UNFPA

United Nations Population Fund

20
Activities on AI
28
Countries

About UNFPA

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

Activities by UNFPA

UNFPA
Big Data for Family Planning Inequalities Analysis (BiDaFPInAs)
Asia and the Pacific Philippines

This project captured social media conversations of Filipinos about family planning and developed a machine learning (ML) algorithm that converts those conversations to insights. These insights helped provide real-time data on awareness and perception of Filipinos about family planning to government planners.

Activity Type Research/Reports/AssessmentsAI Tools/Solutions
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SophiBot
Africa Kenya

Sophie Bot is an AI application that directly answers SRHR questions in a private and confidential way. It addresses poor SRH outcomes among young people attributed to inadequate access to comprehensive and correct information. The bot is available through Messenger, Telegram or Twitter.

Activity Type AI Tools/SolutionsAwareness/Advocacy
UNFPA
AMMA App - Period & Pregnancy Tracker
Asia and the Pacific BangladeshBhutanIndiaMaldivesNepalSri Lanka

Amma is an international mobile application that allows women and their families to have an informed, safe, and healthy pregnancy. With the AI technology created, the weight gain and abdominal growth of the expectant mother are controlled, and pregnant women can count the contractions they experience and send their data to their doctors.

Activity Type AI Tools/SolutionsResearch/Reports/AssessmentsAwareness/Advocacy
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TABOO
Latin America and the Caribbean Colombia

Taboo is a service that uses scraping techniques to obtain and visualize disaggregated data about myths and misconceptions of sexual and reproductive health contained in the genuine opinions of the Spanish-speaking population on Twitter. This information is used to make better decisions when approaching citizens with new actions and strategies that seek behavioral changes.

Activity Type AI Tools/SolutionsResearch/Reports/AssessmentsTechnical assistance