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Commitment title:

Increasing contraceptive prevalence

Commitment description:

Increase the contraceptive prevalence rate from 17.8 per cent in 2015 to 50 per cent, and procure and make the various contraceptive methods available at the last mile.

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(2) Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, and universal availability of quality, affordable and safe modern contraceptives.

Mode of engagement:

  • Programmatic action
Commitment made in : Mauritania
To be actioned in : Mauritania
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Reducing the maternal mortality rate

Commitment description:

Reduce the maternal mortality rate from 582 to 70 per 100,000 live births by: training 2,200 obstetric nurses and midwives, and recruiting 1,000 more, making the death audit and review system operational, including for maternal deaths, and bringing reproductive health services closer to vulnerable populations.

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(3) 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.

Mode of engagement:

  • Programmatic action
Commitment made in : Mauritania
To be actioned in : Mauritania
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Reproductive health education for adolescents and young people

Commitment description:

Integrate a module on reproductive health into school curricula (middle school and high school), develop and implement a family life education programme involving parents, adolescents, religious and traditional leaders, and integrate a module on adolescent reproductive health into the curricula of health and medical schools.

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(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.

Modes of engagement:

  • Policy and guidance
  • Programmatic action
Commitment made in : Mauritania
To be actioned in : Mauritania
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Addressing GBV

Commitment description:

Eliminate gender-based violence: (i) eradicate child marriage (from 35.2 per cent in 2015 to 0 per cent) by enforcing laws prohibiting this practice and carrying out the Programme of Action aimed at eradicating child marriage with the help of leaders and the media; (ii) eradicate FGM among girls aged 0–14 years, from 53 per cent in 2015 to 0 per cent, by adopting and enforcing texts criminalizing GBV/FGM.

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(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.

Modes of engagement:

  • Change or creation of legislation
  • Programmatic action
Commitment made in : Mauritania
To be actioned in : Mauritania
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Gender- and RBM-sensitive budgeting.

Commitment description:

Introduce the principles of gender-sensitive budgeting and RBM, in accordance with the Programme of the President of the Republic.

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(6) Using national budget processes, including gender budgeting and auditing, increasing domestic financing and exploring new, participatory and innovative financing instruments and structures to ensure full, effective and accelerated implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.

Mode of engagement:

  • Budgetary and financial
Commitment made in : Mauritania
To be actioned in : Mauritania
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Budget allocated to the health sector

Commitment description:

Increase the health budget to 15 per cent, as recommended by the Abuja conference.

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(7) Increasing international financing for the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action, to complement and catalyze domestic financing, in particular of sexual and reproductive health programmes, and other supportive measures and interventions that promote gender equality and girls’ and women’s empowerment.

Mode of engagement:

  • Budgetary and financial
Commitment made in : Mauritania
To be actioned in : Mauritania
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Policy coordination framework harnessing the demographic dividend.

Commitment description:

Establish a Presidential Council to monitor social policies and converge policies towards harnessing the demographic dividend, and implement national programmes aimed at access to reproductive health services, girls' education and women's economic empowerment.

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(8) Investing in the education, employment opportunities, health, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, of adolescents and youth, especially girls, so as to fully harness the promises of the demographic dividend.

Mode of engagement:

  • Programmatic action
Commitment made in : Mauritania
To be actioned in : Mauritania
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National statistical system reform

Commitment description:

Reform the national statistical system and carry out the GPHC in 2023, the DHS, the Ongoing Survey on Household Living Conditions and the National Survey on GBV every five years.

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(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
Commitment made in : Mauritania
To be actioned in : Mauritania
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Youth policy focused on creating lasting employment

Commitment description:

Operationalize a youth policy focused on creating sustainable employment; implement a National Strategy for Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health and create platforms for dialogue promoting culture, national values, citizenship, equity, social cohesion and peace.

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(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:

  • Programmatic action
Commitment made in : Mauritania
To be actioned in : Mauritania
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Achieve zero unmet need for family planning.

Commitment description:

Mali is committed to achieving zero unmet need for family planning through: • guaranteeing free access to contraceptive products for all by 2023; guaranteeing free access to obstetric care (ANC, childbirths, etc.) and caesarean sections by 2023; • the training and mass recruitment of health service providers to cover all needs; • providing free RH services for young people and adolescents by 2023.

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(2) Zero unmet need for family planning information and services, and universal availability of quality, affordable and safe modern contraceptives.

Modes of engagement:

  • Budgetary and financial
  • Programmatic action
Commitment made in : Mali
To be actioned in : Mali

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