{"id":13958,"date":"2025-06-11T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13958"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:57:16","slug":"what-is-unfpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-unfpa\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations Population Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>United Nations Population Fund Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)\u2019s 2025 State of World Population (SOWP) Report, titled, \u2018The Real Fertility Crisis\u2019, states that one in three adult Indians face unintended pregnancies, while 30% experience unfulfilled desire for having either more or fewer children.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0About United Nations Population Fund<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an international development agency created in 1968 to support the execution of projects and programmes in the area of population and sexual and reproductive health.<\/li>\n<li>Its mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, everychildbirth is safe and every young person&#8217;s potential is fulfilled.<\/li>\n<li>In 1987, it was\u00a0<strong>officially renamed as\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0<strong>United Nations Population Fund<\/strong>\u00a0but the original abbreviation UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) was retained.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>not directly responsible for the collection of primary statistics<\/strong>; it plays an important role in the technical and financial support of statistical activities in countries, such as population censuses and thematic surveys etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding:<\/strong>\u00a0It is\u00a0<strong>entirely supported by voluntary contributions<\/strong>\u00a0of donor governments, intergovernmental organizations, the private sector and foundations and individuals, not by the United Nations regular budget.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>funds assistance, research, and advocacy programs<\/strong>\u00a0in three major areas:<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reproductive health<\/strong>, including family planning, safe motherhood, and the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases,<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>population problems of developed and developing<\/strong><strong>countries<\/strong>\u00a0and possible strategies for addressing them.<\/li>\n<li>Issues related to the\u00a0<strong>status of women<\/strong>, including the gender gap in education.<\/li>\n<li>UNFPA assistance programs are undertaken only in response to government requests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:\u00a0<\/strong>New York<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>United Nations Population Fund FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the responsibility of UNFPA?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:\u00a0<\/strong>The goal of UNFPA is to ensure every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, every young person&#8217;s potential is fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:\u00a0<\/strong>What is the state of the world population report?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:\u00a0<\/strong>The State of World Population Report is UNFPA&#8217;s annual flagship publication, published since 1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indias-population-touches-146-billion-fertility-drops-below-replacement-rate-un-report\/article69677930.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), founded in 1968, supports global projects on population, sexual and reproductive health, and gender equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,792,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-13958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-united-nations-population-fund","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}