A robust and fully-functioning civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system is fundamental to rights-based inclusive development, good governance and the realization of human rights. Since 2010 UNFPA has been supporting the Zanzibar Civil Status Registration Agency (ZCRSA) to develop a modern and electronic civil registration system.
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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.
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Launched in July 2018, the Ujana Wangu Nguvu Yangu Project responds to the tremendous sexual and reproductive health needs and challenges faced by adolescents and young people, both in the community and in refugee camps, in Kigoma Region.
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Launched in April 2015, the Afya Bora ya Mama na Mtoto Project (Accelerating Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Zanzibar) is a joint UNFPA-UNICEF programme supported by Global Affairs Canada, in partnership with the Ministry of Health Zanzibar, to improve maternal and child health outcomes.
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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.
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2018 was a year of expansion for UNFPA in Tanzania. We continue to put the most vulnerable and marginalized at the forefront of our efforts, including those in fragile settings, in support of Tanzania’s vision and priorities.
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Welcome to the first edition of Kamili!
Join us in looking back over the year’s events where government took the lead to accelerate efforts to end FGM at the policy level; anti-FGM Tanzanian activities took centre stage at the international level; and organizations and individuals maintained dialogues with a wide range of community members to commit them to abandoning this harmful practice.
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As UNFPA marks the implementation of the first year of its eighth country programme (2016/17-2020/21) in Tanzania, it does so in a country that is experiencing change. Tanzania is moving steadily towards middle-income status, and changes in the population structure have resulted in a very youthful population. Sustainable development can only be achieved if it is inclusive, leaving no one behind.
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Access to voluntary family planning allows women and men to secure their reproductive rights to decide freely, and for themselves, whether, when, and how many children they want to have.
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