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Proposed Programme. 42. The Government, with the participation of the UNFPA Country Office, other United Nations Organizations, Donors/Development Partners, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), including Traditional and Religious Leaders (TRLs) formulated the proposed programme with technical backstopping from the UNFPA SRO and ARO in Senegal and Johannesburg respectively, and National and International Consultants who carried out the Mid-Term Reviews and End-Evaluation of the Fourth Country Programme. Country Programme Linkages: UNFPA Strategic Plan (2012-2013); UN Transitional Joint Vision (2013-2014); Agenda for Prosperity (2013-2017) and the Country Programme Document (CPD) Outcomes. 43. The goal of this programme is to contribute to the “achievement of universal access to sexual and reproductive health, promote reproductive rights and reduce maternal mortality and morbidity” as defined in the UNFPA Strategic Plan (2012-2013). These efforts will be guided by an understanding of population dynamics, human rights and gender equality, driven by country needs and tailored to the country context in order to empower and improve the lives of underserved populations, especially women, youths and adolescents. 44. In working towards the above goal (which addresses UNFPA’s current mandate), as well as the Government’s national Agenda for Prosperity, the new strategic direction of 45. Special attention will be paid to ensuring that adolescents and young people have the information, services and resources they need to achieve their full potential, as well as their sexual and reproductive rights. The programmatic interventions will equally address the RH needs of women in order to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. This approach will be exemplified by an integrated multi-sectoral partnership, and identifying key priorities for achieving tangible results within the limited timeframe and resources. 46. Overall, the country programme is aligned with two pillars of the Government’s Agenda for Prosperity: (a) Pillar 1 – Strengthening the Enabling Environment, and (b) Pillar 3 – Accelerating Millennium Development Goals for Human Development. It also addresses related issues in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the Millennium Development Goals. 47. The programme contributes to three of the seven clusters of the Transitional United Nations Joint Vision (UNJV) for Sierra Leone, 2013-2014. These are: (a) Support to Good Governance; (b) Social Protection, Child Protection, Gender and Human Rights; and (c) Health and Nutrition. Together, these clusters will strengthen the enabling environment and accelerate attainment of the MDGs for human development. 48. Thus, the main thrust of the current CPAP and its implementation will be driven by the new UNFPA strategic direction as outlined in the Business Plan (2012-2013) and Strategic Plan (2011-2013). The core strategy will focus on how to integrate Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH) and Women’s Reproductive Health (WRH) into the country’s development process. 49. The programme will also infuse into its design and implementation frameworks an innovative advocacy and communications strategy for improved UNFPA visibility and resource mobilization capacity. The centrality of the country programme is to ensure that stronger emphasis is placed on providing the Country Office (CO) with the tools and resources to strengthen delivery and ensure greater accountability for resources and results. 50. Thus, in view of the foregoing, the first outcome of the country programme addresses Maternal and Newborn Health and is defined as: “Increased access and utilization of quality maternal and newborn health services”. 5 The Cluster Approach is “an operational working arrangement” that aims at transforming organizational behaviour, by encouraging individual components (or clusters) to adopt an integrated approach in their interventions. This, in turn, enables them to collectively deliver more powerfully to achieve the ultimate organizational goal. The cluster approach must be country-driven, impact-oriented, transparent and accountable. 51. The second outcome of the country programme focuses on Family Planning, and is defined as: “Increased access to and utilization of quality family planning services for individuals and couples according to reproductive intensions”. 52. The third outcome of the country programme focuses on Young People’s

Proposed Programme. 4222. The Governmentproposed programme is aligned with national development priorities, the United Nations Development Assistance Framework 2013-2017 and the UNFPA Strategic Plan. It builds on lessons learned from the evaluation of the previous programme. The Programme adopts a human rights based and participatory approaches. The programme will focus on joint programming with a number of United Nations organizations, including UN Women, UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, UNHCR, and UNV, to ensure synergies and complementarities, optimize utilization of resources, respond to humanitarian needs and address culturally sensitive issues. 23. UNFPA will work on the following areas of the 2013-2017 UNDAF: (a) Poverty alleviation through Pro-Poor Growth and Equity; (b) Quality Basic Services, (c) Democratic Governance through Decentralization, Civic Engagement and Human Rights. 24. UNFPA’s 9th Cycle Country Program contributes to the following three UNDAF outcomes: i) Women in reproductive age, men and young people have increased access to quality FP/RH services, ii) National institutions and CSOs are strengthened to further protect, respect and fulfil Human Rights in line with Egypt’s international commitments, with special focus on women, children, disabled, refugees, the aged and migrants, iii) The voice, leadership, civic engagement and political participation of the UNFPA Country Office, other United Nations Organizations, Donors/Development Partners, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) women and Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), including Traditional young people are visible and Religious Leaders (TRLs) formulated the proposed programme with technical backstopping from the UNFPA SRO and ARO effective in Senegal and Johannesburg respectively, and National and International Consultants who carried out the Mid-Term Reviews and End-Evaluation of the Fourth Country Programme. Country Programme Linkages: UNFPA Strategic Plan (2012-2013); UN Transitional Joint Vision (2013-2014); Agenda for Prosperity (2013-2017) and the Country Programme Document (CPD) Outcomespublic spheres. 4325. The goal of this programme is seeks to contribute to accelerate the “achievement of universal access to reproductive health services through the reduction of inequities in accessing safe deliveries, and family planning services and to assist Egypt to meet the goals of MDG 5a around maternal health. Systems enhancement, advocacy and evidence based policy dialogue will be conducted at the central level, while capacity development and community-based interventions will focus on Assiut and Sohag. The program has three outputs: 26. Access to sexual and reproductive healthhealth services for young people (a) integrating youth friendly reproductive health counselling and services in selected primary health care units to enable young people to make informed health choices, (b) empowering young people through support to institutions as well as social media to raise their awareness about reproductive health and gender issues and to promote their civic engagement (c) building capacity of the youth peer education network to engage young people in decision-making and advocacy, (d) developing and implementing a behaviour change communication strategy at the community level to induce demand for reproductive health services, (e) conducting targeted advocacy campaigns to increase utilization of HIV voluntary counseling and testing services in different venues. Key interventions under this output include:  Support establishment of 30 model urban primary healthcare units redesigned and refurbished to become youth friendly. In that process, a training curriculum will developed for service providers, a capacity building program will be designed and implemented, in addition of the application of a monitoring system to ensure adequacy of services provided to young people.  Create linkages between youth civic engagement in Egypt and youth sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, in line with UNFPA regional youth strategy. To be achieved through building capacities of youth centres, mainly in Assiut and Sohag, with the active engagement of civil society, to accommodate the needs of young people by providing a safe space where young people can work on self-development, peer development and community development.  Develop a social media strategy (inclusive of internet platforms, mobile applications and accessibility to other interactive platforms) with the aim of empowering young people through providing them with adequate information on reproductive health and rights and reduce maternal mortality linking them to volunteering and morbidity” as defined capacity building opportunities, in addition to supporting career counselling.  Support the UNFPA Strategic Plan Youth Peer Education Network (2012Y-2013). These efforts will be guided by an understanding of population dynamics, human rights and gender equality, driven by country needs and tailored to the country context in order to empower and improve the lives of underserved populations, especially women, youths and adolescents. 44. In working towards the above goal (which addresses UNFPA’s current mandate)PEER) geographical expansion, as well as the Government’s national Agenda for Prosperityas, the new strategic direction of 45extension of membership and outreach channels. Special attention To be achieved through; endorsing the membership of additional NGOs implementing standards for peer education and using peer education methodology for youth behavioral change in reproductive health and civic engagement, and support building an edutainment component to the Y-PEER network providing alternative channels and approaches for behavioral change among young people.  Support the development of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) strategy for married couples to make informed decisions to achieve healthy pregnancy outcomes. An assessment will be paid conducted to ensuring understand the role of socio-cultural influences, where the findings will be used to inform the development of the BCC strategy. The aim is to promote Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) education and services as a family planning intervention, and to clarify to targeted groups that adolescents long-acting methods are reversible and highly effective for spacing purpose. A prospective impact evaluation (IE) is planned to be conducted to measure the true impact of the intervention. The pilot will cover a limited number of communities to be scaled up based on the IE results.  Support the provision of comprehensive HIV prevention programs, including VCT services for key populations through NGOs and CBOs , in addition to capacity building of young people have to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ advocates for HIV prevention  Support MOHP to mainstream HIV prevention programs in selected interventions for vulnerable population This output aims to raise awareness and increase demand for reproductive health, family planning and VCT services among youth, women at the information, services and resources they need to achieve their full potential, as well as their sexual and reproductive rights. The programmatic interventions will equally address the RH needs of women in order to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. This approach will be exemplified by an integrated multi-sectoral partnershipage, and identifying key priorities for achieving tangible results within the limited timeframe and resourcesnew couples. 46. Overall, the country programme is aligned with two pillars of the Government’s Agenda for Prosperity: (a) Pillar 1 – Strengthening the Enabling Environment, and (b) Pillar 3 – Accelerating Millennium Development Goals for Human Development. It also addresses related issues in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the Millennium Development Goals. 47. The programme contributes to three of the seven clusters of the Transitional United Nations Joint Vision (UNJV) for Sierra Leone, 2013-2014. These are: (a) Support to Good Governance; (b) Social Protection, Child Protection, Gender and Human Rights; and (c) Health and Nutrition. Together, these clusters will strengthen the enabling environment and accelerate attainment of the MDGs for human development. 48. Thus, the main thrust of the current CPAP and its implementation will be driven by the new UNFPA strategic direction as outlined in the Business Plan (2012-2013) and Strategic Plan (2011-2013). The core strategy will focus on how to integrate Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH) and Women’s Reproductive Health (WRH) into the country’s development process. 49. The programme will also infuse into its design and implementation frameworks an innovative advocacy and communications strategy for improved UNFPA visibility and resource mobilization capacity. The centrality of the country programme is to ensure that stronger emphasis is placed on providing the Country Office (CO) with the tools and resources to strengthen delivery and ensure greater accountability for resources and results. 50. Thus, in view of the foregoing, the first outcome of the country programme addresses Maternal and Newborn Health and is defined as: “Increased access and utilization of quality maternal and newborn health services”. 5 The Cluster Approach is “an operational working arrangement” that aims at transforming organizational behaviour, by encouraging individual components (or clusters) to adopt an integrated approach in their interventions. This, in turn, enables them to collectively deliver more powerfully to achieve the ultimate organizational goal. The cluster approach must be country-driven, impact-oriented, transparent and accountable. 51. The second outcome of the country programme focuses on Family Planning, and is defined as: “Increased access to and utilization of quality family planning services for individuals and couples according to reproductive intensions”. 52. The third outcome of the country programme focuses on Young People’s