies for the full integration of the migrant population

As part of the Mesa Interinstitucional de Estadísticas de Migración, DANE will coordinate the establishment of an information system to collect and centralize administrative records and the information produced by other government bodies on the migrant population in Colombia, so that the information system will be fully operational by 2022. This will make it possible to correct the asymmetry in information on this population and will result in the formulation of public policies aimed at...

(10) Providing quality, timely and disaggregated data, that ensures privacy of citizens and is also inclusive of younger adolescents, investing in digital health innovations, including in big data systems, and improvement of data systems to inform policies aimed at achieving sustainable development.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Overcome the statistical invisibility of population groups that suffer discrimination, such as women, people with disabilities, migrants, the LGBTI population and other groups that suffer discrimination.

By 2022, the aim is to identify and implement strategies for the development of tools, and to include issues relating to sexual orientation, gender identity, characteristics of origin, disability and religion in the statistical exercises and information systems of the various branches of the national government.

Indigenous women fighting for our rights

Indigenous women are diverse. Despite this diversity, we tend towards defending our territories, starting with our bodies. This defence involves the construction of autonomy in a bill and a life that must ensure a decent way of life, both personally and in the community. This is the only way the survival of all people can be guaranteed. As such, working with women, their knowledge and their strength is our commitment to building inclusion for the elimination of gender-based violence and...

(11) Committing to the notion that nothing about young people’s health and well-being can be discussed and decided upon without their meaningful involvement and participation (“nothing about us, without us”).

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

My commitment is to advocate for sexual and reproductive rights.

Active participation in the fight to achieve this right through the different associations to which I belong

Social control to defend the ICPD25 agenda in Brazil

As part of the 25th anniversary of the ICPD, Brazilian civil society advocates for the full implementation of the ICPD, the Montevideo Consensus, the 2030 Agenda and the maintenance of important public policies created in the 30 years of redemocratization in the country, which are at risk and under attack. In 2019, Brazilian civil society organized 15 consultations on ICPD25 in all regions of the country, with meetings with different population groups to reposition the ICPD in Brazil and to...

(10) Providing quality, timely and disaggregated data, that ensures privacy of citizens and is also inclusive of younger adolescents, investing in digital health innovations, including in big data systems, and improvement of data systems to inform policies aimed at achieving sustainable development.

Modes of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

Improve the decision-making capabilities of primary health care facilities to enable timely and effective care for pregnant women by 2030.

Conduct ongoing training for medical staff to provide timely and effective care for pregnant women to avoid preventable maternal deaths.