UNITED NATIONS POPULATION INFORMATION NETWORK (POPIN) UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, with support from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)

Think Global Act Local

 Parliamentarians for Global Action: "Think Global, Act Local"



 Parliamentarians for Global Action translated their commitment to 

population and development issues into an official document entitled 

"Parliamentary Declaration on Population and Development", which was 

presented at PrepCom 11 on Monday, 17 May 1993.



According to this Declaration, this influential group of parliamentarians, 

representing more than 19 million citizens from 24 different countries, has 

pledged to act through their national parliaments to promote population and 

development goals and policies.

"The 1994 Cairo Conference must be a springboard to generating political 

will that ensures that the related issues of population and development are 

at the top of the political agenda of world leaders for the remainder of the 

decade".



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Parliamentarians also made clear in their Declaration that there would be no 

lasting solution to the global population and development crisis without 

major financial contributions from the developed to the developing world. To 

that effect, the group echoed the ICPD Secretary-General's call for donor 

governments to allocate 4% of their official development assistance to 

population activities, and set the year 2000 as their target date. 

Governments currently allocate less than 1.5% of official development 

assistance to population related activities, including family planning.



Parliamentarians also referred to the debt problems of many developing 

nations, and called for more open trade practices between the developed and 

developing world. Structural Adjustment Programmes were identified as 

another source of constraint, which further restricted the ability of 

governments to devote more funds to social sectors.