Subject: Fwd: Sharing new data and studies on Women's Decision Making & Laws on SRHR (SDG 5.6)
From: Lela Bakradze <[email-masked]>
To: Ana Kvernadze <[email-masked]>
Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>, George Mataradze <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 07:49:07 +0000

ძვირფასო ანა,

მივიღეთ VNR ანგარიში და აუცილებლად წავიკითხავთ და მოგაწვდით უკუ-კავშირს.

ამჯერად გიგზავნით ინფორმაციას სტატისტიკური დანართის შესახებ  - ინდიკატორ 5.6.2-თან დაკავშირებით.

ამ ინდიკატორის შესახებ ინფორმაცია მოგროვდა გაეროს წევრი სახელმწიფოებიდან UN Inquiry საშუალებით; (the 12th UN Inquiry on Population and Development was sent to all 193 Member States, with the deadline In February 2019). საქართველოში ინფორმაციის მოძიების და მიწოდების კოორდინაცია გასწია საგარეო საქმეთა სამინისტრომ.

თანდართული ანგარიში აჯამებს ამ ინფორმაციას და აქ საქართველოს შესახებ ინფორმაციასაც ნახავთ, რაც შეიძლება აისახოს ანგარიშში და სტატისტიკურ ნაწილში.

გულთბილი მოკითხვებით,

ლელა

Ms. Lela Bakradze

Acting Head of Office

UNFPA Country Office in Georgia
O: + 995 32 225 11 26 (ext 142); M: +995 591174174
Skype: lelabakradze; Web: georgia.unfpa.org; Facebook: UNFPA.Georgia; Twitter: UNFPAGeorgia

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From: Technical Division <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 9:33 PM
Subject: Sharing new data and studies on Women's Decision Making & Laws on SRHR (SDG 5.6)
To: ALL STAFF <[email-masked]>

This message is from Benoit Kalasa, Director, Technical Division

Dear Colleagues,

The Technical Division
has been working in collaboration with the UN, sister Agencies and several
Country Offices to define standards to measure women's decision making and
legislation on SRHR as part of our contribution to the SDG 5 - Gender Equality,
and more specifically its target 5.6: Achieving Universal Access to
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights.

SDG Indicators 5.6.1 and
5.6.2., for which UNFPA is custodian, measure the legal and regulatory frameworks for SRHR, as well as women’s reproductive
autonomy. Together they provide a comprehensive picture of SRHR, as they
allow us to see whether a country has a positive enabling legal and normative
frameworks and whether these provisions go the last mile and effectively
empower all women and girls.

The data and research
attached provide countries with an important evidence-based argument to
advocate for Rights and Choices for All, and we
highlight the most important below:

Laws and Regulations on
Full and Equal Access to SRHR (SDG 5.6.2): to
measure this indicator, data is available for 107 countries, which
are broken down by SRHR area outlined below:

Country Offices can use
the findings to see where laws are strong; in these cases, we might need to
focus on implementation. In countries where laws are absent or legal
restrictions exist - such as requirements for third party consent – the data
can provide you with insights on where advocacy and policy action is required
for repealing laws that interfere with full and equal access.

Women’s Decision Making
on SRHR (SDG 5.6.1): to measure this indicator, data have been
collected since 2018, with 57 countries reporting as of today.
The key finding of this research is that, based on the available data, only
55% of women are able to make SRHR decisions.

Country Offices can use
the global, regional, and national data to analyze women’s decision making on
health care, use of contraceptives, and ability to say no to sex (disaggregated
by geographic location, age, level of education, household wealth, and place of
residence).

To complement this
picture, we have conducted an action-oriented research to better
understand what determines’ women’s decision making, how countries have
successfully supported women’s reproductive autonomy, and the implications for
our work. The findings indicate what determines women's ability to decide
(knowledge, position of the husband in the decision-making process,
communication between partners/spouses, gender norms,
access/affordability/acceptability to health services among others). The issue
brief includes important insights along with interventions with positive
impact, who is being left behind and key recommendations going forward.

We want to warmly thank
all the regional and country offices for actively collaborating with their
National Statistical Offices to include SDG 5.6.1 questions in national
surveys, and ensuring such a high reporting number of countries for SDG 5.6.2.
This has been the foundation for the work and we hope the findings will help
you advance your work and policy dialogue. A special note of thanks to the
COs in Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal and Uganda for supporting the action-oriented
research.

At the global level, the data and findings are
being disseminated through regular engagements and a number of debates and
events ranging from the UN Statistical Commission, Generational Equality Forum and
the HLPF. At country and regional levels, there may be
several opportunities to disseminate these data and research to inform your
work and of your partners and governments. A set of social media messages and website links will soon be available for your further dissemination.

If you have any questions or comments, please
feel free to get in touch with Emilie Filmer-Wilson (Gender & Human Rights
Branch/TD: [email-masked]) and Mengjia Liang (Population and Development
Branch/TD: [email-masked]).

Thank you and kind regards, Benoit