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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

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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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