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Programme Priorities |
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Reproductive health, including family planning and sexual health Adolescent reproductive health Reducing maternal mortality Emergency assistance in refugee situations HIV/AIDS Population and development strategies Advocacy Women's empowerment and gender issues Strengthening programme effectiveness Decentralization National capacity-building Monitoring and evaluation Training Contraceptive requirements and logistics management needs Partnership with NGOs and civil society ICPD+5
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Following Executive Board decision 97/14, UNFPA initiated preparatory activities for the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, within the mandate of the Fund. Also, in accordance with decision 97/14, the proposal for an overall review and appraisal was submitted by the President of the Executive Board to the fifty-second session of the General Assembly, through the Economic and Social Council, for the consideration of the General Assembly and subsequent decision on the process and modalities. At the fifty-second session, by resolution 52/188, the General Assembly decided to, inter alia, convene a Special Session of the General Assembly from 30 June to 2 July 1999 for an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD and to constitute the thirty-second session of the Commission on Population and Development as the preparatory committee for the Special Session. It was further decided that the comprehensive report of the Secretary-General should also contain an overall assessment of the progress achieved and constraints faced in the implementation of the Programme of Action, as well as recommendations for the future, and that at the fifty-third session of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General would submit a progress report on the preparations for the Special Session. UNFPA will organize a series of roundtables and technical meetings between April and November 1998. These informal meetings will review programme experience at national and international levels. Participants will include selected programme implementors, including NGOs, and national and international experts. All United Nations Regional Commissions are planning to review progress achieved in implementing the ICPD Programme of Action and, to this end, ministerial and technical meetings have been scheduled for each region. An International Forum, to be attended by more than 120 countries, is planned in February 1999, in the Netherlands, with participation from governments, civil society, including NGOs, and other international organizations working in population and development. Support from private foundations, bilateral donors and national governments is being sought to facilitate these activities, including the International Forum. Inclusive and active participation by all entities of the United Nations system is encouraged in all of the preparatory activities leading to the General Assembly Special Session on ICPD+5. To that end, UNFPA has held consultations with the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Information is being shared formally within the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) and more informally through regular inter-agency briefings convened by UNFPA. Similarly, information has also been shared with NGOs through briefings and other communications. Regular updates of information on the preparations for events associated with ICPD+5 can be found on the Internet at the Fund's website (http://www.unfpa.org/ICPD/ICPD.HTM). Documentation for the International Forum will be provided by the quinquennial review, as well as through a synthesis of the findings and results of the roundtables, technical meetings and regional meetings, with an emphasis on analysis of operational experience in implementing the Programme of Action at the country level. The four roundtables planned in 1998 are: (a) adolescent sexual and reproductive health (April, New York); (b) reproductive rights and implementation of reproductive health programmes, including women's empowerment, male involvement and human rights (Kampala, Uganda, June); (c) partnership with civil society in implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (Dhaka, Bangladesh, July); and (d) population and macro-economic linkages (Bellagio, Italy, November). The three technical meetings planned in 1998 are: (a) a technical symposium on international migration and development (The Hague, Netherlands, 29 June-3 July); (b) a technical meeting on reproductive health services in crisis situations (September, venue to be confirmed); and (c) a technical meeting on population ageing (October, venue to be confirmed).
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