Engagements

The Government of Ireland commits to continue to prioritise the implementation of the National Sexual Health Strategy 2017-20 by ensuring that everyone has access to appropriate sexual health education and information, that high quality sexual health services are available and affordable, and that good quality data is available to guide the delivery of services.
The Government of Ireland is committed to reviewing and updating the national curriculum for relationship and sexuality education in school settings. This review includes a review of both the national curriculum for relationship and sexuality education and how it is taught. This review will include information and education related to contraception, healthy, positive, sexual expression and relationships and consent, safe use of the internet, social media and its effects on relationships and self-esteem, and LGBTQ+ matters.

In West Africa, Italy will support the improvement of youth access and quality to health care and services, the building and strengthening of mechanisms for the youth empowering as well as promote campaigns for the social and behavioral change of adolescents.

In the Horn of Africa, Italy will support national health system in four programmatic areas: sexual and reproductive health, adolescent and youth, gender equality and empowerment of women and population dynamics.

We need to make utmost efforts to ensure that people in vulnerable situations or humanitarian contexts, especially women and girls, to have access to necessary services, giving special attention to SRH. This must be done under the concept of human security in order to ensure that no one is left behind.

We believe it is critical to address pressing population issues and demographic transitions including declining fertility, population aging and urbanization. In this regard, Japan has been sharing our lessons and knowledge on population aging at global and regional fora and would like to collaborate with the international community not just to share challenges and countermeasures but also to accelerate policy implementation from the perspective of the entire life-course, including to address low fertility and population ageing.

Building on our own experiences in achieving UHC, Japan has emphasized the importance of UHC across the world. In order to encourage each actor to remind themselves of their roles and reaffirm the goal of addressing the “Unfinished Business” of the ICPD Programme of Action and to promote various commitments presented here in Nairobi, we, Japan commits to accelerate the momentum to achieve Universal Health Coverage, which is to leave no one behind.

Commitment to the ICPD’s Program of Action, and the Sustainable Development Goals through following up on the implementation of Agenda 2030, which have been integrated in Jordan's Vision 2025 and the National Executive Program 2025.

Ensuring that adolescents and young people have comprehensive and age-appropriate information through the implementation of the National Standards for Youth-Friendly sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to help young people make sound decisions related to their SRH; the implementation of the 2019-2025 National Youth Strategy, in particular the focus on promoting youth health services; and approving the Children's Rights Act by the Council of Ministers which encompasses articles on the quality of services provided to children.

Jordan continues to commit itself to providing quality information, advice and family planning services based on the human rights approach, especially remote areas and vulnerable groups, as contained in the National Strategy for Reproductive Health (2020-2024) and in the cost-effective implementation Plan for Family Planning (2020-2024). The provision of family planning through the Ministry of Health and its distribution to all stakeholders and the improvement in using modern family planning methods from 37.4% in 2018 to 43.3% in 2025.

Activate the application of the legal age of marriage in Jordan and putting it into force without exceptions in order to prevent marriages for girls under 18 years old, and this should be applicable to males and females equally.

Measures are being taken to create in society an atmosphere of “zero tolerance” for violence against women and children. A Bill has been submitted to Parliament providing for tougher penalties for sexual violence against children, for domestic violence against women, and for human trafficking.
Deputies of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan initiated a new version of the Law on the prevention of domestic violence, which is currently being considered. This Bill includes all forms of violence - physical, psychological, sexual, economic - and provides comprehensive prevention and response measures. The Bill will also provide statistical reporting on domestic violence, including gender-disaggregated data and other indicators.
Furthermore, Kazakhstan is taking the necessary steps to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention.

The Government of Kazakhstan is working to reduce the legal age by which an adolescent can access health services without parental consent from 18 to 16. This is being done through development of a new Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On Health of People and the Healthcare System” which is currently being discussed in the Parliament for approval by 2021.

Starting from January 2020, in addition to the State Guaranteed Health Benefit Package which already provides free services to all pregnant women, the Government will cover 91 outpatient Youth Friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services through a newly introduced Social Health Insurance System. This will cover all Young People, including those under 18, all university and vocational students as well as all unemployed (officially registered) Young People below 28 years of age.
In addition, the Ministry of Health commits to fund at least one Youth Health Centre in each region of Kazakhstan by 2021 that provides Youth Friendly SRH Information, Counselling and Services.

Kazakhstan made significant progress to reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio from 75.8 per 100,000 livebirths in 1990 down to 13.9 – in 2018 (reduction by 5.5 times). The Ministry of Health commits to continue investing in reducing preventable maternal deaths by updating knowledge and skills of Primary Heath Care workers on antenatal care, safe delivery and family planning and institutionalization of Confidential Audit of Maternal Deaths.

Essential SRHR package of interventions in the context of UHC: the Kiribati Vision 20 (KV20), the National Health Strategic Plan (2020 – 2023), the National Youth Policy (2018-2022) and our pledge for Universal Health Coverage, at the UN High Level Meeting in September this year; the Government of Kiribati, commit to achieving zero unmet need for family planning information and services and universal availability of quality, affordable and safe modern contraceptives by no later than 2030; as contained in SDG target 3.7 and SDG target 5.6. We will achieve this by ensuring availability and accessibility of quality family planning services which are client friendly; providing at least 3 modern methods of family planning at all primary level facilities and 5 or more methods. of modern contraception at the secondary and tertiary level facilities.

The Government of Kiribati will ensure zero preventable maternal deaths by no later than 2030, as contained in SDG target 3.7 and SDG target 5.6. We will achieve this by increasing the number of basic quality emergency obstetric and newborn care services with clear referral criteria and routes, adoption of quality improvement mechanisms and ensuring equitable distribution of competent and skilled workforce.

The Government of Kiribati, commit to promoting women empowerment and gender equality as means of ensuring zero gender based violence by no later than 2030. We will achieve this by:
1. Integrating into the curricula of the nursing and midwifery schools ICM competencies to ensure integrated GBV including for persons with disabilities and during humanitarian response, and roll out the new curricula by 2022;
2. We will have GBV prevention and response information in every Health Service Delivery Point including in the outer islands by 2022. We will integrate into nursing and midwifery school curricula, ICM competencies to ensure integrated GBV care, including for persons with disabilities and during humanitarian response, roll out the new curricula; have GBV prevention/response information in every Service Delivery Point by 2022.

In line with Kiribati Vision 20 and the National Youth Policy, the Government of Kiribati also commit to ensuring access for adolescents and youth including those with disabilities to comprehensive and age-appropriate information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make informed choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives that protect them from unintended pregnancies, gender-based violence and STIs. By 2022, we will have:
1. delivered Family Life Education in - and out-of-schools, using curriculum aligned with the international technical guidance and reflecting the national evidence-base on adolescents and youth health and wellbeing;
2. Scaled-up the Kiribati Y-PEER network to reach every youth in every outer island;
3. In every Service Delivery Point, have at least one healthcare staff trained in adolescents and youth friendly and disability inclusive SRHR services provision.

Data Drive to Leave No One Behind: We, the Government of Kiribati, commit to increased utilization of data for evidence based decision making and policy development which will target the most vulnerable and most in need including women, youth and adolescent, and the disabled. We will achieve this by strengthening our data collection systems related population, sexual and reproductive health services and gender based violence response and ensure that all data can be dis-aggregated by sex, age and disability.

In alignment with the Nairobi ICPD25 Summit global commitments for “SRHR in Humanitarian and Fragile Contexts”, the KV20 and the Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Bill, we, the Government of Kiribati acknowledge that women, young people and other vulnerable populations disproportionately face heightened risk of Gender Based Violence and additional barriers to SRHR during disasters. We therefore commit to ensuring populations affected by disasters have access to essential life-saving RH services and protection from all forms of violence to reduce morbidity, mortality and disability. By 2022, we will have integrated the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) in disaster management plans and response efforts.

The Government of Kiribati perseveres toward a wealthy, healthy and peaceful nation with her people at the center of sustainable development, as articulated in Kiribati 20 Year Vision 2016-2036 (KV20). The KV20 vision recognizes that good health through universal health coverage is a prerequisite for economic growth, poverty reduction and the realization of the ICPD Programme of Action and the SDGs. We will double-up all efforts for the full and effective implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action and the SDGs.

In order to overcome the issue of low birth rates, Korea makes the following commitments. To create a society where all citizens raise a child together and work together, the Korean government will:
1. Reduce the burden of childbirth and childcare expenses,
2. Ensure that parents spend more time with their children,
3. Establish a secure childcare system with no blind spots,
4. Create an inclusive family culture that respects all children,
5. Lay the foundation for stable life for the younger generation.

To join the global endeavors to advance the WPS agenda, Korea launched the "Action with Women and Peace" initiative in 2018. Korea will convene an annual international conference and support development and humananitarian assistance projects.

To prevent various forms of violence against women and to complement the limitations of individual laws on sexual violence, domestic violence, etc., the government will establish a Basic Plan on the Prevention of Violence against Women based on the related Framework Act which enters into force in December 2019.

The government will also annually evaluate the implementation plans of central and local governments in order to build a platform for comprehensive and systematic policy implementation to eliminate sexual and gender-based violence, with no blind spots left unaddressed.