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ACCELERATING

THE

PROMISE

The Report on the

Nairobi Summit on

ICPD25

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Authors:

Jennifer Butler, Arthur Erken, Isaac Hurskin, Gretchen Luchsinger (editor), Douglas Passanisi, Ragaa Said and Pio Smith

With contributions from:

Soyol Bayaraa, Teresa Buerkle, Mariarosa Cutillo, Nafissatou Diop, Ann Erb Leoncavello, Usen Esiet,

De Jane Gibbons, Jennie Greaney, Benoit Kalasa, Richard Kolledge, Anneka Knutsson, Mona Moustafa, Mandira Paul,

Klaus Simoni Pederson, Rachel Snow, Lily Tong and Farah Usmani

Design:

Prographics, Inc.

Original artwork for the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 poster:

All photos © UNFPA

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ACCELERATING

THE

PROMISE

Foreword ......................................................................................................... 2

III

The Road to Nairobi ..................................................................................... 4

Fulfilling Our Promises ...............................................................................12

Committed to Change, Accountable for Progress.............................36

A Voice for Everyone .................................................................................42

A Global Call to Action ............................................................................ 48

Annex 1: Nairobi Statement on ICPD25:

Accelerating the Promise .........................................................................54

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FOREWORD

In 2019, all roads led to Nairobi.

Thousands gathered at the Nairobi Summit

on ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise,

and what a celebration it was! Hundreds

of thousands more around the world

marched in solidarity, recommitting to the

extraordinary vision of the Programme

of Action set forth at the International

Conference on Population and Development

in Cairo in 1994 – a vision of full equality

for women and girls, and of sexual and

reproductive health and rights for all.

The world convened in Nairobi around a

central belief that good progress is not

good enough, and that we must accelerate

the promises made in Cairo to girls and

women, boys and men, to everyone.

Achieving the Sustainable Development

Goals depends on it.

Strengthening our societies, growing our

economies and combating climate change

all depend on women and girls taking

control over their bodies, their choices

and their futures. When every woman and

girl lives in full equality, with dignity and

respect, we can end poverty and hunger,

improve health and human well-being,

guarantee quality education, and achieve

peace and prosperity for all.

The urgent message from the Nairobi

Summit is that the world cannot – and must

not – wait another 25 years. UNFPA and

the Governments of Kenya and Denmark

co-convened the Summit with that sense of

urgency in mind. We were pleased to see

the leadership that exists at all levels – from

presidents to the grass roots, from refugees

to royalty, from youth activists to CEOs – to

ensure sexual and reproductive health and

rights for all.

Leaders of countries, communities and

organizations from 163 United Nations

Member States participated with a deep

sense of purpose and hope. Together,

we fashioned the Nairobi Statement and

accompanying Nairobi Commitments, not

to negotiate new documents or language,

but to uphold existing agreements, address

resource gaps, define actionable timelines,

and share and learn from each other.

Partners from the private sector, civil

society, academia and faith-based

organizations brought new ideas and new

resources to make rights and choices a

reality for all. People with disabilities,

indigenous people, people of African

descent, and of sexual diversities turned

out in their numbers, leading, challenging,

inspiring and pushing the agenda forward.

Feminists, who ignited a movement in

Cairo, brought their energy and passion to

Nairobi. Young people raised their collective

voice, declaring their intention to lead the

sexual and reproductive health movement

into a new era, where every girl can fulfil

her dreams.

In the end, the Nairobi Summit was about

action, not talk. We committed to making

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the next decade one of action and results for

women and girls. Sexual and reproductive

health and rights are human rights, and it is

up to all of us to protect and defend them.

Years from now, let it be said that the

Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 sparked the

accelerated action needed to achieve

sexual and reproductive rights and choices

for all. Let it be known that we did the

work, we delivered on our promises, and

we achieved the commitments of the ICPD

Programme of Action and the Sustainable

Development Goals.

The march continues. Our ultimate

destination: full rights and full choices

for all people, everywhere.

Natalia Kanem

United Nations Under-Secretary-General

and Executive Director of UNFPA,

the United Nations Population Fund

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The Road to Nairobi

MANY VOICES, ONE STAND FOR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

There is no turning back on sexual and reproductive health and

rights and choices for all. The march forward must continue, and

it must accelerate, because choosing what happens with one’s

own body and fertility is a fundamental right.

Twenty-five years ago, at the landmark 1994

International Conference on Population

and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt,

the world promised that every woman and

girl would enjoy universal access to sexual

and reproductive health. More do so today

than ever before. Yet millions of women and

girls still die in pregnancy, still cannot get

contraceptives, still get married as children,

still are mutilated and violated – the list of

unfulfilled promises remains very long.

We know we need more action, more

commitment, more investment in a far faster

pace of change. But how? That’s what the

Nairobi Summit to mark the 25th anniversary

of the ICPD set out to answer. Under the

banner of “Accelerating the Promise”, it

took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 12

to 14 November 2019, co-convened

by the Governments of Denmark

and Kenya, and UNFPA.

The culmination of a year-long process to

re-energize people everywhere, the Summit

brought together 8,300 people from 172

countries and territories. They made over 1,250

commitments to action. And with many voices

they spoke as one in standing against decades

of pushback on sexual and reproductive health

and rights, and the equality of women and girls.

The Summit was the first large global meeting

heralding the United Nations Decade of Action

to deliver on the Sustainable Development

Goals, and a lead into the 25th anniversary of

the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women.

As such, the Summit set a high bar – and

pioneered a fresh approach to multilateral

action. Since it was an entirely voluntary

exercise, Governments and others came

because they genuinely wanted to express

their commitments to sexual and reproductive

health and rights. This approach proved highly

successful in persuading a wide variety of

institutions and people across the world to

stake a claim on a new, brighter future, where

promises are kept, not contested.

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In the lead-up to the Nairobi Summit, UNFPA

launched #IMarchFor, a social media

campaign that brought 30,000 people and 15

million followers into a global call for world

leaders to deliver on ICPD promises. In a

striking video at the Summit opening, girls with

artistically painted faces read the 12 global

commitments of the Nairobi Statement.

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

The Governments of Denmark and Kenya

agreed to co-convene the Nairobi Summit

with UNFPA. They brought geopolitical

balance, tremendous experience in

negotiating the Sustainable Development

Goals (SDGs), and strong political will from

their respective Governments to their roles

as co-conveners. Denmark also became the

major donor to the Summit.

In April 2019, UN Member States at the UN

Commission on Population and Development

adopted a Political Declaration calling for the

“full, effective and accelerated implementation

of the ICPD Programme of Action and the

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.

This provided a political impetus for

Governments and all other relevant partners

to come together to commemorate the

adoption of the ICPD Programme of Action,

and celebrate its successes in advancing

rights and choices for all.

The process would galvanize political

and financial momentum, and build and

strengthen partnerships to complete the

unfinished business of the ICPD Programme

of Action, including as an integral part of the

2030 Agenda and its 17 SDGs. Early on, five

themes with global relevance emerged as key

focus areas. They included universal access

to sexual and reproductive health and rights,

financing the sexual and reproductive health

and rights agenda, demographic diversity,

ending gender-based violence and harmful

practices, and sexual and reproductive

health and rights in humanitarian and fragile

contexts. The preparatory process also

pinpointed five other issues to accelerate

progress across all of the themes: gender

equality, youth leadership, political and

community leadership, innovation and data,

and partnerships.

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Three objectives

Three objectives shaped the

process around the Nairobi

Summit, aimed at renewing

momentum to fully achieve the

ICPD and the SDGs by 2030:

1. Obtain political reaffirmation of

the ICPD Programme of Action,

within the context of the

2030 Agenda for Sustainable

Development and the SDGs.

2. Build political and financial

momentum to fulfil the

unfinished business of the ICPD

Programme of Action.

3. Reinvigorate and expand the

community of people necessary

to push forward the ICPD

agenda on all fronts.

A COMMITMENT TO COMMITMENTS

The co-convenors were determined that the

Summit would galvanize new ways of thinking,

new players and new actions. Early on, they

defined it as a platform where Governments,

international and regional organizations and all

sectors of civil society would make concrete

public commitments with a focus on leaving no

one behind. Ambitious political, programmatic

and financial commitments would showcase

leadership, make the case for scaled-up

investment, and move the world towards

achieving sexual and reproductive health and

rights for all.

To keep commitments relevant and meaningful,

and aligned to the extent possible to shared

global aims, an International Steering

Committee guided the development of an

overarching framework. The process drew on

six months of consultations with UN Member

States, civil society organizations, youth

networks, people living with disabilities, the

faith-based community, the private sector,

foundations, academics and more. Together,

they defined the magnitude of the unfinished

business of the ICPD, and pinpointed areas

where progress is most urgent.

The result was the “Nairobi Statement on

ICPD25 – Accelerating the Promise”. Framed

around the five themes of the Summit, it

contains 12 global commitments that served as

a point of departure for all other commitments

made at the Summit.

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Aimed at delivering benefits to women and

girls, their families and societies at large, the

Statement as a whole reflects the inextricable

links between women’s and girls’ empowerment,

sexual and reproductive health and rights, and

sustainable development.

The 12 global commitments highlight three

zeros – the end to preventable maternal

mortality, unmet need for contraceptives,

and gender-based violence and harmful

practices. They spotlight urgent issues such as

greater domestic and international financing,

bringing young people into all decision-

making that affects them, developing quality

and disaggregated data, and ensuring that

sexual and reproductive health information

and services reach people in crisis. As a

non-binding instrument, the Statement as a

whole allows different countries and other

actors to pursue concerns most important to

them, including new imperatives arising since

the ICPD, such as the global goal to achieve

universal health coverage.

RADICAL INCLUSION

No one has paid as great a price for unfulfilled

promises as women and young people. Their

voices too often go unheard. Their issues are

ignored, and their rights and choices denied.

Summit organizers decided that it was time to

overturn this discrimination and exclusion, and

aim for radical inclusion. That meant explicitly

ensuring that the Summit and the entire

process leading up to it would aim for human

diversity in every respect.

At the Summit, community leaders sat

side by side with national ministers. Youth

activists dialogued with CEOs of multinational

corporations. Indigenous women interacted

with academics. Debates were not constrained

by the politics of position or gender or age,

but embraced the power of open exchanges

of wide-ranging experiences and ideas.

Consequently, discussions were much richer,

and commitments deeper. A highly interactive

format, developed by an International

Programme Committee, provided ample space

for diverse participants to reflect together

on opportunities, challenges and collective

actions.

As a result, a new, broad coalition was

formed. It is a coalition of the informed and

committed, the bold and the brave. Everyone

in it knows the stakes are high, but also that

the solutions are at hand.

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A GLOBAL ROAD TO NAIROBI

To guide an extensive year-long build-up to the

Summit, a global road map identified major

events in every part of the world that could

propel political momentum behind Summit

objectives and reinvigorate the movement

to finish the ICPD’s unfinished business. A

global reflection took off, unprecedented in its

scope and scale, on where progress had been

made, who was being left behind, which key

issues and commitments to bring to Nairobi,

and how to sustain energy, partnerships and

commitments right through to 2030 and the

Decade of Action, for everyone, whether they

came to Nairobi or not.

Talks about the Summit featured at the

Commission on Population and Development,

the United Nations High-level Political Forum

on Sustainable Development and the United

Nations General Assembly, as well as in the

Group of Seven (G7) and Group of 20 (G20)

summits, and at major international gatherings

on humanitarian action, South-South

cooperation and more. Regional road maps

played major roles in propelling interest. And

in practically every country, multistakeholder

processes and consultations were initiated to

identify the unfinished agenda and formulate

concrete national commitments.

THE ROAD TO NAIROBI

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THE ROAD TO NAIROBI FOR YOUNG

PEOPLE AND CIVIL SOCIETY

Young people and civil society mobilized

around the Nairobi Summit throughout

2019, from the local to the global level. They

discussed progress since the ICPD, and

the challenges and possibilities ahead, and

provided direct inputs into Summit planning

and outcomes. The road to Nairobi became

a chance for many to prepare themselves to

assume the mantle of new leadership from

Nairobi to 2030 and beyond.

More than 80 youth-led and youth-

serving partner organizations contributed

to developing the Summit programme

and global, regional, national and local

commitments. Civil society more broadly saw

the Summit as a chance to re-energize the

ICPD movement, strengthen commitments

to rights and choices for all, and broaden

coalitions with other partners and

constituencies. Understanding the power

and importance of Cairo, they wanted to

be a part of Nairobi.

The Summit process provided an opportunity

for meaningful participation between activists

of different generations working on a variety

of issues. It catalysed collaboration and

action, and articulated the ICPD agenda’s

relevance today. Crucially, young people and

non-governmental organizations played a

pivotal role in both the International Steering

Committee and the International Programme

Committee.

A UNFPA scholarship allowed

Emy Hetari, 29, to come to

the Summit from Yemen,

accompanied by her mother.

She performed a song about

adolescent girls caught in a

humanitarian nightmare.

SCHOLARSHIPS BRING LOCAL

COMMUNITIES ON BOARD

From the outset, every effort was made to

ensure that people from smaller communities

were present in large numbers, bringing to

the discussions their diverse perspectives

and lived experiences. UNFPA and its

partners provided scholarships for more

than 2,000 young people, women from

grass-roots organizations, traditional leaders,

LGBTQI populations, people living with

HIV, people living with disabilities, people

of African descent, indigenous people and

community-led organizations. Their road to

Nairobi included training, toolkits, workshops

and consultations, which assisted them in

developing their own commitments and

making the most of their

participation at the Summit.

The Youth Engagement

Toolkit helped youth

prepare to make their

voices heard.

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THE #IMARCHFOR CAMPAIGN...

TELL US WHY YOU MARCH!

Not everyone physically came to Nairobi, but

they all marched to Nairobi. The #IMarchFor

campaign brought together champions of

sexual and reproductive rights, gender equality

and women’s empowerment from all over the

world. They shared personal messages on why

the Nairobi Summit mattered to them and

turned the Summit into a movement.

Tens of thousands of individuals and

institutions participated, with the #IMarchFor

hashtag generating around 30,000 posts

reaching over 15 million followers. They

marched for their personal commitment to

rights and choices for all. They marched for

survivors of female genital mutilation, and for

women and girls affected by humanitarian

crisis. They marched for access to menstrual

hygiene products, mental health, quality

education, dignity, freedom from violence and

discrimination, and achieving the three zeros.

WHAT’S CHANGED? THOUGHT

LEADERSHIP CONVERSATIONS ON ICPD

A highly popular series of global, regional

and national conversations, online and in

person, posed the provocative question:

What’s Changed? They brought together

thought leaders, experts and community

voices to reflect upon progress since Cairo and

stimulate new thinking, ideas and solutions to

complete the unfinished business of the ICPD

Programme of Action. The conversations took

up the rights of young people and adolescents,

advances in reproductive technology, family

planning, low fertility, demographic shifts such

as ageing societies, sexual and reproductive

health and rights of people living with

disabilities, and many other critical concerns.

The first What’s Changed? conversation

brought together thought leaders to debate

what’s next in achieving the ICPD agenda.

to be

loved,

to be

wanted

and to be

respected

In Afghanistan, a young woman affirmed her

priorities as part of the #IMarchFor campaign.

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Summit co-convenors, the Governments of Denmark and Kenya

as well as UNFPA, and partners celebrated the close of an early round

of vibrant exchanges at “Join us on the Road to Nairobi”, a high-level

side event at the 74th General Assembly of the United Nations.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE, PARTNERS

REACH THE WORLD

An unusually broad spectrum of public and

private partners had visible roles all along the

road to the Summit, joining cross-regional

alliances and partnerships to gain traction on

the three zeros and put forward innovative

solutions to bottlenecks. A UNFPA-led costing

exercise provided technical and financial tools

to take the sexual and reproductive health and

rights agenda to scale.

The Government of Denmark provided

the bulk of the financial resources needed.

Additional financial support also came from

the Governments of Australia, Canada,

Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,

Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, the

Republic of Korea, Sweden and Switzerland.

Kenya provided significant in-kind support.

Support also came from private sector

partners. They included, Bayer, the Ford

Foundation, Global Citizen, Kenya Airways,

Special Olympics, the UN Office for

Partnerships and YMCA Africa. They made

financial commitments and/or in-kind

contributions.

When it was finally time for the Summit

to begin, the Burundian delegation

impressed other participants by

arriving in ICPD-branded attire.

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II:

Fulfilling Our Promises

READY FOR THE FUTURE, STARTING NOW

The Nairobi Summit began with a welcoming ceremony where

more than 8,300 participants took a journey from Cairo to Nairobi

to the world of 2030 and the achievement of the Sustainable

Development Goals. The ceremony set forth a forward-looking

vision to guide commitments for finally achieving all parts of the

ICPD Programme of Action.

Guests took their seats in the main hall

of the Kenyatta International Convention

Centre to the inspiring sounds of performers

from around the world, including traditional

dancers from Kiribati, the African regional

youth network and renowned singer Kaliya

from Kazakhstan. The percussive beats of

the Kibera Slum Drummers marked the

formal start of the ceremony, followed by

a compilation of #IMarchFor campaign

videos to showcase the journey to Nairobi.

A highlight was the flash mob performance

of adolescent girls presenting the 12 global

commitments of the Nairobi Statement, and

urging the audience to fulfil ICPD promises

because their future depends on it.

The Summit was officially opened by the three

co-convenors, the Governments of Denmark

and Kenya as well as UNFPA. Opening

remarks were delivered by His Excellency

President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Minister

for Development Cooperation of Denmark

Rasmus Prehn, Her Royal Highness Crown

Princess Mary of Denmark, Deputy Secretary-

General of the United Nations Amina

Mohammed and UNFPA Executive Director

Dr. Natalia Kanem.

The Kibera Slum

Drummers set the

beat for co-

conveners to open

the Summit.

At the opening ceremony, adolescent

girl champions of Nairobi Statement

commitments performed Katy Perry’s

“Roar”, a rallying cry for the rights and

leadership of girls worldwide.

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The co-covenors formally launched the Summit, including (from

left) Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Patron

of UNFPA; Rasmus Prehn, Minister for Development Cooperation

of Denmark; His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta of the

Republic of Kenya; United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina

Mohammed; and UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem.

“Women are the backbone

of the family and, indeed,

the bedrock of a nation…

Empowering women

essentially empowers all our

families, it empowers our

societies, it empowers our

nations, and it empowers

the world.”

—His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta,

President of the Republic

of Kenya

“Women and girls are the true

owners of their own bodies,

and reaching SDG 5 is the key

to reaching the other SDGs... We

can only be here in 2030 if we

are celebrating the finished

unfinished business... Let

us march and unite in this

moment of solidarity across

the globe so women can make

informed choices.”

—His Excellency Rasmus Prehn,

Minister for Development

Cooperation, Denmark

“The Sustainable Development

Goals cannot, and will not, be

achieved until women, girls

and young people are able to

control their bodies and their

lives, and live a life free from

fear and from violence.”

—Dr. Amina Mohammad,

Deputy Secretary-General,

United Nations

“It is important to better

understand the underlying

societal complexities and

structures that fail to respect

women’s physical integrity so

that we can bridge the gaps!”

—Her Royal Highness Crown

Princess Mary of Denmark,

Patron of UNFPA

“The reproductive rights of

women and girls are not up

for negotiation and we shall

protect and uphold them!

We will do it because the

Sustainable Development Goals

depend upon it. We will do it

because we cannot hope to

end poverty and achieve peace

and prosperity until every

woman and girl can live in

full equality, with dignity and

respect. We will do it because

strengthening our societies,

growing our economies, and

importantly, combating

climate change – all depend

upon women and girls taking

control over their bodies, their

choices, and their futures.”

—Dr. Natalia Kanem,

Under-Secretary-General,

Executive Director, UNFPA

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African legend Youssou N’Dour

roused the audience with songs

of hope and renewed ambition.

CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE

ACROSS GENERATIONS

In opening plenary sessions, four champions of

the ICPD agenda came together to discuss rights

and choices for all on the road from Cairo to Nairobi.

Renowned women’s rights activist Gita Sen,

Director of the Ramalingaswami Centre on

Equity and Social Determinants of Health

at the Public Health Foundation of India, set

the stage by emphasizing the centrality of

human rights to achieve equality and leave

no one behind. Noting that young people

view their lives comprehensively – the same

young people who march for climate change

are mobilizing to claim their sexual and

reproductive health and rights – Sen called for

transferring the baton held by the women who

went to Cairo to the young women and girls in

the room and everywhere else.

Melinda Gates, Co-founder of the Bill &

Melinda Gates Foundation, spoke of how

25 years ago, the ICPD put women at the

centre of the agenda. Now it is time to

listen to young people and put girls at the

centre. She highlighted the transformative

power of FP2020, pointing out that with

53 million more women and girls obtaining

contraceptives since 2012, universal coverage

of contraceptives is achievable.

As a voice of the new ICPD generation,

Neil Fidelle Lombao, She Decides 25x25

Champion and Chairperson of the UN Youth

Advisory Board Philippines, mapped a vision

for the future fully grounded in human rights,

equity, equality and action. Dr. Lina Abirafeh,

Executive Director of the Arab Institute for

Women at the Lebanese American University,

urged strengthening the women’s movement

and broadening its engagement with other

movements, and outlined what it will take for

women to feel safe.

“Contraceptives are one of the

most powerful tools we have, to

put the power in the hands of

young girls and women to plan

their families, and quite honestly

to plan their futures.”

—Melinda Gates, Co-founder,

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Economist Gita Sen (left) and

philanthropist Melinda Gates (right)

stressed engaging with young people.

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Five Themes. Three Zeros.

Many lives.

ICPD

THE PROGRAMME

Both broad and deep, the programme of the Nairobi Summit inspired one of the most

diverse international gatherings ever. Together, in nearly 150 sessions with over 700

speakers, a chorus of voices debated how we implement the ICPD commitments, for

everyone, for our shared future.

Their perspectives were many, a rich offering.

But their transformative goals were the same.

Three zeros. Zero preventable maternal

mortality. Zero unmet need for family

planning. Zero gender-based violence and

harmful practices.

Each day 810 women die giving birth.

Over 232 million women want to delay or

prevent pregnancy but have no effective

contraception. Millions of women and girls

suffer unspeakable violence, from intimate

partner violence to sexual assault to female

genital mutilation, and the physical and

psychological trauma of early child marriage.

To address the three zeros and the broader

ICPD agenda, the Summit focused on the

five themes defined in the preparations as

powerful accelerators of progress on all of

these issues: universal access to sexual and

reproductive health and rights, financing the

sexual and reproductive health and rights

agenda, demographic diversity, ending

gender-based violence and harmful practices,

and sexual and reproductive health and rights

in humanitarian and fragile contexts.

Discussions at the Summit highlighted the

power of gender equality and women’s

leadership, youth leadership, political and

community leadership, innovation and data,

and partnerships to accelerate change.

The Summit programme was structured

around signature sessions held in plenary

with expert panellists addressing key

solutions, impacts and data analysis. Open

dialogue sessions encouraged audience

discussion and debate, challenging the

status quo and advancing advocacy and

action. Concurrent sessions put a focus on

community-led approaches, concretely drilling

down into specific solutions. The interactive

Pamoja Zone inspired networking, the sharing

of innovations, and exploration of initiatives by

communities, young people and partners.

“We should create a world where

everybody, women, young men,

LGBTI, persons with disabilities, and

all marginalized sectors should

have the power to decide about

their own bodies, their lives and

their futures without question.”

—Neil Fidelle Lombao,

She Decides 25x25 Champion

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THEME 1

Universal access to sexual and

reproductive health and rights as a

part of universal health coverage

We changed the conversation!

At the Nairobi Summit, enthusiasm for a

“next generation” conversation on sexual and

reproductive health and rights reached an all-time

high. Consensus was strong. We need bolder

demands to realize sexual and reproductive

health and rights. We need scaled-up investments

aimed at universal access to care, bolstering

health systems but also going beyond them.

We must achieve equality, quality, affordability,

acceptability and accountability – for everyone.

Fatma Bulic, a member of the Information Centre for Persons with

Disabilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, spoke about ending gender-based

violence, an essential sexual and reproductive health intervention.

“

All too often,

the stigma and taboo surrounding sex,

menstrual health and reproductive health prevent

individuals and communities from talking

about issues

crucial to empowering women to

make decisions over their own bodies.

”

—Folly Bah Thibault,

Journalist and Broadcaster

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Participants from Governments, civil society

and academia agreed: An essential and

comprehensive package of sexual and

reproductive health and rights interventions

is the basis for transformative change.

Required for the full implementation of the

ICPD Programme of Action, universal health

coverage and the SDGs, the package needs to

be progressively realized in rolling out national

universal health coverage plans.

For most countries, a comprehensive

approach to sexual and reproductive

health and rights is cost-effective and

affordable. Domestic resource mobilization

must increase to sustain gains and unlock

additional investments. Proven partnerships

must be strengthened, and new forms of

collaboration established, including between

the public and private sector and with non-

traditional partners. Together, they can work

towards making comprehensive sexual and

reproductive health and rights integral to

universal health coverage benefits, financing

and protection schemes to prevent financial

hardship. An imperative element is adolescent

sexual and reproductive health services.

“

Stop leaving young women

and girls behind;

they die

because we don’t want to talk

about sexuality education

and safe abortions.

”

—Mamello Makhele,

Young midwife and founder of

MobiHope in Lesotho

The call to redress inequalities was loud

and clear – and came from all directions.

We heard from people of African descent,

indigenous communities, people living with

disabilities, young sex workers, women in

humanitarian settings, LGBTQI communities,

people living in urban slums and young people

in rural and remote communities. Leaving no

one behind requires systematic actions that

put people at the centre. Gender equality,

youth leadership, political and community

leadership, innovation and data, and strategic

partnerships can all help accelerate the

progressive attainment of universal sexual and

reproductive health and rights.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Universal health coverage requires

comprehensive approach

sexual and reproductive health

and rights, across the lifecycle,

and embedded in national plans.

Focused, rights-based interventions

must meet the needs of all groups,

including those most marginalized

and underserved.

• Government partners, representatives of

civil society and academia all agreed:

the

essential package of sexual and reproductive

health and rights interventions

is the basis

for transformative change. It is imperative to

complete the ICPD Programme and achieve

the SDGs, and should be progressively realized

in both new and existing universal health

coverage plans.

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Safe pregnancy and childbirth are about

survival, but also about thriving, where the

health and well-being of women and girls

is the goal. Getting to zero preventable

maternal mortality requires strong health

system capacity, innovation, equity and

accountability, and partnership and

coordination. All actors must commit

to providing quality and respectful

maternal and newborn care at

a national scale, including by

connecting referral and primary

health facilities. Properly

trained, equipped and

regulated, midwives can

provide 87 per cent of the

essential care women and

newborns need.

Towards reaching zero unmet

need for contraception,

discussions emphasized

realizing rights, extending access

to services, training health-care

providers and improving quality

Counselling

and services

for modern

contraceptives

The essential package of sexual and

reproductive health interventions is part

of a comprehensive life course approach

to realizing rights and choices for all.

Prevention and

treatment of HIV

and other sexually

transmitted infections

Safe abortion

services and

treatment of

unsafe abortion

Detecting and

preventing

sexual and

gender-based

violence

OUN

ABI

Comprehensive

sexuality education

Antenatal,

childbirth and

postnatal care

Counselling and

services for

sexual health

and well-being

Detecting, preventing

and managing

reproductive cancers

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Investment must

go beyond the

health system.

It should back

interventions

centred on people

and integrating the

multiple issues

they face.

•

Not negotiable:

women’s

•

Successful investment

and girls’ rights to health

care, bodily autonomy

and integrity!

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Complex issues demand

ambitious solutions,

with a central place for

community involvement

to define how best to

meet local needs.

the health workforce,

particularly midwives,

requires tackling imbalanced

gender and power dynamics

in health systems.

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Access to safe

abortion

is essential

to sexual and reproductive

health and rights.

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QUIT

Counselling

and services

for infertility

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of care. Other prominent issues encompassed

access to accurate information, and creating

awareness and generating demand, with

strong potential to harness innovation, especially

digital tools. In making sure that contraceptive

commodities reach users, essentials include

preventing stock-outs, improving supply

chains and expanding choices of modern

methods. Family planning should be better

integrated into maternal care, primary health

care and HIV services, and, as a matter of

urgency, reach groups left behind, particularly

youth and adolescents, people with disabilities,

migrants and refugees, and people living

in humanitarian settings. Improved data

would allow better evaluation of whether

family planning reaches marginalized groups.

Both domestic and international financing

remain critical for sustaining family planning,

alongside strong accountability mechanisms

and enabling legislation and policies.

Universal access to sexual and reproductive

health means for everyone. That includes

men, young men and boys. Many lessons

have been learned, including in HIV

programmes, about the consequences of

restrictive gender norms, violence, stigma,

discrimination, lack of information and

lack of access to services. Rates of HIV are

increasing, for instance, in some LGBTQI

communities, and among men who have

sex with men who are married to women.

A lack of access to information and services

for men and young men results in high

rates of untreated sexually transmitted

infections, gender-based violence and

adolescent boys becoming fathers. The gap

hampers important efforts to increase men’s

responsibility for using contraception.

With India exploring universal health coverage, Debasree Chaudhuri, Minister

of State for Woman and Child Development, attended the Summit, joined in

one session by the then UNFPA Deputy Executive Director, Laura Londén.

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Comprehensive

•

Young people

can face multiple,

•

A frank new conversation

sexuality

education

must

reach every young

person, including

through technology,

and emphasize

transforming

discriminatory

gender norms.

intersecting obstacles to

sexual and reproductive health

information and services. These

are related to age as well as

disabilities, gender diversity,

sexual orientation and ethnicity,

among others. They must be

part of designing and driving

their own solutions.

emerged around

menstrual hygiene,

driven

by emerging champions

of innovations such as

new designs for period

underwear, menstruation

tracking apps and

machines dispensing

organic period products.

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Youth have a right to contraception too

A recurring and critical issue was the urgency of meeting young

people’s need for contraception, as an integral part of adolescent

sexual and reproductive health and rights. Participants, including many

youth, stressed that progress must be co-led with youth. Policies and

laws should ensure that young people universally can access good

quality, integrated and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health

information and services, along with comprehensive sexuality education.

Much more could be done to build the capacity and commitment of

health providers to deliver information and services that meet the

specific needs of adolescents and youth. Different sectors will need to

work together to reach everyone and link the multiple issues at stake.

To keep the momentum going, the Youth Coalition for Sexual and

Reproductive Rights launched a short guide: Calling for Action on Young

People’s Need for Contraception. Find out more at:

unfpa.org/resources/

calling-action-young-peoples-need-contraception-guide-youth-advocates.

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It’s time for more

investment in the

sexual and reproductive

health and rights of

men and boys,

targeting

institutions, communities

and individuals.

•

We should increase

•

advocacy and services

emphasizing

men’s

responsibility for

contraception.

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Reformulated

strategies

should improve

LGBTQI

access to

services, sexual

and reproductive

health education,

and the protection

of their rights.

•

Stepped up efforts to

collect and analyse

disaggregated data

should cover the national

and subnational levels,

and the parameters of

age, sex, wealth, ethnicity,

migration status,

disability and parity.

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THEME 2

Financing to finish the ICPD

Programme of Action and to

sustain the gains made

We know what we need to invest:

let’s get the job done!

A combination of decisions, actions and

funding will determine whether or not we

meet the three zeros and live up to the

promise of the ICPD and the SDGs. It is

truly a defining moment. For achieving

the first time, we know the for achieving

the zeros. New research presented at

the Summit went beyond calculating

costs. By identifying priority

interventions, it set the stage for next

steps, including country investment cases.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

•

Journalist Folly Bah Thibault (bottom left) moderated

talks on the power of creative industries to achieve

rights and choices for all, featuring supermodel

philanthropists Natalia Vodianova (top left), Anja

Rubik (bottom right) and Maria Borges (top right).

How do we achieve

the three zeros?

Fill

resource gaps faster.

And step up political

commitment.

•

As the most sustainable source of investment,

domestic

resources

can drive transformative results. The three zeros

need to be incorporated in public budgets and development

cooperation, at the national and local levels.

•

Clear

financial accountability

guides the best possible use

of available resources.

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“

The ICPD plan of action and

its focus on women’s and

girls’ empowerment is the

foundation of human capital

formation and a key priority

for both the Global Financing

Facility and the World Bank

Health team.”

—Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate,

Global Director, Health, Nutrition and

Population Global Practice, World Bank

Getting to zero is firmly grounded in

recognizing and respecting the human rights

of all women, girls, men and boys. Incalculable

harm results when a child grows up without its

mother or a young girl suffers female genital

mutilation. The emotional, social and economic

toll may last a lifetime – and never be fully

grasped. Yet we can calculate the economic

benefits of, for instance, ensuring that all

women can freely plan and space pregnancies,

and that girls can complete their schooling

and find decent work instead of getting married

as children. Over time, these benefits far exceed

investments made in achieving the three zeros.

Completing the unfinished business of the ICPD

Programme of Action is a complex task, but a feasible

one. New and reinvigorated partnerships, at all levels,

from the global to the local, must take up the call for

investment that is strategic and, by linking different

sectors, effective, with a broad reach. A combination

of smart domestic investment and international

support, framed by committed partnerships, will be

critical to delivering for women and girls.

The amount of official development assistance going

towards sexual and reproductive health and rights is

declining. A transition to domestic resources needs

to be managed to protect gains made, and attract

and make the best use of all possible financing flows.

Countries need to deliberately prioritize health, and

especially sexual and reproductive health and rights.

UNFPA, in partnership with Johns Hopkins

University, the University of Washington, Victoria

University and Avenir Health, costed the estimated

global resource needs to achieve the three

transformative results – the three zeros – by 2030.

Knowing the global price tag provides the foundation

for developing country-level investment cases to

support national priorities.

•

Sexual and reproductive

health and rights need

to be

systematically

integrated

in primary

health care and universal

health coverage, in benefit

packages as well as modes

of financing.

•

Government leadership is critical in

partnerships with the

private sector

including to invest in women’s

inclusion, economic empowerment

and health.

•

Political impetus and

adequate budgetary

allocations must stand

behind meaningful efforts

to uphold the sexual health

and rights of

adolescents

and youth.

•

Investing resources in coordination

in cities

means investing in

innovation and sustainability, and

effective targeting of services to

local needs.

•

Small local

entrepreneurs

can play

critical roles in providing

health services; their

successes should be

scaled up more broadly.

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RUNNING THE NUMBERS TO GET TO

ZERO

Costs from 2020 to 2030 in total

$115.5 billion

in 120 priority countries.

$68.5 billion

in 120 priority countries.

$2.4 billion

to end female genital mutilation

in 31 countries. $35 billion to end child marriage

in 68 countries. $42 billion to end gender-based

violence in 132 priority countries.

ZERO

PREVENTABLE MATERNAL DEATHS

ZERO

UNMET NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING

ZERO

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

AND HARMFUL PRACTICES

AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

WHERE’S THE FINANCING GAP?

The largest financing gaps are in some of the countries that are the least able to address this need

through domestic spending.

THE SPENDING GAP FOR MATERNAL HEALTH

1.35% 1.35%

3.7%

THE SPENDING GAP FOR FAMILY PLANNING

1.4%

3.8%

4.5%

4.9%

7.9%

65.3%

16.7%

50.3%

27.1%

CENTRAL EUROPE,

EASTERN EUROPE

& CENTRAL ASIA

HIGH-INCOME

NORTH AFRICA &

THE MIDDLE EAST

LATIN AMERICA &

THE CARIBBEAN

SOUTH ASIA

SOUTH-EAST ASIA,

EAST ASIA

& OCEANIA

SUB-SAHARAN

AFRICA

Note:

by Global Burden of Disease super-region, 2020−2030.

Source:

Costing the Three Transformative Results,

2020, Johns Hopkins University, Avenir Health, Victoria University, Institute of Health,

Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, and UNFPA.

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New

financial

engineering

methods

ensure that private

sector resources support

efficient,

scaled-up

investments in sustainable

development.

•

We need

more innovation,

including in financial technology ,

to replicate small but promising successes and achieve more

broadly effective solutions to development problems. Women

are generators of innovation who deserve more support!

•

South-South and triangular cooperation

can deliver many

benefits; countries in the global South should take the lead.

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The global community needs to provide

technical support to make the investment

case and increase fiscal space, realize

spending efficiencies and achieve quality

public expenditures on health. It must

also support protections for sexual and

reproductive health services in a time of fiscal

austerity. Urgent priorities include delivering

essential sexual and reproductive health

services within universal health coverage,

and reaching populations being left behind.

Countries must also work towards a more

sophisticated integration of services, a greater

focus on quality care, and foresighted links to

major determinants of health such as climate

change and gender equality.

In scaling up financing, public-public and

public-private partnerships have critical

roles. So do parliamentarians in steering

adequate domestic financing into sexual

and reproductive health and universal

health coverage. Additional partnerships

and alliances need to be nurtured with

academia, young people and civil society,

aimed at extending monitoring as well as

social vigilance to uphold accountability for

domestic financing. Amid vibrant discussions

on leveraging the reach, ingenuity and

financial power of the private sector, leading

corporations and philanthropies, including BD,

Philips, MSD for Mothers, Johnson & Johnson,

the Ford Foundation, Laerdal Global Health

and the Maternity Foundation, committed at

the Summit to mobilizing some $8 billion in

new pledges.

Government representatives also stressed

institutionalizing South-South and

triangular partnerships as mechanisms

for policy dialogue, technical cooperation,

and the sharing of innovative approaches

contextualized to local situations. There

was a call for countries of the South to

increase financial resources to scale up such

mechanisms.

“HUMAN

RIGHTS demand

accountability

…and we need to focus on

the unfinished agenda of ICPD. The current situation

is not inevitable, but the result of policy choices.

Governments need to be held accountable for

making

better CHOICES.”

—Michelle Bachelet,

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

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THEME 3

Drawing on demographic

diversity to drive economic growth

and achieve sustainable development

Investing in people:

it’s the right thing

to do and it pays a big dividend!

We live in a unique demographic moment. Some

countries are grappling with ageing and low fertility,

others with high fertility. Many are experiencing

a prominent youth bulge. The Nairobi Summit

explored this demographic diversity and how it

could drive sustainable development, including

through investments in health and education.

Packed sessions had an air of expectation and

shared understanding of the seriousness of issues

such as employment, urbanization, migration,

ethnicity and climate change. Understanding the

opportunities and challenges of demographic

diversity, and the political, economic, social, and

peace and security consequences, is fundamentally

important to all countries.

The Summit's celebration of diverse cultures

and identities was key to the inclusion of all.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

•

At all stages of the demographic transition,

human capital investment is among the

most critical drivers of demographic

dividends. This will demand

an education

revolution

in some of the poorest

countries, and extends to more lifelong

learning in older, wealthier populations.

•

All stages of demographic

transition and sustainable

development depend on

gender

equality.

LET’S BE CLEAR:

There are NO short cuts.

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Demographic transitions are time-bound.

Reaping a demographic dividend from

them requires making decisions based on

sound projections. Governments from the

global South and North shared lessons

and current challenges in responding to

demographic change. Investment in education

and employment for young people to

expand opportunities at home and provide

alternatives to outmigration came up again

and again. With 1.8 billion young people, the

world cannot wait to act.

Another prominent concern was gender

equality. To realize demographic dividends,

women need decent work and the ability to

realize their reproductive rights and choices.

The consequences of gender inequality are

palpable in preparing for an older world, with

older women left more vulnerable to poverty

for reasons ranging from the lack of access

to land titles to low lifelong earnings. Older

persons in general are more vulnerable to

extreme climate events and humanitarian

crises, areas that demand far more attention.

Since Cairo, the data revolution has

transformed the possibilities for tracking

development inequalities among different

population groups. It offers extraordinary

potential to count everyone in achieving

universal access to sexual and reproductive

health and rights, and to hold leaders

accountable for local and national

development. Debate took off on the policy

potential of new geospatial data, the need

for decentralized data, and the challenges of

protecting privacy so that democratizing data

is a public good and not used against people

and communities.

Amid the fastest ever rates of urbanization,

how we harness the power of cities will

define hopes for achieving the ICPD agenda.

Decentralized governance, economic and

health systems have made some cities

engines of innovation and inclusion. Cities

are also stepping forward to offer safe spaces

for women, and safe havens for minorities,

immigrants and refugees. There is a huge

opportunity to integrate the sexual and

reproductive health agenda within SDG 11 on

sustainable urbanization.

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Mayors mobilizing

behind the ICPD

agenda

are pioneering

inclusive cities friendly

to youth, women, older

people and minorities.

Cities offer bountiful

opportunities to advance

family planning coverage

and other essential

sexual and reproductive

health services given

high population

density and geographic

concentration of

demand.

•

Governments see

enormous potential

in using

new geo-

referenced data

optimize the locations of

public services and reach

those left behind. Towards

that end, however, national

statistics offices need more

skills related to technology,

legal systems and the policy

dimensions of population

data and privacy.

•

The

UNFPA Population Data

Thematic Fund,

launched at

the Summit, will stimulate

more investment in geo-

referenced population

data, particularly as part

of conducting censuses.

The Digital Earth Africa

programme, the GRID3

partnership for geospatial

data and similar efforts

warrant expansion.

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Climate change, adaptation and justice are

central concerns of our time. No person,

community, town, city, country or region will

be spared the impacts of climate change.

Populations will be forced to move. Economies

and demographic dividends may contract.

While climate change affects everyone, it

disproportionately affects countries and

populations in the global South, as well as

vulnerable and marginalized groups, despite

their minimal contributions to greenhouse

gas emissions.

Globally, the climate crisis dramatizes climate

injustice on an entirely new scale. Small island

developing states, often having just ascended

to the status of middle-income countries,

see a future of being swept into the sea. Yet

they are told they are too “rich” to qualify for

international aid by wealthy countries whose

consumption habits have caused climate

change.

An urbanizing world poses challenges and opens opportunities for progress:

MANILA, PHILIPPINES

1975

2010

Source:

German

Remote Sensing Data

Center and German

Aerospace Center.

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COMPREHENSIVE POLICIES SHOULD

•

More qualitative and quantitative

UNDERPIN THE RIGHTS OF OLDER

PERSONS AND HELP PREPARE FOR

AN AGEING WORLD.

Yet global data on

older persons are limited, especially

where ageing is a recent trend. Poverty,

discrimination and violence affecting

older persons, especially older women,

are seriously understudied.

research on older persons is urgently

needed to understand how to address

their needs, but also how they may

be involved in perpetuating harmful

norms. Experiments with wide-ranging

long-term care options deserve global

evaluation to learn key lessons.

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Young people made powerful appeals for

solutions driven by and for young people,

women and girls, indigenous communities

and other marginalized populations.

Empowering young people as leaders and

active partners on climate change is an issue

of justice now – and intergenerational equity

over time.

Climate justice leaves no one behind

Speakers from small island developing states repeatedly drew attention to climate

justice, leaving no one behind. They live with the daily reality of acute vulnerability

to climate change, even as they have contributed relatively little to greenhouse gas

emissions. His Excellency Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda,

emphasized that climate justice is a global challenge. His Excellency Paul Adams,

Minister of Health of the Seychelles, stressed that climate adaptation includes resilient

health systems, empowering women and girls, and scaling up opportunities for

youth. Coming from Micronesia, youth activist Yolanda Mori highlighted community

adaptation as a process grounded in participation. Indigenous peoples, youth,

women, civil society, community-based organizations and grass-roots movements

are all critical voices in decision-making. From another perspective, His Excellency

Dag-Inge Ulstein, Minister of International Development of Norway, described how

forest and land management projects must incorporate gender, women’s health and

empowerment, and investments in sexual and reproductive health and rights. All of

these elements are fundamental to resilience and conservation.

•

On the front lines

of climate action,

small island

developing states

are galvanizing

progress on behalf

of the most affected

regions. They must

not be left alone to

cope with climate

fallout.

•

Young people

are taking

on greater leadership

on climate change –

as is their right. Their

involvement is crucial

for the success of the

Paris climate change

agreement and the SDGs.

•

ndigenous

peoples

have

a role in climate

solutions linked

to their deep

understanding of

the natural world.

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THEME 4

Ending gender-based violence

and harmful practices

Getting to zero:

Everyone plays a part!

The goal is zero. No one in the world

should suffer from gender-based violence

or harmful practices. Getting to zero by

2030 requires all Governments to enact

and implement laws and policies, and

provide quality prevention, protection

and care services. Grounded foremost in

human rights, the measures must aim for

transformation. That means eliminating

gender inequalities and discriminatory

social norms, significantly advancing the

empowerment and agency of women

and girls, reaching all communities

and across societies, and building in

accountability and quality assurance.

US scholar Michele Bratcher Goodwin (left), UN High

Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet (centre)

and Yazidi gynaecologist Dr. Nagham Nazwat Hasan stressed

transformative strategies to end gender-based violence.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

•

No sexual and

•

We must accelerate

•

Top priorities for

ALL COUNTRIES:

ending harmful practices

such as gender

discriminatory sex

selection, child and forced

marriage, and female

genital mutilation.

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reproductive rights

means no gender

equality.

Women must

action on

have choice and

agency to demand

their rights.

commitments to

stopping gender-

based violence and

harmful practices –

for good.

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The Nairobi Summit shone a spotlight on the

unequal power dynamics and stigma that

drive discrimination and violence against

women and girls, and are so often entrenched

in laws, policies and social norms

“

We are not just the victims

and the beneficiaries. We are

the survivors and the change

makers, and it is time that

we get what we deserve:

the right to exist freely and

safely in this world.”

—Pooja Singh,

Advocate for adolescents and youth

with Pravah in India

Discussions stressed the urgency of acting

on root causes, which requires the deepest

examination of gender, family, social and

cultural constructs; of what happens in homes

behind closed doors; and of how gender

stereotypes can normalize violence against

women and girls. With the rapid growth of

technology, it is time as well to better respond

to evolving forms of gender-based violence,

including online.

Much unfinished business remains in leaving

no one behind. Moving forward depends

on human rights-based policymaking,

where a core principle and practice is the

more meaningful participation of diverse

communities and marginalized populations.

Different approaches can meet the needs of

particular countries, but all should uphold

the rights and choices of people with

disabilities, indigenous women and girls,

and other key populations such as the LGBTQI

community, which experiences high rates of

gender-based violence.

•

Investing much more in

ending gender-based

violence is an economically

and morally sound choice.

Money stands behind the

commitment to eliminate

harm and violence. It’s

a potent indicator of

government accountability.

•

Creating environments

safe for girls and women

depends on eliminating

discriminatory gender

norms. It calls for closer

engagement with men and

boys towards thinking and

behaving in new ways.

Stigmas and taboos

must be challenged

and broken down,

wherever they

manifest, including

in attitudes, laws,

policies and

institutions.

Let’s

provide respectful

and quality health

care and other

services for ALL!

•

To end gender-based

violence, countries need

the right laws. But faster

progress calls for broad

buy-in, including among

influential religious and

community leaders, from

the local level on up.

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Human rights defenders, leaders of social and

feminist movements, grass-root activists, and

members of community-led organizations and

youth networks can all be powerful agents

of change. They can reach well beyond their

communities and networks, including in

contesting imbalances in power and rights.

Mobilizing new young leaders should be

central to realizing the promises that have

been made, with a systematic emphasis on

young women and girls.

Despite global agreement that gender-based

violence is a human rights violation, a chasm

remains between rhetoric and reality. Too few

financial and human resources are invested

in getting to zero. Gender-based violence

needs to be seen and stopped in all its forms,

whether as economic violence, partner

violence, domestic violence, child marriage,

female genital mutilation, gender-biased sex

selection, denial of access to education or

work, or the denial of rights and choices.

“ I commit to provide the

leadership necessary to

ensure that female genital

mutilation ends within

this generation.”

—Uhuru Kenyatta,

President of the Republic of Kenya

There are many solid examples of countries

dramatically reducing child marriage and

female genital mutilation. Compelling

narratives made it clear that urgent action

is still needed, however, combined with

increased funding, including from domestic

resources. Governments everywhere have the

responsibility to ensure that no woman or girl

is subject to harm.

Building investment cases can draw on

evidence of what works and the perspectives

•

Persons with disabilities are

agents of change, making a

difference everywhere

so that

everyone can live free of violence

and discrimination.

•

Laws must guarantee equal rights

for LGBTQI people. Health services

must meet their needs.

Information

and education on sexual and

reproductive health must include

diverse gender identities and

sexual orientation, diversity and the

protection of rights.

•

Discrimination in health care

translates into widespread

abuse of indigenous peoples.

We must better educate the public

about cultural diversity, provide

culturally accessible and quality

health services and information for

indigenous peoples, and respect their

traditional knowledge and culture.

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“

The violation of our

bodies might heal, but

psychological damage

is harder to repair. This

is how patriarchy uses

violence against women

to keep women trapped

in inequality.”

—Aya Chebbi,

African Union Youth Envoy

of diverse communities. They must span the

national to the local level, and cover economic,

social, cultural and political dimensions. Since

gender-based violence and harmful practices

have significant impacts on economic

development and hinder achievement of the

SDGs, the Decade of Action provides the

political space to act boldly and decisively.

Further momentum comes from the 25th

anniversary of the 1995 Fourth World

Conference on Women in 2020. Achieving

gender equality will be fundamental, because

without that, the toll of violence against

women and girls will never end.

Participants stressed that the road from Nairobi leads to the 25th

anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women.

•

We need to better see the

problems and monitor

progress. That means

more disaggregated and

reliable data, especially on

marginalized communities

invisible in current data

and research.

•

Let’s not talk about young

•

Scaled-up support should go

towards further

empowering

grass-roots actors on the

front lines

of stopping

gender-based violence and

harmful practices.

people. Let young people do

the talking! They should have

leading roles in

changing

the culture of relationships,

providing behavioural

education for children, and

assessing their own needs.

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THEME 5

Upholding the right to sexual

and reproductive health care even in

humanitarian and fragile contexts

Peace and Humanitarian Action:

Put women, girls and young people

at the centre!

Today, more than 2 billion people live in

countries affected by conflict, violence

and fragility. Only by meeting their needs

can the world realize the ICPD promise of

universal rights to sexual and reproductive

health care and an end to gender-based

violence, along with commitments to

women and youth made in Security Council

resolutions 1325 and 2250.

Of 143 million people requiring

humanitarian assistance in 2019, more

than one in four were women and

adolescent girls of reproductive age.

A youth leader from the Dadaab Refugee Complex

highlighted the power of young people in promoting

positive change in countries affected by crisis.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

•

Uphold

sexual and reproductive health

and rights

in conflict situations,

backed

by the increased allocation of resources.

Apply a gender lens to all programmes!

•

More can be done to deploy

mobile services

to reach vulnerable women and girls in remote

areas. There should be a focus on community

health care, not just hospitals, to provide

sexual and reproductive health services.

•

Crisis should not interrupt the

continuum

of care.

In armed conflicts, preserving

the health system, including to provide

sexual and reproductive health care,

should be a priority.

•

crisis preparedness

should include

pre-positioning more reproductive health kits.

Pre-crisis training on humanitarian tools and

coordination mechanisms is critical.

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@MavicCBalleza:

We spoke about reproductive health in peacebuilding at

the resolution 1325 anniversary in New York and spoke about it again at

#NairobiSummit. We’ll speak again and again until there’s sustainable peace!

Until there’s no more sexual violence in conflict at any time.

—Victoria “Mavic” Cabrera Balleza,

Founder and CEO of the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders

Yet sexual and reproductive health services

are often overlooked and underfunded in

emergencies. The shortfall continues despite

some tremendous successes in delivering

high-quality sexual and reproductive health

services to populations in the most difficult

environments.

Much more can be done with the right

planning, coordination and funding.

Participants called for a feminist approach to

humanitarian action as well as more attention

to adolescent sexual and reproductive health,

and specific support to menstrual hygiene

through education and sanitary towel

distribution. Community engagement can

empower women and girls, and change social

norms by working with men and boys.

Compelling stories highlighted vulnerability to

gender-based violence in conflicts and natural

disasters, and the horrors of sexual abuse,

which occurs with impunity around the world.

Activists working on the ground stressed

commitments to protecting the safety and

rights of all women and girls, including those

who are hard to reach and most vulnerable.

Life-saving interventions during humanitarian

crises must be linked to longer term

development actions to advance human rights,

reduce risk, strengthen preparedness and build

resilience. This can build on strengthening

national systems, including for health care and

supply chains. Local systems and solutions are

especially important.

All discussions took up the centrality of

solutions driven by women and girls, young

people and marginalized populations. They

bear enormous burdens in humanitarian and

fragile contexts, whether these arise from

conflict, violence, fragility, climate change

and environmental degradation or a

combination of factors.

•

Integrate essential services to prevent

and respond to

gender-based violence

within sexual and reproductive health

care. Services should be inclusive

and comprehensive, linking legal,

psychological, medical and educational

assistance, and responding to needs for

electricity, sanitation, food security and

so on.

•

Bring

more women into peace talks and peacebuilding

– from all population groups and from the beginning!

Peacebuilding should involve not only the antagonists

in a conflict, but all members of the society.

•

Establishing

safe spaces for girls and women

caught

in crisis gives them space to talk freely and participate

in designing programmes based on their needs.

Programmes should ensure that women and girls find

safety and can avoid harmful coping mechanisms.

•

Preventing

sexual exploitation

and abuse

and ensuring access to justice where it

does occur should be a top priority.

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Climate change, for instance, puts huge

stress on ecosystems, food production, soil

and coastlines, where women, especially in

marginalized communities, typically have

fewer resources to cope. It will be crucial

for responses, such as forest and land

management projects, to incorporate gender,

women’s health and empowerment, and

sexual and reproductive health, and aim at

both resilience and sustainability. Increasingly,

young people are leading climate action,

urging significant investment in adaptation

and resilience. Their calls for community

leadership, youth empowerment and

opportunities for political action deserve

more attention and investment.

Women and girls can play essential parts in

negotiating peace agreements and sustaining

peace. Yet they remain on the margins, denied

their right to lead and participate. Women

who have been included and excluded in

peace processes shared compelling stories

about the subsequent impact on prospects

for peace. They galvanized renewed

commitments to bringing many more

women into negotiating ceasefires, preventing

conflicts, participating in peace processes

and building sustainable futures. “No women,

no peace” was reiterated as the rallying cry.

Similarly, the active participation of youth

underpins social cohesion as well as long-

term development, peace and security.

Conflict, violence and disasters have devastating effects

on people’s bodies and also their minds, underscoring the

essential requirement for mental health and psychosocial

support to be integral to humanitarian responses.

How does an adolescent girl recover from

rape and childbirth in conflict settings, for

example? Participants discussed barriers to

mental health and psychosocial interventions

in emergencies, and the most promising

solutions. They stressed how these services

can uphold human rights and justice, and

pave the way for others to help people cope

and restore a sense of normalcy in their lives.

•

Mental health and psychosocial support

in crisis are major but underrecognized

issues. It is time to prioritize, scale up and

sustain related interventions. This requires

sufficient resources, skills, services and

capacities. Interventions must be tailored to

local communities and engage young people,

women, people living with disabilities and other

marginalized populations.

•

Young people need to be fully involved

as agents of change in humanitarian

situations. Comprehensive sexuality

education should be integral to

humanitarian action, as it equips

young people with knowledge and the

skills to make informed decisions.

Engaging youth in peace processes

fosters social cohesion and longer

term prospects to restore stability and

return to development.

•

More should be done to roll out capacity

development programmes on mental health

and psychosocial support for people on the

front lines of humanitarian action, and to collect

more evidence on effective responses.

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Committed to Change,

III:

Accountable for Progress

The Nairobi Summit had an overarching vision: inspire action that

makes a difference. Get people from all walks of life to come with a

concrete plan to accelerate progress and fulfil ICPD promises. And

then call on them to stand up and announce their commitments for

all the world to hear. It’s about change and accountability, about

finishing the unfinished agenda, about getting to zero!

Before people came to the Summit, they

were invited to post commitments on a

dedicated website (nairobisummiticpd.org/

commitments).

Some 1,253 commitments

were uploaded before and during the Summit.

Aligned with the 12 global commitments of

the Nairobi Statement, all were expected to

match a big dream with a well-defined plan to

power real and lasting progress.

The Summit could have been just another

global event: lots of interesting discussions,

new insights, new energy, good intentions,

but in the end, little accountability. It was the

commitments that dramatically raised the

Summit’s level of meaning and relevance,

even more so because they were made on a

voluntary basis. People chose to come and

chose to commit, achieving a heightened

ownership and legitimacy that will last for

years to come.

Over three days, participants listened intently

to 247 commitment statements, the basis for

actionable changes worldwide.

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Global leaders from around the world and across the United Nations opened the commitments

session and pledged the specific steps they would take to finish unfinished business.

THE COMMITMENTS SESSION:

THE POLITICAL HEART OF THE SUMMIT

The political heart of the Summit was the commitments session. In a vibrant atmosphere

of hope and change, and addressing over 4,500 participants with standing room only, the

co-convenors invited global leaders to announce their commitments. Below are excerpts from

these commitments to frame the Summit’s high ambition towards the attainment of the ICPD

Plan of Action.

His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, President,

Republic of Kenya:

Increased budgetary

allocations and integration of population

issues into all national and subnational

policies, increase in HIV and social protection

allocations, elimination of female genital

mutilation in Kenya by 2022 and all forms of

gender-based violence and harmful practices

by 2030.

His Excellency Rasmus Prehn, Minister

for Development Cooperation, Denmark:

International and national actions to

increase funding levels in service delivery,

accountability measurement of the Nairobi

Summit commitments, nationwide counselling

for youth victims of dating violence.

Her Excellency Amina Mohammed, Deputy

Secretary-General, United Nations:

Support

to national governments, alignment and

coordination of UN teams and UN reform

processes, data gathering and dissemination,

Nairobi Summit commitment fulfilment as

critical contribution to the SDGs and integral

part of the Decade of Action.

Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director,

United Nations Population Fund:

Lead on

three zeros globally, and remain custodians

of ICPD especially for all marginalized

populations, in development and humanitarian

contexts, provision of reproductive health

commodities, mobilize diversified funding to

meet the financial gap.

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His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,

President, Republic of Uganda:

Eliminating

obstacles that stand in the way of women’s

and girls’ empowerment including teenage

pregnancy, child marriage, and all forms

of gender-based violence, and introducing

sexuality education in schools.

His Excellency Danny Faure, President,

Republic of Seychelles:

Ensuring that

10 per cent of the State budget goes to

universal health coverage, including sexual

and reproductive health.

His Excellency Mohamed Abdullahi

Mohamed, President, Federal Republic

of Somalia:

Supporting women and girls,

ensuring public services, justice, equality and

societal engagement with policy makers. No

nation can succeed with half of its population

marginalized!

His Excellency Gaston Brown, Prime

Minister, Antigua and Barbuda:

Ensuring

full access to all adolescents, youth and girls,

and continued progress in preventing mother-

to-child transmission of HIV, introducing

legislative and legal protection frameworks

on gender-based violence, and passing new

gender equality legislation including necessary

domestic resources.

Her Excellency Epsy Campbell Barr, First

Vice-President, Republic of Costa Rica:

Providing protection of the rights of the more

than 2 million people of African descent in South

America and the Caribbean, making visible the

intersectionality and vulnerabilities affecting

them and overcoming structural obstacles and

discrimination.

Her Excellency Jewel Cianeh Howard-

Taylor, Vice-President, Republic of Liberia:

Contraceptive access by 2030 and attainment

of the 12 global commitments of the Nairobi

Statement.

Her Excellency Dr. Hala Mostafa Elsaid

Zayed, Minister of Health and Population,

Arab Republic of Egypt:

Given that Egypt

hosted and co-convened the ICPD 1994, and

given its regional and multilateral role, Egypt

is keen to help face the complex elements of

population issues and garner political will to

implement the Programme of Action!

Her Royal Highness Princess Angelika

Latūfuipeka

Halaevalu Mata’aho Napua-o-

kalani Tuku’aho, Kingdom of Tonga:

Ensuring

universal availability of quality, affordable

and safe modern contraceptives by no later

than 2030 and in this time of climate change,

integrating sexual and reproductive health

services and gender-based violence programmes

during disaster responses.

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Her Excellency

Epsy Campbell Barr,

First Vice-President

of Costa Rica.

organizations, academia and regional

organizations. The overcrowded room

boasted a completely filled schedule of

three-minute interventions.

The commitments session unfolded in

line with the inclusive spirit of the Summit.

Presentations from high-level government

officials and ministers were liberally mixed

with those from civil society representatives,

business people and more, giving everyone

equal prominence. The format broke down

barriers and recognized that the ICPD agenda

belongs to everyone, benefits everyone

and requires everyone to do their part. The

commitment session closed at the end of day

three with 1,253 documented commitments,

far beyond the already high ambition of the

Summit co-convenors.

Following these remarkable initial

statements of national and global import,

all stakeholders were invited to the dedicated

commitment session that ran for three days,

non-stop.

Some 145 Governments stepped up to

make commitments, as did a mix of 102

civil society organizations, private sector

companies, parliamentarians, youth groups,

speakers representing indigenous peoples

and people with disabilities, faith-based

EXCERPTS FROM PARTNER STATEMENTS DURING THE

THREE-DAY COMMITMENT SESSION

URUGUAY:

We must ensure no one is left

behind, no one is left out of human rights-

based society, that no one can own the

bodies of others, nor can love be made illegal

in any form.

NEPAL

commits to reducing maternal deaths

to 70 per 100,000 live births and reducing

maternal morbidity through integrating

comprehensive sexual and reproductive

health services as part of the universal health

coverage basic health package, ensuring that

the proportion of births attended by skilled

birth attendant increases to 90 percent by

2030, and the provision of legal abortion

and post-abortion services that are safe,

accessible, affordable and good quality.

The basic health package will be provided

free-of charge and other services beyond

the basic health package will be offered

at an affordable cost through targeted

subsidies and various social protection and

health insurance schemes for vulnerable

populations.

Summit commitments are transformative, as they will galvanize global,

national and local actions towards specific, time-bound financial,

legislative, public and corporate results.

Commitments inspired close attention because they were all

made voluntarily, and by people from all regions and walks of life,

reflecting how everyone has a role in achieving the ICPD agenda.

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The YouthNow! commitment combined inputs from 39 civil society

organizations and youth networks from across Latin America and

the Caribbean.

SOUTH AFRICA:

The right to bodily integrity

is at the centre of the protection of human

dignity and thereby places a positive duty on

the new democratic government of South

Africa to put in place progressive population

and development policies and laws.

BURKINA FASO:

The goal is to provide free

access to modern contraceptive methods

across the national territory in public and

private health care facilities by 2022.

Y-PEER MOLDOVA

commits to reach

10,000 young people annually with peer-

to-peer comprehensive and age-appropriate

education on sexual and reproductive

health and rights using alternative methods

of education (such as theatre-based

techniques, role games, simulations, etc.)

with the purpose to increase their capacity in

tackling informed decisions and having safe

behaviours.

SAVE THE CHILDREN

will uphold the right

to universal sexual and reproductive health

care in humanitarian and fragile contexts

by reaching 1,000,000 new contraceptive

users in these settings by 2030 – 30% of

whom are adolescents and youth (10-24

years) – targeting the most vulnerable and

marginalized.

“What was impressive for me to

witness during the three days of

the Summit was the high number of

young people whose participation

was supported through the

scholarship programme. Moreover,

the diversity of the young people

who marched to Nairobi to be

part of the historic moment is

something one should always

remember: youth with disabilities,

LGBTQI, indigenous youth from

all corners of the globe. That was

one of the most diverse youth

participation I have witnessed.”

—Jayathma Wickramanayake,

UN Special Envoy on Youth

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The Merck For Mothers Initiative presented

a commitment statement.

During the Summit, the Governments of

Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,

Germany, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands,

Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom,

together with the European Commission,

committed around $1 billion in new money to

support finishing the unfinished business.

The involvement of businesses, academia,

civil society, foundations and others was

crucial, leading to one of the largest financial

investments – totalling $8 billion – ever

announced to advance the ICPD agenda.

Sportspeople, fashion designers and

supermodels unveiled new and innovative

initiatives, signalling the commitment of

multibillion-dollar industries with the power to

change how we think and talk about women’s

health, menstrual hygiene, sexuality and sex

education.

COMMITMENTS BY THE ISSUES

ACHIEVE SEXUAL AND

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

AND RIGHTS AS PART

OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH

COVERAGE

43%

RESPOND TO DEMOGRAPHIC

DIVERSITY

END GENDER-BASED

VIOLENCE AND HARMFUL

PRACTICES

MOBILIZE MORE FINANCIAL

RESOURCES

UPHOLD SEXUAL AND

REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

AND RIGHTS IN

HUMANITARIAN AND

FRAGILE CONTEXTS

21%

22%

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IV:

A Voice for Everyone

The Nairobi Summit was a moment of transition from those

who have steered the ICPD Programme of Action for 25 years

to those who will lead the way forward to 2030, through the

SDG Decade of Action and the full realization of ICPD promises.

At every opportunity, the Summit celebrated

ICPD champions and young people,

marginalized communities and visionary

leaders active on all elements of the agenda.

The global movement for sexual and

reproductive health and rights became richer

and more diverse, with strong engagement

from Governments, young people, women’s

organizations, businesses, royalty, refugees,

grass-roots organizations, sports personalities,

faith-based organizations, LGBTQI

communities and the United Nations family.

In joining the call to achieve rights and choices

for all, they made commitments, presented

innovative programmes, listened, discussed

and debated. They were thrilled by stories

of hope and achievement, and saddened by

stories of those suffering in silence.

Over 8,300 people

from 172 countries and

territories participated,

debated and celebrated

at the Summit.

Special Olympics athlete Kester Eduards

demonstrated inclusively-designed trainers,

one of many ways to encourage everyone

to participate in sports.

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Every aspect of the Summit promoted the rights of persons

with differing abilities, leading some to commend it as the

most inclusive meeting of its kind.

“Women’s and girls’ right to the health care they need and

their

right to bodily integrity is non-negotiable.

We cannot

talk about investments and services without making sure

that human rights principles are directing them”.

—Gabriella Cuevas Baron,

President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

PARLIAMENTARIANS

Over 200 parliamentarians from more than

100 countries came to the Summit from

across the political spectrum. Their common

commitment: advance the health and rights of

women and girls everywhere.

Parliamentarians emphasized that health

and rights transcend political differences.

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Her Excellency the First Lady of

Kenya, Margaret Kenyatta, delivered

the keynote speech at the When

Women Lead session.

WHEN WOMEN LEAD

A women-only high-level dialogue offered a

rich mosaic of royalty, first ladies, ministers,

parliamentarians, women of African descent,

indigenous women, young women leaders,

feminists and activists, women leaders from

the private sector, supermodels, academics

and advocates. Her Excellency Margaret

Kenyatta, First Lady of Kenya, delivered the

keynote speech.

She urged all women “to stand together

to pledge to fulfil the ICPD commitments

on maternal deaths by 2030, and to build

sustainable solutions for an inclusive and

more equal world”.

The “Fabric of Being” textile exhibition

showcased renowned artists and designers

from Africa and Asia, presenting textile

artwork from handmade batik and indigo,

to crotchet and khanga.

“Over the last seven years, I have

learned that change requires more

than collective and capable minds.

It requires boldness, innovation, a

spirit of humility and the capacity to

critically question the status quo –

to move beyond business as usual

and to dare to do things differently.”

—Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta

First Lady of Kenya

ARTISTS AND FABRICS

In vibrant colours and striking designs, the

“Fabric of Being: Textiles, gender equality and

the empowerment of women” exhibit told the

story of how textiles define the lives of people

– and women, in particular – as they move

through the life cycle, negotiating sexuality,

fertility, reproduction, relationships, childbirth,

health, illness and inevitably death.

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THE PAMOJA ZONE

The Pamoja Zone provided an exciting, interactive space to explore new perspectives

and experiences. Participants included the more than 1,000 young people and members

of small communities who attended the Summit through UNFPA scholarships. They

brought to the table a true grass-roots spirit and base of evidence.

Participants praised the Pamoja Zone for

enabling interaction and a smooth flow of

dialogue, and being a safe space, without

judgment or restraint. Speakers shared

opinions, experiences and ideas without

hesitation.

More than 84 “lightning talks” (rapid 15

to 30 minute sessions) and 19 community

conversations featured speakers from 78

countries. They covered topics including

accelerating sexual and reproductive health

and rights, humanitarian action, youth peace

and security, population and data, and

innovative community approaches. “Meet

the Leaders” sessions became platforms for

conversations between ICPD leaders and

Summit participants, involving Her Royal

Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark,

the UNFPA Executive Director, two senators

from Ireland, the African Union’s Youth Envoy

and the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Envoy.

Youth and grass-roots activists offered

community-driven solutions to inspire the

broader ICPD community. They showcased

how they carve out spaces to talk about sex,

sexuality and gender, including by involving

traditional leaders, religious organizations,

and men and boys. Gender equality and

gender diversity were themes emerging

strongly from many discussions where

participants deconstructed social norms and

patriarchal values.

Comprehensive sexuality education was also

a hot topic, with debate on how to integrate

it into the school curriculum, and strengthen

the ability of teachers and service providers to

deliver it. Frank discussions broke out around

issues often seen as sensitive or taboo, such

as access to safe abortion, menstrual health

management, and sexuality for people living

with disabilities.

Conversations flowed freely in the Pamoja Zone, a dedicated

space for sharing and identifying steps to accelerate ICPD

implementation on the ground. All ideas were welcome, heard

without restraint.

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There was much talk about the role

of new technologies in igniting more

open discussions around sex, sexuality,

relationships and gender. Speakers showcased

cutting-edge data innovations, and touched

on the need to both protect privacy and

fully include marginalized populations.

Vibrant exchanges took place around geo-

localization technologies to better target

development investments, and explored how

the integration of different data sets such as

geo-located censuses, household surveys

and satellite imagery can reveal subnational

inequalities and locate those usually missed

in data collection.

As part of the Pamoja Zone, the Human

Library hosted more than 30 speakers with

various backgrounds and expertise, inspiring

participants and creating new connections

in a more informal setting. Among them

were actors and artists fighting for gender

equality, LGBTQI inclusion and access

to comprehensive sexuality education;

youth leaders championing environmental

innovations and promoting the rights

of refugees; and researchers pioneering

new methods to track progress on ICPD

commitments.

The Pamoja Zone featured 84 lightning talks and

19 community conversations, with speakers from

78 countries. The majority were below age 35.

SAFE SPACE FOR ALL

To make the Summit a safe space for all,

participants were required to adhere to the

Code of Conduct to Prevent Harassment,

including Sexual Harassment. A team

of 30 designated “safe-persons” and a

streamlined incident reporting system

ensured comprehensive safeguarding.

The Kenyatta International Convention

Centre became United Nations

international territory for the duration of

the Summit, and was under the protection

of the United Nations Department of

Safety and Security with support from

national and local authorities.

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THE FAMILY OF WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL

The Family of Women Film Festival featured 11 feature and

short-form documentaries and dramatic films on ICPD

themes, as well as interactive discussions with award-

winning film makers, artists and musicians. A highlight was

A Girl from Mogadishu

(Somalia), a full-length dramatic feature

telling the extraordinary life story of advocate against female

genital mutilation Ifrah Ahmed and Irish director Mary McGuckian.

The film has gone on to win several film awards.

Ahmed told the audience, “A

Girl from

Mogadishu

is based on my story – but

it is also the story of the 200 million

women and girls worldwide who have

suffered the consequences of female

genital mutilation. And while the movie

is intended to focus attention on the

barbarity and scale of the practice, its

ambition is also to empower all young

women and girls to have the courage to

stand up and speak out!”

Also featured were other

compelling stories including

The

Eagle Huntress

(Mongolia),

Standing On Their Shoulders

(South Africa),

Pili

(Tanzania), the

Academy Award-winning

Saving

Face

(Pakistan) and

The Cave

(Syria). The films were interspersed

with interactive sessions featuring

emerging artists, and storytellers,

poets and visual artists.

A scene from the award-winning

The Girl from Mogadishu,

which

drew attention to the scourge of

female genital mutilation.

AWARDS NIGHT

An awards ceremony and reception, hosted by

UNFPA, celebrated outstanding contributions to

advancing the ICPD agenda and achieving rights

and choices for all. Her Majesty, Gyalyum

Sangay Choden Wangchuck, Queen Mother of

Bhutan (left) looks on as Dr. Natalia Kanem,

Executive Director of UNFPA (centre),

recognizes Rebeca Gyumi, Executive

Director of the Msichana Initiative.

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A Global Call to Action

The Nairobi Summit on ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise

closed as it began – with renewed dedication and drive! There was

tremendous energy after three days of discussions and debates,

consensus, commitments, new friendships, strengthened

networks, and a shared feeling of success and purpose.

At the closing ceremony, there was no

doubt that the three objectives set out at the

beginning of the ICPD25 process had been

fully met. In fact, the Summit, and the process

leading up to it, exceeded all expectations.

No one could have fully imagined all the

people reached and engaged, the diversity

of stakeholders involved, the commitments

made, the political and financial buy-in

achieved, and the new avenues to realize

ICPD promises explored. It was a more than

befitting way to start the UN Decade of

Action to achieve the SDGs.

The Summit demonstrated as never before

that the three zeros have now been universally

embraced as key vehicles to achieve the

promise of the ICPD. Diverse actors can

come to a common table with a common

vision – to debate, resolve, and promote sexual

KEY SUMMIT TAKEAWAYS

•

The three zeros

of ending

maternal death, unmet

need for family planning,

and gender-based violence

and harmful practices

are

cornerstones for achieving

the 2030 Agenda for

Sustainable Development.

• Universal access to

sexual and reproductive

health

is an essential

part of

universal health

coverage

and the

achievement of

the SDGs.

• We know the

price tag

to reach the three

zeros, and that,

if no

action is taken, the costs

will be incalculably

greater, in financial and

human terms.

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“I have been to many conferences,

and if attendance is any measure

of success, this conference is in

its own class! This is the only

conference I have attended where

there are more people at the

closing ceremony than at the

opening ceremony!”

—His Excellency Dr. William Samoei Ruto,

Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya

and reproductive rights and health across

populations and cultures. It is possible to get

voluntary commitments that are truly owned,

achievable and attainable. An international

plan of action is implementable through public

and private voluntary global, national, local

and individual actionable commitments.

It was also clear that an intergenerational

transition had begun. Young people are

empowered and ready for change, from

rural villages to global conference tables. By

coming in such large numbers, from every

corner of the world, and infusing dialogues

and debates with their wisdom and energy,

they demonstrated that they are more than

prepared to carry the torch to 2030. Further,

as we look to the coming decade, sexual and

reproductive health and rights must be at the

forefront of the SDGs. With Summit sessions

addressing all 17 of the global goals, different

participants repeatedly observed that there are

no SDGs without the ICPD.

As a special tribute to rights and choices for

all, celebrated Moroccan artist Ahmed Chawki

composed and performed his new song on

the ICDP at the close of the Summit. He was

a smash hit and had people out of their seats,

dancing. He charmed the audience with his

personal story of triumph, thanking his single

mother for being strong and supporting him.

• Ending gender-based

violence and harmful

practices is

imperative,

possible and urgent.

• Investing in human capital

and drawing on

demographic

diversity will drive economic

growth

and achieve sustainable

development, and is key to

ensure economic, social and

environmental justice.

• Upholding rights to sexual and

reproductive health care even

in humanitarian and fragile

contexts remains a priority,

and is

a pathway to peace and

development.

• To enact the ICPD agenda we

need to

transform our societies.

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Afropop superstar Yemi Alade of Nigeria,

known as the “woman of steel”, also

took to the stage. Her message: “An

investment in women and girls is

an investment in a nation.”

The three co-convenors, the

Governments of Denmark

and Kenya as well as

UNFPA, closed the Summit

by urging an elated audience

to meet their commitments,

take forward concrete actions and

deliver fully on the promise of the

ICPD.

Karen Ellemann, Member of Parliament

for the Liberal Party of Denmark, and

Chairwoman of the All-party Parliamentary

Group on Sexual and Reproductive Rights,

said, “The Nairobi Summit has made it clear

that an overwhelming majority of countries

want to accelerate the promise of Cairo; that

an overwhelming majority of stakeholders

want to partner in this effort to make the

ICPD Programme of Action a reality for all.”

Afropop superstar Yemi Alade

brought down the house in a surprise

performance. She rallied the crowd,

leading chants of “ICPD, ICPD, ICPD”.

The celebrated Moroccan singer

and songwriter Chawki inspired

hope and solidarity with his original

composition “Together we Rise”.

•

Women leaders are

transforming the status

quo, and

protecting and

advancing hard-won rights;

men and boys need to be

engaged too.

• Political and community

leadership are needed to

address inequalities in

sexual and reproductive

health and rights,

make the

“invisible”, visible, and end

stigma and discrimination.

• Meaningful

youth

engagement and

leadership

maximizes

everyone’s potential,

and leads to prosperity

and peace.

• Innovation, technology,

creativity, data and

voice will

amplify

results and scale up

progress to meet the

promise of Cairo.

•

Partnerships have been

strengthened and movements

expanded

with Governments,

regional bodies, international

organizations, civil society,

community-based organizations

from marginalized groups

and people with disabilities,

the private sector, academia,

philanthropists, activists,

celebrities and artists.

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WE ARE READY TO ACCELERATE THE PROMISE!

Participants from Governments, civil society, academia, the private sector, youth groups,

humanitarian actors and the United Nations shared heartfelt reflections on the Summit.

“Greater investment in health

and secondary education for

women and girls could go a

long way towards the critical

goals of ending preventable

maternal deaths, unmet need

for family planning, and

gender-based violence.”

—Christopher Murray,

Institute for Health Metrics

and Evaluation

“Thank you for the decision not

to leave girls like me behind.

We are the generation born

after Cairo, and we are ready

to accelerate the promise. The

Summit has affirmed my faith

in the power of nations to

embrace the fullness of human

life beyond number.”

—Priscilla Nyamal,

Refugee from South Sudan

and member of the Kakuma

Youth Parliament, Kakuma

Refugee Camp, Kenya

“Sexual and reproductive

health and rights is a win-

win concept... If you want

to address these issues

successfully you need to

engage faith communities...

Challenge false theologies,

lift up research that shows

the effectiveness of gender

justice work, and lift up

good examples, both from

governance and grass-roots

level, empower women in

leadership, and last but

not least, provide safe and

brave spaces for difficult

conversations and keep those

conversations going.”

—Dr. Antje Jackelen,

Archbishop of the Church

of Sweden

“The highlight of this Summit

is the commitment of my

President that other girls

and I who are worried about

their education can access it

without any worries. And that

we are protected from harmful

practices such as [female

genital mutilation] and early

marriage. As a matter of fact I

will be 39 years old when the

next ICPD50 will be held and

I will work hard to accelerate

the promise. I will also urge

the stakeholders in this room

to invest in sports and safe

spaces for girls like me from

challenging backgrounds.”

—Stacey Akinyi,

14-year-old Ambassador

at Polycom of Sports, Kibera

Slums, Kenya

In sharing final reflections, Stacey Akinyi welcomed the commitment of her President.

Behind her (left to right) are Priscilla Nyamal; Dr. Antje Jackelen; Her Excellency Lindiwe

Zulu, Minister of South Africa; Dr. Sheikh Hassan Kinyua Omari; Chris Murray; Lantonirina

Rakotomalala; Naisola Likimani and Haifa Sdiri.

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FROM COMMITMENTS TO ACTION

The Nairobi Summit had high ambitions. Nothing less will do as the world embarks on

the Decade of Action to achieve the SDGs by 2030. Much work lies ahead to realize

sexual and reproductive health and rights. We must close the financing gap. We

must end inequalities. In its call to transform rhetoric into actionable commitments,

the Nairobi Summit has already resulted in 1,253 steps forward through its voluntary

commitments to action.

It is an extraordinary moment of hope and

momentum, one that must be seized and

sustained. Everyone must take part in, and be

accountable for, accelerating the promise.

Individuals

can step forward to know and

claim their rights and choices, while doing

everything they can to protect the rights and

choices of others.

Communities and local groups

can support

the diverse groups committed to realizing the

ICPD agenda through continued intersectoral

and intergenerational dialogue and action at

all levels, recognizing the centrality of young

people as new leaders.

Nations

must be accountable to their citizens

and to other nations by providing sufficient

domestic and international resources, aiming

public policy at the three zeros, legislating in

line with human rights and sharing lessons to

accelerate progress.

Regions

can work across borders to

encourage solidarity and consensus in

achieving the ICPD agenda in its entirety.

Private sector partners

should be fully

aligned with the ICPD agenda and the SDGs

through their actions, products, messaging,

practices and investments.

THREE CRITICAL ACTIONS

Of the many actions that will follow the

Nairobi Summit, three are critical overall to

keep progress on track. The first is to cost

and implement the Summit commitments.

The second is to encourage Governments

and partners to voluntarily report on their

achievements, including through the

Voluntary National Reviews as the main

monitoring tool for the SDGs, and the

Universal Periodic Review under the UN

Human Rights Council. The third entails

multiple stakeholders monitoring the 12 global

commitments in the Nairobi Statement. A

high-level commission will be established to

provide follow-up oversight.

Our collective actions will take us to zero, ensuring rights and

choices for girls and women, boys and men, everyone, everywhere.

We will keep our promises.

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“WE KEEP MOVING FORWARD.

We will

NEVER RETREAT.

We are in a race

to the finish

line,

AND WE SHALL PREVAIL.”

—Dr. Natalia Kanem,

Executive Director, UNFPA

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Annex 1:

Nairobi Statement on

ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise

This is the final version of the Nairobi Statement, formulated after six months of global consul-

tations led by the International Steering Committee on ICPD25, with hundreds of organizations

and thousands of people involved. The Nairobi Statement provides a global framework for the

formulation of government and partner commitments. Since it is non-binding, countries and other

stakeholders may choose to support the Nairobi Statement in its entirety, in part, or not at all. In

no way does supporting the Nairobi Statement infringe upon national sovereignty.

Introduction

Twenty-five years ago, in 1994, 179 countries

adopted a landmark Programme of Action

during the International Conference on

Population and Development (ICPD), held in

Cairo, Egypt. The ICPD Programme of Action

transformed the way in which the linkages

between population, poverty reduction and

sustainable development were addressed – by

putting the rights, needs and aspirations

of individual human beings at the centre of

sustainable development. The 179 countries

promised to strive for achieving universal

access to sexual and reproductive health, for

all, by no later than 2015; to achieve infant

mortality rates below 35 per 1,000 live births

and under-5 mortality rates below 45 per

1,000 live births by 2015; and a 75 per cent

reduction of the maternal mortality rate by

2015.

In 2010, the UN General Assembly

extended this promise beyond the 20-year

timeframe given in the ICPD Programme of

Action in order to “fully meet its goals and

objectives”.

In 2014, the UN Commission

on Population and Development took note

of the outcome documents of the regional

conferences on population and development,

stating that each outcome provided

region-specific guidance on population

and development beyond 2014 for each

region that adopted the particular outcome

document.

iii

In 2015, the international

community also reaffirmed the commitment

of putting “people, planet and prosperity” at

the centre of sustainable development and

leaving no one behind, when it adopted the

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

and the Sustainable Development Goals

(SDGs). And, on 1 April 2019, UN Member

States adopted a Declaration during the 52nd

session of the UN Commission on Population

and Development that reaffirmed the

importance of the ICPD Programme of Action

for guiding population and development

policies and programmes, within the

context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable

Development, and pledged to undertake

further actions to ensure its “full, effective and

accelerated implementation”.

The future of sustainable development is

directly linked to fulfilling the aspirations

of adolescents and youth. Empowering

the world’s 1.8 billion young people and

unleashing their full potential to contribute

to economic and social progress will be

instrumental for bringing the vision and the

promise of the ICPD Programme of Action

and of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable

Development to life.

Moreover, the achievement of sustainable,

just and inclusive development must be

based on actions that meet the needs and

aspirations of all. Consequently, governments

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that embraced the ICPD Programme of Action

25 years ago, and reaffirmed it in subsequent

intergovernmental fora and reviews, should

continue to invest in its full and accelerated

implementation, and support concrete actions

to that effect, within the overall context of the

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Furthermore, to fulfil the unfinished business

of the ICPD Programme of Action and enable

the guarantee and respect for human rights

everywhere around the world, strengthening

civil society organizations and movements

who have defended it and worked for its

implementation is necessary and crucial. This

means that those organizations, movements,

institutions and individuals must be able to

work freely in a safe environment, including

through the active protection of sexual and

reproductive health and rights

and human

rights defenders.

The way forward

We, representing all nations and peoples,

and all segments of our societies,

meet at

the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, from 12 to

14 November 2019, in Kenya, to present our

own ambitious commitments with concrete

and innovative actions that will accelerate the

implementation of the ICPD Programme of

Action, leaving no one behind, ensuring rights

and choices for all.

Despite remarkable progress over the past 25

years, the promise of the ICPD Programme of

Action remains a distant reality for millions of

people across the world. Universal access to

the full range of sexual and reproductive health

information, education and services, as defined

in the ICPD Programme of Action and the Key

Actions for the Further Implementation of the

Programme of Action of the ICPD,

vii

has not

been achieved. We acknowledge that unless

we complete the unfinished business of the

ICPD Programme of Action and realize the

strong and evidence-based investment case

for ensuring sexual and reproductive health

and rights for all, and for girls’ and women’s

empowerment and gender equality, reaching

the ambitious SDGs by 2030 will be difficult, if

not impossible.

Our world has, in many ways, profoundly

changed over the last 25 years, and many

new issues are influencing the field of

population and development, including

climate change, growing inequalities and

exclusion within and between countries,

migration, the youth bulge and the prospects

of demographic dividends, and increasing

demographic diversity.

Advancing the ICPD Programme of Action’s

promise of universal access to sexual and

reproductive health, of girls’ and women’s

empowerment and gender equality, while

leaving no one behind, in particular youth as

agents of positive change and the leaders

of the generation to carry forward the ICPD

Programme of Action and the 2030 Agenda

for Sustainable Development, requires

new, innovative and strategic partnerships,

including with and between youth, civil

society organizations, local communities, the

private sector, and through South-South and

triangular cooperation among countries.

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Therefore, recognizing our different capacities and responsibilities, our way forward is to focus

in particular on those actions, expressed in specific commitments and collaborative actions, that

will deliver on the promise of the ICPD Programme of Action, the Key Actions for the Further

Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, and the outcomes of its reviews, and the

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In that context, we will:

Intensify our efforts for the full, effective

and accelerated implementation and

funding of the ICPD Programme of

Action, Key Actions for the Further

Implementation of the Programme of

Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of

its reviews, and the 2030 Agenda for

Sustainable Development.

Achieve universal access to sexual and

reproductive health and rights as a part of

universal health coverage (UHC)

viii

committing to strive for:

Zero unmet need for family planning

information and services,

and

universal availability of quality,

accessible, affordable and safe modern

contraceptives.

Zero preventable maternal deaths

and

maternal morbidities, such as obstetric

fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a

comprehensive package of sexual and

reproductive health interventions,

xii

including access to safe abortion to

the full extent of the law, measures for

preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions,

and for the provision of post-abortion

care,

xiii

into national UHC strategies,

policies and programmes, and to protect

and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily

integrity, autonomy and reproductive

rights, and to provide access to essential

services in support of these rights.

Access for all adolescents and youth,

especially girls, to comprehensive and

age-responsive information, education

and adolescent-friendly comprehensive,

quality and timely services

xiv

to be able

to make free and informed decisions

and choices about their sexuality and

reproductive lives, to adequately protect

themselves from unintended pregnancies,

all forms of sexual and gender-based

violence and harmful practices, and

sexually transmitted infections, including

HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition

into adulthood.

Address sexual and gender-based violencex

and

harmful practices, in particular child, early and

forced marriages and female genital mutilation,

by committing to strive for:

(a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence

and harmful practices, including zero child,

early and forced marriage,

xvi, xvii

as well as

zero female genital mutilation.

xviii

(b) Elimination of all forms of

discrimination against all women and

girls,

xix

in order to realize all individuals’

full socioeconomic potential.

Mobilize the required financing to finish the

ICPD Programme of Action and sustain the gains

already made, by:

Using national budget processes,

including gender budgeting and

auditing, increasing domestic financing

and exploring new, participatory and

innovative financing instruments and

structures to ensure full, effective and

accelerated implementation of the ICPD

Programme of Action.

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Increasing international financing

for the full, effective and accelerated

implementation of the ICPD Programme

of Action, to complement and catalyse

domestic financing, in particular of sexual

and reproductive health programmes,

and other supportive measures and

interventions that promote gender

equality and girls’ and women’s

empowerment.

Draw on demographic diversity to drive economic

growth and achieve sustainable development, by:

Investing in the education, employment

opportunities, health, including family

planning and sexual and reproductive

health services, of adolescents and youth,

especially girls, so as to fully harness the

promises of the demographic dividend.

Building peaceful, just and inclusive

societies, where no one is left behind,

where all, irrespective of race, colour,

religion, sex, age, disability, language,

ethnic origin,

xxi

sexual orientation and

gender identity or expression, feel valued

and are able to shape their own destiny

and contribute to the prosperity of their

societies.

Providing quality, timely and

disaggregated data, that ensures privacy

of citizens and is also inclusive of younger

adolescents,

xxii

investing in digital health

innovations, including in big data systems,

and improvement of data systems to

inform policies aimed at achieving

sustainable development.

10.

Committing to the notion that nothing

about young people’s health and well-

being can be discussed and decided upon

without their meaningful involvement

and participation (“nothing about us,

without us”).

Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive

health services in humanitarian and fragile

contexts, by:

11.

Ensuring that the basic humanitarian

needs and rights of affected populations,

especially that of girls and women,

are addressed as critical components

of responses to humanitarian and

environmental crises, as well as fragile

and post-crisis reconstruction contexts,

through the provision of access to

comprehensive sexual and reproductive

health information, education and

services, including access to safe abortion

services to the full extent of the law, and

post-abortion care, to significantly reduce

maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual

and gender-based violence and unplanned

pregnancies under these conditions.

Follow-up

All stakeholders, present and not present at

the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25, who have

made concrete commitments to ensure the

full, effective and accelerated implementation

of the ICPD Programme of Action and the

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

are strongly encouraged to report periodically

on the progress towards fulfilling these

commitments through transparent means

and/or in appropriate public fora.

UN Member States are strongly encouraged

to use the reporting ecosystem for the ICPD

Programme of Action and the 2030 Agenda

for Sustainable Development, i.e., the UN

Commission on Population and Development,

the periodic regional review mechanisms

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and the High-Level Political Forum, for

stock-taking on and follow-up to the national

commitments announced at the Nairobi

Summit. Commitments that are specific to

UN entities should be taken up in the context

of their respective governing bodies. We

recommend that UNFPA, the United Nations

Population Fund, periodically report on the

progress made towards achieving the global

commitments outlined above.

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vii

viii

Paras. 7.6, 8.16 and 8.21 of the ICPD Programme of Action.

General Assembly Resolution 65/234, para. 2, of 22

December 2010.

Para. 17 of UN Commission on Population and Development

resolution 2014/1 - Assessment of the status of

implementation of the Programme of Action of the

International Conference on Population and Development.

Political Declaration, adopted at the 52nd session of

the UN Commission on Population and Development

(1-4 April 2019).

The term “sexual and reproductive health and rights” is used

in the UNFPA Strategic Plan (2018 – 2021), paras. 23 and

31, approved by the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board

in decision 2017/23 on 11 September 2017.

In line with para. 4 of General Assembly resolution 70/1 on

the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted on

25 September 2015.

As defined by paras. 7.2, 7.3, 7.6 and 8.25 of the ICPD

Programme of Action (September 1994), and para. 63

of the Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the

Programme of Action of the ICPD (July 1999).

Including in reference to paras. 68 and 69 of the Political

Declaration of the High-level Meeting on Universal Health

Coverage, adopted by the United Nations Member States on

23 September 2019.

This commitment is different from the concept of ‘unmet

need for family planning’, which points to the gap between

women’s reproductive intentions and their contraceptive

behaviour.

Achieving zero unmet need for family planning information

and services is an important indicator of having achieved

universal access to sexual and reproductive health, as

contained in SDG target 3.7 and SDG target 5.6.

Achieving zero maternal deaths is an important indicator of

having achieved universal access to sexual and reproductive

health and reproductive rights, as contained in SDG target

3.7 and SDG target 5.6.

xii

At a minimum, as defined in paras. 7.2, 7.3 and 7.6 of the

ICPD Programme of Action, and para. 53 of the Key Action

for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action

of the ICPD. This could be further guided by the expanded

definition of sexual and reproductive health and rights

interventions, as proposed in the Report of the Guttmacher -

Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and

Rights (May 2018).

xiii In accordance with para. 8.25 of the ICPD Programme

of Action and para. 63 of the Key Actions for the Further

Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD.

xiv In line with international technical guidance; ref

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000260770.

SDG target 5.2.

xvi SDG target 5.3.

xvii This should also include ‘de facto’ child (marital) unions.

xviii SDG target 5.3.

xix SDG target 5.1.

For the definition of ‘demographic dividend’, see

www.unfpa.org/demographic-dividend

xxi Including indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants.

xxii 10-14 years of age.

Thank you from UNFPA to those who made the Nairobi Summit possible

Co-conveners:

The Government of Kenya and the Government of Denmark, with their

inspired leadership

Governance teams:

Immense gratitude goes to the International Steering Committee,

the International Programme Committee, and their thematic working groups and subcommittees

UNFPA staff:

Local, regional and global offices

Co-organizers:

Kenyatta International Convention Centre, Media Edge Consortium, United Nations

Department of Safety and Security, United Nations Offices in Nairobi and Geneva, and the Protocol

and Liaison Service of the United Nations

Government sponsors:

Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,

Kenya, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea, Sweden and Switzerland

Private sector and other partners:

Bayer, Beifang International Education Group, Ford Foundation,

General Electric, Global Citizen, Kenya Airways, Philips, Plan International, Prada Group,

Special Olympics, United Nations Office for Partnerships, Women Deliver and YMCA Africa

A special thanks to all session chairs, panellists, speakers and participants

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