United Nations Population Fund

United Nations Population Fund UNFPA's mandate is to build the knowledge and the capacity to respond to needs in population and family planning, to promote awareness of population problems in both developed and developing countries and possible strategies to deal with these problems, to assist developing countries, at their request, in dealing with their population problems, in the forms and means best suited to the individual country's needs and to play a leading role in the United Nations System in promoting population programmes, and to coordinate projects supported by the Fund.