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Guidance for Host Organisations

Guidance for Host Organisations

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This document is a guide for host Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs) to convene and organise the Disability Data Advocacy Workshop. It supplements the full package of materials for facilitators and participants. The materials were developed by CBM Global’s Inclusion Advisory Group in partnership with UNFPA Asia Pacific, the Stakeholder Group of Persons with Disabilities for Sustainable Development, the International Disability Alliance, and various regional and national OPDs including the Pacific Disability Forum. This partnership aims to build resources, awareness and capacity on disability data with key stakeholders.

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Guidance on the Safe and Ethical Use of Technology to Address Gender-based Violence and Harmful Practices: Implementation Summary

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This resource is the short version of forthcoming guidance that will be fully comprehensive and refer to work at the intersection of gender-based violence (GBV) and harmful practices (HP), data and technology. This summary document is a brief overview of the opportunities, risks and insights relating to potential steps towards creating safe and ethical technology that supports existing GBV/HP programming.

In recognition of the continuous advance of technology, the authors encourage use-case feedback that will allow the document to evolve. Both this document and the longer comprehensive guidance will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, in order that they remain applicable to emerging technologies and their associated risks.

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State obligations regarding SRHR & GBV response during the COVID-19 pandemic

State obligations regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence response during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic response, particularly with regard to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and access to gender-based violence (GBV) services. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia-Pacific Regional Office in collaboration with the Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) commissioned this research to document state obligations regarding SRHR and GBV during the pandemic as part of our efforts to strengthen humanitarian preparedness and response going forward.

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Easy Read: Gender Disability Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Checklist during Covid-19

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This information is about health care for people with disabilities to do with their bodies, sex, relationships and having children.

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Measuring Technology Facilitated Gender-based Violence

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Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF GBV) is an act of violence perpetrated by one or more individuals that is committed, assisted, aggravated and amplified in part or fully by the use of information and communication technologies or digital media, against a person on the basis of their gender. This paper aims to guide the discussion of key considerations relevant to the measurement of TF GBV, and is informed by a rigorous scoping review of approaches, tools, instruments and questions used to measure TF GBV. 

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Cash and Voucher Assistance UNFPA Donor Brief Asia Pacific region 2022

Cash and Voucher Assistance UNFPA Donor Brief Asia Pacific region 2022

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UNFPA’s CVA programming and coordination in the Asia Pacific region

Globally and in the Asia Pacific region, UNFPA recognizes the benefits that CVA can bring to the people it serves.

People-centered approach:

Cash or vouchers can provide crucial support to key populations and specific vulnerable groups in a more flexible, tailored and discreet way than other types of assistance, for example by transfers through digital means and through varied retrieval locations. With cash, pregnant women, people living with HIV, youth and adolescents with specific needs, women and girls survivors or those at risk of Gender-based Violence (GBV), sex workers and other key populations that UNFPA serves, ultimately decide how to use the cash that they are given, in a true people-centered way.

Dignity of choice:

By offering more choice, CVA can not only be more inclusive than other forms of support but can also contribute to women and girls’ empowerment, thereby positively impacting gender dynamics .

Cost-efficiency:

CVA can be a useful tool to ensure more efficient use of limited resources as it can be less costly than procuring in-kind goods during emergency responses.

Across the nexus:

CVA is an approach that can contribute to bridging humanitarian and development programming. CVA can naturally link to more sustainable exit strategies like governments’ social protection cash transfer programmes, which are well established in many countries in the region. To do so, UNFPA is looking to leverage its long-term presence and strong government partnerships in many countries.

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Selected case studies of national population ageing policy interventions in the Asia-Pacific region

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The UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office (APRO) in partnership with HelpAge International undertook a collaborative research project to identify and explore population ageing policy interventions that offer insights into potential good practice to support implementation and adaptation of ageing policies across the Asia-Pacific region. 

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Maldives: Policy-in-practice case study

Maldives: Policy-in-practice case study

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The UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office (APRO) in partnership with HelpAge International undertook a collaborative research project to identify and explore population ageing policy interventions that offer insights into potential good practice to support implementation and adaptation of ageing policies across the Asia-Pacific region. 

This is the case study of national population ageing policy interventions in Maldives. 

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Sri Lanka: Policy-in-practice case study

Sri Lanka: Policy-in-practice case study

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The UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office (APRO) in partnership with HelpAge International undertook a collaborative research project to identify and explore population ageing policy interventions that offer insights into potential good practice to support implementation and adaptation of ageing policies across the Asia-Pacific region. 

This is the case study of national population ageing policy interventions in Sri Lanka. 

 

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Vietnam: Policy-in-practice case study

Vietnam: Policy-in-practice case study

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The UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office (APRO) in partnership with HelpAge International undertook a collaborative research project to identify and explore population ageing policy interventions that offer insights into potential good practice to support implementation and adaptation of ageing policies across the Asia-Pacific region. 

This is the case study of national population ageing policy interventions in Vietnam. 

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