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Social Services Should be Provided to Urban Residential Population

Urbanization is a process where population move from rural to urban areas and where proportion of urban population, industrial structure, lifestyles of the people, living quality and rural development constantly change and progress. Urbanization of people is the core of urbanization.

Healthy urbanization is a comprehensive devel- opment process that centers on urbanization of people to promote coordinated development of population urbanization, economy urbanization, land urbanization, society urbanization and urbanization of social services. Healthy urbanization requires that the process of urbanization fit the economic development level and coordinate with resources, environment, rural construction and provision of social services.

 

 

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The State of World Population 2014

Our world is home to 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24, and the youth population is growing fastest in the poorest nations. Within this generation are 600 million adolescent girls with specific needs, challenges and aspirations for the future. 

 

 

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Executive Summary of The State of the World's Midwifery 2014

The State of the World’s Midwifery (SoWMy) 2014: A Universal Pathway. A Woman’s Right to Health takes its inspiration from the United Nations Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child initiative and his call to action in September 2013 to do everything possible to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and work towards the development and adoption of a post-2015 agenda based on the principle of universality. 

 

 

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UNFPA China Annual Report 2014

Throughout 2014, UNFPA China continued to work with its partners in the areas of population and development, reproductive health, youth and gender equality, primarily focusing on evidence-based advocacy, policy dialogue and advisory services in these areas. Efforts were also strengthened in communication, partnership building and resource mobilization, which have yielded encouraging results, demonstrating great potential for further expansion in these areas to support the overall goals of UNFPA’s assistance in China. For instance, UNFPA China’s presence on the Chinese social media platform Weibo has evolved into an effective venue to engage young people to act on promoting healthy norms and innovations to promote sexual and reproductive health messages among their peers. 

 

 

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The State of the World's Midwifery 2014: A Universal Pathway, A Woman's Right to Health

The State of the World’s Midwifery (SoWMy) 2014: A Universal Pathway. A Woman’s Right to Health takes its inspiration from the United Nations Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child initiative and his call to action in September 2013 to do everything possible to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and work towards the development and adoption of a post-2015 agenda based on the principle of universality. 

 

 

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2014 Statistics on Women and Children in China

Statistics on Women and Children in China 2014 is a comprehensive statistical annual focusing on current situation of women and children in China, which is first publicly published in 2014. This publication compiles relevant statistics of 2013 and historical data of major years since 2000. There are eleven chapters in this book, including Economy and Population, Health, Education, Employment and Social Security, Social Service, Social Participation, Science and Technology, Sports, Legal Protection, Society and Environment and Statistics by Province. 

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Hard Struggles in Times of Change: A Qualitative Study on Masculinities and Gender-based Violence in Contemporary China

The research on GBV through the lenses of masculinity is scarce. This qualitative research, supported by UNFPA China and Partners for Prevention, was undertaken as part of the Asia-Pacific regional study on GBV – the UN Multicountry Study on Men and Violence. It aims to understand the links between the dominant notions of masculinity (‘what it means to be a man’) and the GBV occurrence in China. The qualitative ndings complement data generated from the quantitative research and contribute to building a comprehensive evidence base for effective programming and advocacy to eliminate GBV in China. 

 

 

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Psychosocial Support to Wenchuan Earthquake Survivors Project Core Information Cards

The China Ministry of Health (MOH) and United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Project of Psychological Support to Survivors of the Wenchuan Earthquake lasted for one year from the 1st of January till 31st of December, 2009.

As a part of the Project, core information cards were developed through a series of community trainings and were pre-tested by a team of national experts. The end-users of the core information cards are trained community and village managers woking in health, the Women’s Federation, civil affairs, aging and other areas.

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Research on Gender-based Violence and Masculinities in China : Quantitative Findings

This study was led by UNFPA China with technical support from Partners for Prevention (P4P), a UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV Asia-Pacific Regional Joint Programme for Gender-based Violence Prevention. The study is part of P4P’s Asia and the Pacific regional research project, UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence: Understanding gender, masculinities and power to prevent gender-based violence (GBV), which is being conducted in six countries in the Asia- Pacific region. 

 

 

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Executive Summay of Hard Struggles in Times of Change

This qualitative report, Hard Struggles in Times of Change: A Qualitative Study on Masculinities and Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary China, is part of the UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific, a regional study on masculinities and gender-based violence coordinated by Partners for Prevention (P4P), a UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV Asia-Pacific regional joint programme for gender-based violence prevention. The qualitative study aims to look in-depth at individual men and women’s life histories to understand how they may have impacted on their gender practices and gender beliefs today in relation to gender-based violence in contemporary China.This study also aims to understand the trajectory of expression of (counter) hegemonic practices of masculinities and femininities across and throughout men and women’s lives, reflecting acceptance or rejection of violence in society.

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