The National Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Youth Consultation to inform the United Republic of Tanzania’s Voluntary National Review (VNR) Report on Agenda 2030 and the SDGs was held in Dar es Salaam on the 28th March 2019, with the theme “Leave no youth behind.”

Women and girls face extraordinary hardships in humanitarian settings; they endure grave risks and many are thrust into poverty. But they can also face another, more intimate, hardship – the effects of displacement on their sexual and reproductive health and rights.

UNFPA Tanzania, under the Afya Bora ya Mama na Mtoto Project (Accelerating Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Zanzibar), which is a joint UNFPA-UNICEF programme supported by Global Affairs Canada, is working with the Ministry of Health, Zanzibar, to increase both the quantity and quality of the workforce available to provide comprehensive emergency obstetric newborn care (CeMONC) in Zanzibar.