This is the communique which was generated during a meeting held on 13 August 2021 by the Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance and SRHR partners in Malawi, in which our Member Association -Family Planning Association of Malawi (FPAM) participated and contributed financially and technically. This was held on the sidelines of the 41st Southern African Development Community SADC Heads of States Summit.

Fané Zara, a Central African Republic (CAR) refugee who lives in Cameroon, was forced to leave her country because of conflict and is now a volunteer helping her community access sexual and reproductive health care thanks to support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and The Cameroon National Planning Association for Family Welfare (CAMNAFAW) our Member Association in Cameroon. The BMZ project provided sexual and reproductive health care to 317 000 people in Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Togo – 62% of whom were refugees or internally displaced people.

Happy Holidays from IPPF Africa Region.

Joyeuses fêtes et bonne année de la part du bureau Afrique d’IPPF.

The International Conference of Parliamentary Networks on Population and Development was held in Dakar, Senegal in November 2016, with one of the outcomes being the commitment by African Parliamentarians to support the implementation of the four pillars of the African Union road map; “Harnessing the Demographic Dividend through Investments in Youth”. The road map factors in the need to transform the potential of Africa’s large youth population into a demographic dividend, and focuses on four pillars that are critical to increasing investments in youth, driving change and positioning African countries on the path towards harnessing the demographic dividend. See attachment for the committments of the Dakar Declaration.

ENGLISH This Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) brief by IPPF Africa Region aims at providing a friendly overview of the SDGs as they relate to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and their significance in the context of socio-economic development of sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, this brief focuses on SRHR-related goals and targets, means of implementation (MoI), financing for development, monitoring & evaluation as well as accountability mechanisms. The brief attempts to identify the most obvious gaps and challenges and makes recommendations for IPPFAR Member Associations (MAs) and partners to ensure implementation of the SDGs, and improvement of SRHR at the national level. FRENCH Suite aux efforts et a l’engagement de l’IPPFAR de contribuer à la mise en œuvre des ODD, et d’être redevable, veuillez trouver ci-joint un briefing de l’IPPFAR sur les ODD. Cet expose vise à donner un aperçu facile des ODD lies a la Sante et aux Droits Sexuels et de la Reproduction (SDSR) et leur signification dans le contexte du développement socio-économique de l’Afrique subsaharienne. Ce bre f aperçu est ainsi centré sur les objectifs et les cibles liés à la SDSR, lesmoyens de mise en oeuvre (MdMO), le financement du développement (FdD), le suivi -évaluation (S-E) ainsi qu’aux mécanismes de redevabilité. En outre, ce document tente d’identifier les lacunes et des problèmes les plus évidents dans la formulation du programme de développement durable 2030 et formule des recommandations pour les Associations Membres (AM) et les partenaires de l’IPPFRA pour contribuer a la mise en œuvre des ODD et a améliorer la SDSR au niveau national.