Ashgabat, June 12, 2025 – United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Turkmenistan held a coordination council meeting at the UN building in Ashgabat. The purpose of this meeting was to conduct a quantitative assessment of resources allocated for reproductive health care in reproductive health offices in Ashgabat city and the velayats, as well as to explore possibilities for their mutual redistribution and to develop a procurement plan for replenishing necessary reproductive health commodities for women at risk.
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UNFPA Held Coordination Meeting on Ensuring Timely Supplies of Women's Reproductive Health Commodities
12 June 2025
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UNFPA Deputy Regional Director's Visit to Turkmenistan
16 May 2025
May 16, 2025 – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Deputy Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Mr. Klaus Beck, was on a mission to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, from May 12-16, 2025. During the mission, Mr. Beck participated in the Central Asia Climate Change Conference (CACCC) 2025 and engaged in meetings with national and development partners to advance UNFPA's agenda on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality, and youth empowerment.
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Ms. Chinwe Ogbonna
Ms. Chinwe Ogbonna has officially assumed her role as UNFPA Representative for Kazakhstan, and Country Director for Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan on January 27, 2025.
Ms.Ogbonna brings more than 20 years of global, regional, and national level experience in adaptive leadership, intergovernmental relations and strategic partnerships for scaled results. Through evidence-based strategies guided by implementation science and futures thinking, she provides effective management for responsive organizational actions for present and future generations. She champions the urgency to achieve pace and scale of tailored multi-sectoral investments to ensure Rights and Choices for women, adolescent girls and young people.
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UNFPA Volunteers Participate in Debates and Sports Events in Ashgabat
31 October 2024
Every day, millions of people around the world volunteer, helping their communities and contributing to solutions for important issues, playing a key role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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UNFPA held a Сonsultative Meeting with National Partners on the Development of the Country Programme for 2026-2030
17 October 2024
October 16, 2024, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan - The United Nations Populatio
ICPD & SDGs
Two mutually reinforcing development blueprints - the Programme of Action agreed to at the International Conference on Population and Development, along with the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (derived from Sustainable Development Summit) - guide UNFPA in its efforts to improve lives, support reproductive health and rights, and advance gender equality.
UNFPA in Turkmenistan
In Turkmenistan, UNFPA continues to maximize on almost 30 years of partnership with the Government so that women, girls and men especially those vulnerable exercise their rights to a life of health, equal opportunity and choices.
Key Results
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
Supply chain management strategy
A costed supply chain management strategy was in place, taking into account the UNFPA/WHO implementation guide on ensuring rights-based contraceptive delivery
Rights of marginalized groups
Intervention models or strategies to empower marginalized and excluded groups to exercise their reproductive rights were rolled out
Life skills programmes for girls
3000Marginalized girls were reached with health, social and economic asset-building programmes
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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Country Representative
Ms. Chinwe Ogbonna
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Situation Analysis on Adolescents and Youth in Turkmenistan for sustainable development
27 June 2024
From March to June 2024, the UNFPA Office, together with other UN agencies in Turkmenistan, organized a comprehensive analysis of the situation of adolescents and youth in Turkmenistan. This analysis aimed at evaluation of the current Cooperation Framework for Sustainable Development between Turkmenistan and the UN for 2021-2025, and development of the upcoming Cooperation Framework for 2026-2030.
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Cooperation of UNFPA with the Ombudsperson’s Office to support in implementation of its gender justice and reproductive health mandate
14 October 2023
On 9-13 October, 2023 the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Ombudsperson's Office convened a five-day workshop on strengthening the capacity of the Ombudsperson’s Office in advancing gender equality, reproductive health, and reproductive rights agenda across all areas of the work of the Office.
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UNFPA and the State Committee on Physical Culture and Sports conducted joint activities to raise awareness of gender equality among youth
09 December 2023
From December 1 to 9, UNFPA and the State Committee on Physical Culture and Sports of Turkmenistan held working meetings with coordinators and volunteers of an initiative to develop volunteerism and involvement of men in promoting healthy lifestyles, physical education, sports, as well as to promote gender equality among young people and, in particular, among young men.
