Sana'a May 14

  The Ministry of Endowments & Guidance (MoEG) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) signed a memorandum of understanding and work plan on May 14, 2008, at the Ministry premises. According to the work plan, the MoEG will conduct one-week religious campaign during June in the governorates targeted by UNFPA’s new Country Programme Cycle activities. These governorates are: Aden, Hadramout, Ibb, Al-Mahweet, Hajah, and Hodeidah. During the campaigns, the mosque preachers, male and female religious guides, and health educators will conduct awareness-raising activities among different groups on the importance of family planning from the perspectives of religion and health, including birth spacing for the sake of health of the mother and newborn and correcting any religious or health misconceptions about this issue.

The campaign will begin with a two-day workshop in which participants will receive training on how to deliver the campaign’s religious and health messages to members of local communities in the targeted governorates. Media activities for raising awareness will be associated with these religious activities in order to unify religious and information messages on this important family health issue.

 It is noteworthy that this campaign is being carried out in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health and Population and the National Population Council. This activity is a continuation of the activities carried out by the MoEG over the course of the UNFPA current and former programmes.  H.E Judge Hammoud Al-Hetar, the Minister of the MoEG, and Mr. Hans Obdeijn, the UNFPA representative, signed the plan.

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