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(Picture above: POPIN Exhibit at the
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population meeting, Beijing,
1997)
Founded: 9 May 1979, by resolution 1979/33 of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Commenced operations January 1981. Also referred to as the global Population Information Network/Réseau international d'information en matičre de population/Red International Informativa sobre Población.
Founding United Nations Resolutions:
Economic and Social Council Resolution (1977) (E/RES/2052(LXII))
Economic and Social Council Resolution (1979) (E/RES/1979/33)
Objectives: To identify, establish, strengthen and coordinate population information activities at international, regional and national levels; to facilitate and enhance the availability of population information in collaboration with the regional commissions, the specialized agencies and the NGO population community; and to provide a forum for the exchange of experiences among developed and developing countries on population information issues.
Structure: POPIN is a decentralized community of population institutions organized into regional and national networks in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Northern America. Plans are underway for the establishment of a population information network for Western Asia. The POPIN community includes governmental, intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations working at the national, subregional or international level. The global POPIN Coordinating Unit is located within the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations Secretariat.
The POPIN work programme is guided by the POPIN Advisory/Coordinating Committee, consisting of representatives from the United Nations regional commissions and specialized agencies, Governments and non-governmental organizations. The Chairman of the Advisory Committee is the Director of the Population Division. Technical and operational aspects of network activities are coordinated by the global POPIN Coordinating Unit in consultation with the regional POPINs.
Finance: Funded mainly by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) through Project No. INT/96/P82.
(a) POPIN Thesaurus: Population Multilingual Thesaurus. (3rd edition, 1993) in English, French and Spanish. Published in collaboration with the Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED), Paris, France;
(b) Population Newsletter. "POPIN Update" column includes information about the activities of the global POPIN Coordinating Unit and the regional POPINs. Published biannually by the Population Division/DESA;
(c) Asia-Pacific POPIN Bulletin. Includes information and articles about POPIN activities in the Asia-Pacific region; reports of meetings of the global POPIN Coordinating Unit; and news and discussions about new information technologies. Published four times a year in English by the Population Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The Asia-Pacific POPIN website is located at http://www.unescap.org/pop/popin/index.htm.
(d) PADIS Newsletter. Includes information about POPIN and development activities in Africa and other regions. Published four times a year in English and French by the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA);
(e) Boletin del PROLAP. Includes information about POPIN activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Published four times a year in Spanish by the Programa Latinoamericano de Actividades en Población, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
(f) APLIC- International Communicator. Includes information about the activities of the Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers- International (APLIC-I), which serves as the Northern American POPIN. Published periodically by APLIC.
(a) Worldwide Directory of Population Institutions. The Directory contains institutional addresses and information from the Asia-Pacific POPIN Directory of Population Institutions (ESCAP), the International List of Institutions Teaching Demography/Population and Development (United Nations Population Division/DESA), the Population Organizations: Finders Guid and Development (United Nations Population Division/DESA), the Population Organizations: Finders Guide (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and the Reproductive Health Directory of Training Centers (UNFPA).
(b) Dictionary of Demographic and Reproductive Health Terminology. The Dictionary contains English, French and Spanish population terminology and definitions.
(c) DOCPAL bibliographic database of citations to Latin American population literature. Produced by the Latin American Demographic Centre (CELADE) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Available online at CELADE, in CD-ROM format, and in the Internet via the CELADE WWW site.
(d) DOCPOP bibliographic database of Brazilian population literature. Produced by the Funcacao Sistema Estadual de Analise de Dados (State System for Data Analysis (SEADE), Brazil. Available in the Internet via the DOCPOP website.
(e) EBIS POPFILE bibliographic database of citations to Asia- Pacific population literature. Produced by the Population Division of ESCAP. Available online at ESCAP and on diskette on request. For national databases, please contact Asia-Pacific POPIN.
(f) POPIN-Africa bibliographic database of citations to African population literature. Produced by PADIS and previously by the Population Division (POPIN-Africa project) of ECA. Available online at PADIS or on diskette on request.
(g) POPIN Internet World Wide Web site. Includes statistical tables, software, official documentation of the International Conference on Population and Development and the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, fulll POPIN Coordinating Unit, Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, New York, in collaboration with the regional commissions, the UNFPA, the specialized agencies and the worldwide population community.
The address of the POPIN WWW site is: http://www.undp.org/popin
Regional POPIN websites:
Asia-Pacific POPIN
IPALCA, Latin American & Caribbean Population Information Network
POPIN Africa
POPIN Europe
Northern American POPIN (Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers -- International
For further information, please contact: The Director, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Secretariat, 2 United Nations Plaza (Rm. DC2-1950), New York, NY 10017, USA. Telephone: (212) 963-3179; Fax: (212) 963-2147.
