Norway
Universal Health Coverage
Norway commits to invest approximately NOK 10,4 billion in sexual and reproductive health and rights for the period 2020-2025. This includes approximately 9,6 billion to SRHR for the period of 2020-2025, and NOK 760 million for the period 2020-2023 to eliminate harmful practices. In addition, Norway commits NOK 1 billion for the period 2019-2021 to protection against SGVB and provision of sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian situations.
Norway
Gender Equality
Norway’s substantial investments in girls’ education and global health, we pledged in 2017 to increase our investments in SRHR by NOK 700 million by 2020. This pledge has been reached in 2019, one year early. In 2018 alone, Norway’s total investments in SRHR amounted to close to NOK 1.6 billion.
Norway
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Norwegian Government commits to the overall goal of ensuring the basic needs and rights of the affected population, including their SRHR needs, as critical components of humanitarian response. Norway’s humanitarian strategy gives strong priority to protection against SGBV. During the strategy period, Norway will increase its support towards preventing SGBV and to follow up the survivors. Priority will be given to improving the protection of women and children who are at risk of human trafficking, child and forced marriage and organised prostitution.
Norway
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Norway commits too:
1. Provide NOK 1 billion in funding for protection against SGVB and provision of sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian crises for the period 2019-2021.
2. Work with humanitarian partners to strengthen prevention and response to SGBV in humanitarian crises
3. Raise the issue systematically with all partners that receive humanitarian assistance from Norway, including at board meetings of funds and programmes, and in other relevant contexts. Fulfil Norway’s commitments made at the international conference “Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Crises”.
1. Provide NOK 1 billion in funding for protection against SGVB and provision of sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian crises for the period 2019-2021.
2. Work with humanitarian partners to strengthen prevention and response to SGBV in humanitarian crises
3. Raise the issue systematically with all partners that receive humanitarian assistance from Norway, including at board meetings of funds and programmes, and in other relevant contexts. Fulfil Norway’s commitments made at the international conference “Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Crises”.
Norway
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
In line with the Norwegian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2019-2022, we will be particularly aware of the needs of refugees and internally displaced persons, women of reproductive age, children born of war and women and men subjected to discrimination of different kinds. For example on the basis of sexual orientation, ethnic and religious identity or impaired functional ability.
We commit to increase the proportion of Norwegian development assistance to countries in conflict and post-conflict marked with a gender marker to no less than the UN goal of 15 % in peacebuilding.
We commit to increase the proportion of Norwegian development assistance to countries in conflict and post-conflict marked with a gender marker to no less than the UN goal of 15 % in peacebuilding.
Norway
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Norway has an action plan on eliminating female genital mutilation, forced marriage and negative social control. In addition, prevention of negative social control and harmful practices has been made one of four main pillars in the Government’s new integration strategy “Through Knowledge 2019 – 2022”.
1. One of the actions to prevent negative social control and harmful practices in Norway is to appoint minority councilors in upper secondary schools.
2. In 2019, NOK 18 million was earmarked to increase the number of minority councilors in upper secondary schools. The councilors provide expertise and counselling for students to help prevent harmful practices and forced marriages. In 2020, an additional NOK 15 million has been earmarked for this purpose. Services are also provided for survivors.
1. One of the actions to prevent negative social control and harmful practices in Norway is to appoint minority councilors in upper secondary schools.
2. In 2019, NOK 18 million was earmarked to increase the number of minority councilors in upper secondary schools. The councilors provide expertise and counselling for students to help prevent harmful practices and forced marriages. In 2020, an additional NOK 15 million has been earmarked for this purpose. Services are also provided for survivors.
Norway
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Midwives and physicians attending to pregnant patients are encouraged to be aware of symptoms indicating that their patients may be exposed to violence, and provide necessary support or action. Questions about violence or abuse are among the recommended questions on the maternity consultations' check list. Regional health authorities have a responsibility to offer specialist health services to adults and children who are victims of sexual assault.
Norway
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Norway commits itself to the overall goal of elimination of harmful practices, both nationally and globally. Norway commits too:
1. Strengthen the work on harmful practices in priority areas such as education, health, gender equality and human rights.
2. Maintain a high level of support for the UN’s work to eliminate harmful practices, in the form of both core funding and earmarked funding.
3. Strengthen cooperation with civil society organisations.
4. Initiate dialogue and collaboration with religious leaders and faith-based organisations
5. Safeguard global norms in the UN, including sexual and reproductive health and rights.
6. Base our work on the rights of children and youth and ensure their meaningful involvement.
7. Stand firm by the promise that the rights of women and girls must be fulfilled.
8. Strengthen collaboration with national and regional actors, affected governments and civil society.
9. Contribute to data collection and research in order to strengthen and share the knowledge base for effective approaches.
1. Strengthen the work on harmful practices in priority areas such as education, health, gender equality and human rights.
2. Maintain a high level of support for the UN’s work to eliminate harmful practices, in the form of both core funding and earmarked funding.
3. Strengthen cooperation with civil society organisations.
4. Initiate dialogue and collaboration with religious leaders and faith-based organisations
5. Safeguard global norms in the UN, including sexual and reproductive health and rights.
6. Base our work on the rights of children and youth and ensure their meaningful involvement.
7. Stand firm by the promise that the rights of women and girls must be fulfilled.
8. Strengthen collaboration with national and regional actors, affected governments and civil society.
9. Contribute to data collection and research in order to strengthen and share the knowledge base for effective approaches.
Norway
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
In addition to Norway's main pledge to combat sexual harassment, Norway will establish a low-threshold system for handling cases. The Equality and Anti-Discrimination Tribunal will be given the authority to handle these cases as of 1 January 2020. The new enforcement system is expected to be more effective than today’s practice, where few cases are brought to courts.
Norway
Gender Equality
The Norwegian Government commits to increase the percentage of its bilateral development assistance that has women’s rights and gender equality as a primary or significant goal from 33% to 50%.
Norway
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Norway’s commitments to women’s rights and gender equality, including sexual and reproductive health and rights and combating Gender Bases Violence (GBV), are set our and institutionalised in several action plans and strategies:
1. The Action Plan for Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Foreign and Development Policy (2016-2020).
2. The Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security (2019-2022).
3. Norway’s International Strategy to Eliminate Harmful Practices (2019-2023).
1. The Action Plan for Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Foreign and Development Policy (2016-2020).
2. The Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security (2019-2022).
3. Norway’s International Strategy to Eliminate Harmful Practices (2019-2023).
Norway
Gender Equality
Education for girls, including secondary education, is a particular priority for Norway. Norway increased its support for girls’ education in 2019. Norway advocates for an integrated approach to ensure that all girls can benefit from an education that is safe, of good quality and that promotes gender equality.
Norway
Comprehensive Sexuality Education
The Norwegian Government supports the inclusion of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in primary and secondary school and the provision of CSE to children and youth who are out of school, as essential elements to achieve universal access to SRHR and to enable young people to take informed decisions about their lives. Norway mainly supports CSE through UNFPA, UNESCO and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
Pakistan
Universal Health Coverage
1. Ensuring universal access to Family Planning and Reproductive Health FP/RH services and commodities while aiming at significantly reducing unmet need and achieving: CPR from 35% (2017) to 50% by 2025 and further raising it to 60% by 2030; and lowering TFR from 3.6 (2017) to 2.8 children per woman by 2025 and 2.2 children per woman by 2030.
1.1. Reducing maternal morbidity and maternal mortality ratio from 170 (2018) to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030.
1.2. Making the right to promotive and primary health care for mother and child mandatory.
1.3. Ensuring implementation of LSBE and Population.
1.1. Reducing maternal morbidity and maternal mortality ratio from 170 (2018) to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030.
1.2. Making the right to promotive and primary health care for mother and child mandatory.
1.3. Ensuring implementation of LSBE and Population.
Pakistan
Other
2. Fulfilling the commitment made at FP2020 for raising per capita expenditure on FP to $2.50 by 2025 from $1.07 in 2018 by:
2.1. Establishing a five-year non-lapsable Population Fund with annual allocation of Rs.10 billion (USD 63.7 million) for FP/RH services.
2.2. Doubling Federal & Provincial Population & Health budgets for FP/RH and ensuring timely releases.
2.3. Strengthen coordination mechanism for donor financing to NGOs and private sector organizations involved in FP/RH.
2.1. Establishing a five-year non-lapsable Population Fund with annual allocation of Rs.10 billion (USD 63.7 million) for FP/RH services.
2.2. Doubling Federal & Provincial Population & Health budgets for FP/RH and ensuring timely releases.
2.3. Strengthen coordination mechanism for donor financing to NGOs and private sector organizations involved in FP/RH.
Pakistan
Gender Equality
3. Harnessing the demographic dividend through investing in women, adolescents’ and youth’s education, employment opportunities and health, including FP/RH services.
3.1. Encouraging involvement of young people while deciding issues relating to their health and well-being.
3.2. Linking population programs with social safety net initiatives like BISP and introduce conditional cash transfer schemes for adoption of FP/RH.
3.1. Encouraging involvement of young people while deciding issues relating to their health and well-being.
3.2. Linking population programs with social safety net initiatives like BISP and introduce conditional cash transfer schemes for adoption of FP/RH.
Pakistan
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
4. Legislate and enforce Early Child Marriage Restraint Acts by Federal & Provincial Governments.
4.1. Reduce the birth rate among adolescents (age 15-19 year) from 46% (2017-18) to 23% by 2030.
4.2. Adopt zero tolerance policy on violence against women and girls.
4.1. Reduce the birth rate among adolescents (age 15-19 year) from 46% (2017-18) to 23% by 2030.
4.2. Adopt zero tolerance policy on violence against women and girls.
Pakistan
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
5. Increasing capacity for emergency preparedness and mainstreaming MISP for RH/FP and prevention of and protection against GBV in emergency
Paraguay
Other
En el 2018 la razón de mortalidad materna (RMM) es de 70,8 por cada 100.000 nacidos vivos. En el marco del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2030 el país se compromete a reducir la RMM al 2023 a 56 y al 2030 a 24 cada 100.000 nacidos vivos.
Paraguay
Other
Para ello, en específico se realizarán los esfuerzos necesarios para ampliar la oferta de métodos anticonceptivos orales combinados,
Paraguay
Other
Mejorar las capacidades técnicas para la respuesta a la emergencias obstétricas, mejorar las capacidades técnicas en la atención prenatal, trabajar en la comunidad en la respuesta para emergencias obstétricas, actualizar e implementar el Plan de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva
Paraguay
Other
Desarrollar los Planes para la reducción del embarazo adolescente no intencionado, aumentar los consultorios de atención integral de adolescentes
Paraguay
Other
Fortalecer los sistemas de vigilancia de la morbimortalidad materna y los registros de muertes en mujeres en edad fértil de 10 a 54 años de edad, aumentar la inversión de manera focalizada en las áreas de mayor mortalidad, fortalecer las Redes Integradas de los Servicios de Salud,
Paraguay
Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Incorporar la educación de la sexualidad en la educación formal y no formal e impulsar programas de prevención para reducir la alta tasa de embarazos en adolescentes.
Paraguay
Other
El compromiso es programático dado que desarrolla una serie de acciones para llegar a la meta validada en instrumentos públicos, es financiero puesto que se destinan recursos y se prevé aumentar la inversión para el logro de la meta propuesta y es político ya que se enmarca en el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2030, en el Plan de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva y en el Plan de Acción Nacional en Población y Desarrollo y de esta forma a los compromisos internacionales asumidos en el Consenso de Montevideo sobre Población y Desarrollo y la Agenda 2030 de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenibles.