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Article from mms-bulletin:
Bulletin No. 113, August 2009
25 Tips for Development Practitioners
Culturally sensitive approaches
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UNFPA)
"In our development efforts in poor communities, we need to be able to work with people at their own level and to find common ground. We may not believe in what they do, we may not agree with them, but we need to have the compassion and the commitment to understand them and to support them as they translate universal principles into their own codes, messages and ways of doing things. Human rights is our frame of reference. And we use culturally sensitive approaches to promote human rights in ways that people can identify with and can internalize in the context of their own lives."
Bulletin No. 100, April 2006
Culture matters
Negotiating sexual and reproductive health
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Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC ,
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institut (Swiss TPH),
UNFPA)
Kate Molesworth
| The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other organisations working to achieve the goal of universal access to reproductive health have to negotiate highly sensitive and embedded beliefs and practices. In certain contexts challenging female genital cutting, child marriage and instituting gender equity, access to contraception, sexual and reproductive health and information are highly contentious issues. Rather than perceiving cultural perspectives to constrain positive social change, UNFPA’s Culture Matters approach illustrates how development actors might work sensitively with the dynamics of culture to enhance the achievement of development objectives and human rights within a variety of social, cultural and spiritual settings.
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aidsfocus.ch
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This Position Statement by WHO, UNAIDS and UNFPA provides the basis for condom promotion, documenting why condoms continue to be a critical element in comprehensive and sustainable approaches to HIV prevention and care. Condom use is a critical element in a comprehensive, effective and sustainable approach to HIV prevention and treatment. Prevention is the mainstay of the response to AIDS.
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aidsfocus.ch
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This Position Statement by WHO, UNAIDS and UNFPA provides the basis for condom promotion, documenting why condoms continue to be a critical element in comprehensive and sustainable approaches to HIV prevention and care. Condom use is a critical element in a comprehensive, effective and sustainable approach to HIV prevention and treatment. Prevention is the mainstay of the response to AIDS.
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Drumbeat
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This United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) Humanitarian Response manual discusses reproductive health (RH) services for populations who are refugees living in emergency situations. The manual is written from the perspective of a multi-sectoral integrated approach that involves the refugee community in the development of services. Information, education, and communication (IEC) programmes are highlighted ... 
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Drumbeat
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This United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) Humanitarian Response manual discusses reproductive health (RH) services for populations who are refugees living in emergency situations. The manual is written from the perspective of a multi-sectoral integrated approach that involves the refugee community in the development of services. Information, education, and communication (IEC) programmes are highlighted ...
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Ten years into the new era opened by the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, the quality and reach of family planning programmes have improved, safe motherhood and HIV prevention efforts are being scaled up, and governments embrace the ICPD Programme of Action as an essential blueprint for realizing development goals. (UNFPA, October 2004)