UNFPA Thailand
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) started its programme of assistance to Thailand in 1971. Over the past years, UNFPA has worked with the Royal Thai Government, non-government organizations, academic and civil society, with the major focus on reproductive health and population and development. See video of UNFPA work in Thailand for the past 40 years here. The key components of the current programme include:
Ensuring every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s capacity is fullfilled
UNFPA Thailand promotes adolescent reproductive health via our work in the policy advocacy for the enactment of the Act to prevent and solve teenage pregnancy in Thailand. Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) for both in and out-of-school adolescents is the tool that UNFPA advocates to promote the right-based national polices, strengthening curricula, sharing knowledge with teachers and students and interacting with the general public, including private sector, on giving youth the access to empirical science-based health knowledge.
UNFPA’s work on CSE in the community, click here.
UNFPA’s work with private sector in promoting CSE, click here.
Enhancing Population Development Capacity
UNFPA Thailand enhances capacity building, sharing experiences and good practice of maternal health throughout the entire region, especially Bhutan, Lao, Cambodia, under the South-South cooperation (SSC) initiative with the Royal Thai Government. See more here.
Responding to Emerging Challenges of Population Ageing
Concerted efforts amongst relevant government organizations, NGOs, and stakeholders at the national level (and pilot provinces) have made progress in addressing Thailand’s rapidly ageing population. Key strategies include policy advocacy and awareness raising; social and economic security; health care and services; enhancing participation in community life; and empowerment of older persons.
UNFPA Thailand works with the National Economic and Social Development Board in developing National Transfer Accounts (NTA) to understand the generational economy to prepare the country to fully enter ageing society by 2020. See more here.
Supporting SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
The Sustainable Development Goals are ambitious, and they will require enormous efforts across countries, continents, industries and disciplines – but they are achievable.
UNFPA Thailand is ready to support the Royal Thai Government, partners and other UN agencies to directly tackle many of these goals – in particular Goal 3 on health, Goal 4 on education and Goal 5 on gender equality – and contributes in a variety of ways to achieving many of the rest. See more here.
