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About us

About us

About us

The UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, promotes gender equality, reproductive health, youth empowerment. The organization was created in 1969, the same year the UN General Assembly declared “parents have the exclusive right to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children”. Together with partners, UNFPA works in 150 countries, and in Ukraine since 1997.

Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

Principles:

We lead with a purpose

We promote safety and dignity

We advance equality

We leave no one behind
 

Work in Ukraine

UNFPA in Ukraine works for:

creating conditions in which every young person can fulfill the potential, lead a healthy lifestyle, know their reproductive rights and take an active social life;

conducting sexual and reproductive health campaigns to improve access to health and care services and improve its quality, especially for young people;

combating gender stereotypes in society (through the media, compulsory education for civil servants on gender mainstreaming, the improvement of national gender policy and anti-discrimination expertise of school textbooks);

providing information and services to gender-based violence survivors through the creation of crisis centers, supporting the work of mobile teams of psycho-social and support, providing expert support and raising general awareness in society.

Key Results

Ukraine

Health services for sexual violence survivors

Essential health services were provided for survivors of sexual violence by at least 60 per cent of public health facilities

Ukraine

Gender-based violence platform

A national mechanism to engage multiple stakeholders to prevent and address gender-based violence was in place

Ukraine

Advocacy platforms against harmful social norms

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Communities developed advocacy platforms to eliminate discriminatory gender and sociocultural norms which affect women and girls

What we do

UNFPA works in more than 150 countries and territories that are home to the vast majority of the world’s people. Its mission: to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

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UNFPA Representative to Ukraine

UNFPA Representative to Ukraine

Jacqueline Mahon

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Jacqueline Mahon joined the UNFPA Ukraine Country Office as UNFPA Resident Representative on April 29, 2025. A national of Ireland, Jacqueline is a seasoned development professional with over 30 years of experience spanning the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. She has worked with UNFPA at both global and country levels, most recently serving as the organization's Principal Advisor for International Development Finance at UNFPA’s North America Representation Office in Washington, DC. In that role, she led efforts to deepen collaboration with the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund, and other key international financial institutions. Prior to this, she was UNFPA’s Representative in the United Republic of Tanzania. Jacqueline brings a unique combination of thought leadership, high-level policy engagement, political acumen, and emotional intelligence. Her career spans a wide range of organizations, including government, civil society, academia, the UN, and international financial institutions. Notable among these are the Aga Khan Foundation, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) UK (as a fellow), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and the World Bank Group.
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