UNFPA ESARO

This technical brief focuses on the relationship between menstrual health and education and skills building, particularly within the African context.

This brochure celebrates SYP's ten years of significant achievements for adolescents and young people in East and Southern Africa.

This two-part technical brief provides guidance on how to strengthen and operationalize the integration of menstrual health in sexual and reproductive health and rights policies and programmes at global, regional and national levels.

UNFPA-ESARO contracted with an independent consultant to review the existing literature relating to adolescent rites of passage and initiation ceremonies in four countries in Southern Africa (Malawi, Eswatini, South Africa and Zambia), to assess the impacts of these rites on young people in those

This guidance note describes the dominant adolescent rites of passage and initiation ceremonies in four countries in the Southern African region (Malawi, Eswatini, South Africa and Zambia).

Safeguard Young People (SYP), UNFPA ESARO’s flagship youth programme, has been implemented by UNFPA and its national and regional partners in eight Southern African countries since November 2013.

The situational analysis is intended to provide a high-level analysis of the current state of access to SRHR services by young persons with disabilities across the ESA region.

The Regional Strategic Guidance is intended to be used as a guide to planning, programming and resourcing efforts to achieve improved access to SRHR by young people with disabilities.

This guidance document offers a strategic framework and processes to strengthen competency-based pre- and in-service training on adolescent health for health-care providers, as a contribution to achieving universal health coverage for all adolescents and youth in the region.

The Safeguard Young People Programme has been implemented by UNFPA and its regional and national partners since November 2013 in eight Southern African countries.