Building Community
Capacity to Improve the Sexual and Reproductive
Health Rights of Young Women in Mexico
Agency Funded: United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA)
Amount Funded: $3,513,053 over 60 months
Approved: November 2001
Through UNFPA, the Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and IMIFAP
(Instituto Mexicano de Investigacion de Familia
y Poblacion), this project provides a program
of integral family and community development to
160,000 of the most marginalized members of both
mestizo and indigenous populations in the state
of Hidalgo. It incorporates health and education
systems as well as the mass media to create a
model for application in other parts of Mexico
and Latin America. UN Foundation involvement has
served as a catalyst for $6.5 million in additional
funding from the Government of Mexico in support
of this project.
To Learn More: Family
Health International
Family Health International (FHI) works to improve
reproductive health around the world, with an
emphasis on developing countries. The FHI website
provides information on their prevention projects,
and posts more than 400 full-text articles on
HIV/AIDS prevention. The site and its contents
are available in English, Arabic, French, Russian
and Spanish.
How you can help: This grant is only one example of the
UN Foundation's commitment to improving the lives
and quality of reproductive services for women
and girls around the world. Significant and costly
challenges lie ahead in the next decade and the
UN Foundation can use your help to guarantee that
women and population issues will receive necessary
funding. Please help make a difference by making
a contribution to help fund the women and population
causes supported by the UN Foundation.
