UNFPA - stöd till landprogram i DRK UNFPA - Country Programme Support DRC This contribution aims at strenthening UNFPA's capacity to deliver on the results set by the organisation's country programme for DRC covering the period 2020-2023. 

In DRC, all indicators concerning maternal health, sexual and reproductive services and rights (SRHR), including poor access to contraceptives are alarming. Also, overall policy environment with regards to SRHR and population dynamics is inadapted to country's challenges. UNFPA is a key actor in DRC whose strong action within the framework of its global mandate is needed to support both decision makers, implementing actors (international and national), and different target groups (professionals as well as services users, such as the youth).

This contribution proposes providing an institutional support to UNFPA in the country to allow them flexibility, freedom and means to position themselves and provide the needed assistance to the multitude of actors on SRHR and related issues in the country. Denna insats syftar till att förstärka UNFPA: s kapacitet att leverera de resultat som anges i organisationens landprogram för Demokratiska Republiken Kongo under perioden 2020-2023.

I DRK är alla indikatorer som rör kvinnors hälsa, sexuella och reproduktiva tjänster och rättigheter (SRHR) oroande, framförallt är den knappa tillgången till preventivmedel och det höga antalet ungdomsgraviditeter alarmerande. Dessutom är den övergripande policymiljön när det gäller SRHR och befolkningsdynamik inte anpassad till landets utmaningar. UNFPA är en nyckelaktör i DRK, vars starka insatser inom ramen för dess globala mandat behövs för att stödja både beslutsfattare, genomförande aktörer på internationell och nationell nivå, och kunna nå ut till olika målgrupper som kvinnor, ungdomar, vårdgivare och institutioner.

Detta institutionella stöd till UNFPA ger dem flexibilitet, frihet och medel för att positionera sig och ge stöd till aktörer inom SRHR och relaterade frågor i landet. This contribution is intended to support the UNFPA DRC country office in contributing to the following objectives: (1) strengthened national capacities to improve financing and develop and implement policies and programmes that address sexual and reproductive health and right’s needs; (2) integrated high quality services delivery and information for maternal health, family planning, Sexually Transmitted Infections/HIV, (3) to ensure that young people and adolescents, especially disadvantaged adolescent’s girls are empowered to have the capacity to claim their rights and access to sexual and reproductive health services; (4) to strengthened national accountability mechanisms to prevent SGBV and promote gender equality and to provide holistic care to victims of SGBV. These objectives will be pursued in stable as well as in humanitarian context.
 
In addition to the aformentioned objectives it has been decided to provide additional support to UNFPA, as the global champion on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and as the lead agency of the Task Force on SEA allegations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to strengthen safeguarding mechanisms including prevention, response, coordination and community engagement with regards to PSEA.