Supported by Pathfinder International, the U.S. Speaking at the Wilson Center on June 21, Pamela Onduso, a senior technical advisor on youth advocacy and partnership at Pathfinder International Kenya, defined PHE as “an integrated approach to improve access to health services, especially family planning and sexual and reproductive health, while at the same time helping communities to manage natural resources and conserve the critical ecosystems on which they depend.” One such approach is known as population, health, and environment, or PHE. “It is through partnerships and through innovation that we can really start to make use and really incentivize these new frameworks that we have agreed to.” Paula Caballero, global practice director for the environment and natural resources at the World Bank, urged institutions to seek out new ways of doing development, from food security to global health efforts. But how will governments, NGOs, and other organizations go about actually accomplishing them over the next 15 years? They were agreed to last year by governments at the United Nations and cover developing and developed countries alike. ![]() Pathfinder supports the elimination of gender discrimination and inequality through gender asynchronous and gender-transformative approaches.The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an ambitious framework for reducing poverty and improving the lives of billions of people. Pathfinder uses social and behavior change approaches to eliminate stigma for rights-based health and support quality family planning for all through community dialogues, target group discussions, and digital platforms. Pathfinder accelerates universal, right-based, and equitable access to quality, integrated HIV prevention, care, and treatment services. Pathfinder promotes innovative approaches and adoption of new technologies to increase the number of young people able to make healthy decisions, exercise their rights, and experience positive sexual and reproductive health outcomes. And, Pathfinder strengthens national and sub-national family planning programs to reduce inequitable access and unmet need for contraception. Pathfinder works to incorporate adolescent-friendly service delivery into existing sexual and reproductive health services, including early entry points, such as HPV vaccination. Strengthen health centers and support community health workers, so more people in more places can get holistic services they need, from contraception and maternal care to nutrition and sanitation. Pathfinder has a long history of strategic partnership and close collaboration with international, national, county governments, local organizations, and communities to advance quality reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health (RMNCAH) care family planning and cervical cancer prevention services women-led climate resilience and HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment. Pathfinder’s rich history in Kenya is marked by our conviction of going where others will not and responding to the urgent reproductive health needs of some of the country’s most underserved people to ensure a country where everyone has access to contraception, there are zero new HIV infections, no woman dies from preventable pregnancy-related complications, and everyone leads a healthy sexual and reproductive life.
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