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Who We Are

Who We Are

Who We Are

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UNFPA Global

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

We promote gender equality and empower women, girls and young people to take control of their bodies and their futures. We work with partners in more than 150 countries to provide access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services, with the goal of ending unmet need for family planning, preventable maternal death and gender-based violence and harmful practices including child marriage female genital mutilation by 2030.

Our moto is "Ensuring rights and choices for all"

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UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people. Its mission: to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

Our 3 transformative results

In 2018, UNFPA launched efforts to achieve three transformative results, also known as the three zeros, by 2030:

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Zero unmet need for family planning

We are the world’s single-largest provider of donated conctraceptives to devloping countries, and our programmes increases the availability of contraceptives and dismantle barriers to services.

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Zero preventable maternal deaths

We are the world’s single-largest provider of donated conctraceptives to devloping countries, and our programmes increases the availability of contraceptives and dismantle barriers to services.

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Zero gender-based violence and harmful practices

We are the world’s single-largest provider of donated conctraceptives to devloping countries, and our programmes increases the availability of contraceptives and dismantle barriers to services.

Leadership

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Executive Director

Dr. Natalia Kanem

Dr. Natalia Kanem was appointed Executive Director of UNFPA on 3 October 2017 by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. She brings more than 30 years of strategic leadership experience in the fields of medicine, public and reproductive health, peace, social justice and philanthropy. “The UNFPA mandate has never been more relevant,” said Dr. Kanem, who is the fifth Executive Director since the Fund became operational in 1969.
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Deputy Executive Director (Programme)

Diene Keita

Ms. Keita joined UNFPA in 2006 as Representative in Mauritania, and thereafter served in representative positions in Benin, as well as in DRC and N


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Regional Director

Regional Director

Ms Laila Baker

Laila Baker is the Regional Director for Arab States in UNFPA, the UN agency for sexual and reproductive health. Ms. Baker has 30 years internatio


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