{"id":13958,"date":"2026-07-14T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13958"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:08:23","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><b>United Nations Population Fund Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new United Nations Population Fund survey of young adults finds that most Indians still want children, but economic pressure and gender inequality are pushing the decision further and further away.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About United Nations Population Fund<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>international development agency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> created in 1967 to support the execution of projects and programmes in the area of <\/span><b>population and sexual and reproductive health.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Background<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was originally called the <\/span><b>United Nations Fund for Population Activities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1987, it was officially renamed as the <\/span><b>United Nations Population Fund<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but the original <\/span><b>abbreviation UNFPA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (United Nations Fund for Population Activities) was retained.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>not directly responsible for the collection of primary statistics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; it plays an important role in the technical and financial support of statistical activities in countries, such as population censuses and thematic surveys etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Funding:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is <\/span><b>entirely supported by voluntary contributions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of donor governments, intergovernmental organizations, the <\/span><b>private sector and foundations and individuals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, not by the United Nations regular budget.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It funds assistance, research, and advocacy programs in three major areas:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Reproductive health<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including family planning, safe motherhood, and the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>population problems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of developed and developing countries and possible strategies for addressing them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Issues related to the status of women<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including the gender gap in education.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UNFPA receives overall policy guidance from the <\/span><b>General Assembly and <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/united-nations-economic-and-social-council\/\" target=\"_blank\">Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Headquarters:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> New York.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/india.un.org\/en\/319179-new-unfpa-global-survey-finds-young-indians-remain-optimistic-about-future-while\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Population Fund is an international development agency created in 1967 to support the execution of projects and programmes in the area of population and sexual and reproductive health.<\/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":[792],"class_list":["post-13958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-united-nations-population-fund","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113139,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958\/revisions\/113139"}],"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}]}}