UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
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AFPPD INFORMATION SERVICE
Issue #2
March 1997
***** AFPPD Association with the South-South Partnership
Ten developing countries have formed an exciting new alliance
to advance the aims of the Program of Action that was endorsed by 179
countries at the 1994 United Nations International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt. From its
inception this initiative has been supported by a variety of
multilateral and bilateral agencies and by other international
institutions, particularly the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Bank.20
The 10 countries that make up this new international
initiative 97 PARTNERS IN POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT 97 are:
Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco,
Thailand, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
These 10 countries all have one important characteristic in
common. Over the past 20 years they have each been successful in
creating dynamic national family planning programs which have helped
couples to have the number of children they want, when they want
them.
As well, all 10 countries have strong track records in
establishing population policies, programs and services that have
also helped improve the general conditions of maternal and child
health, lower birth rates and slow rates of population growth.
The accomplishments of all 10 Partner countries in the fields
of family planning and reproductive health reflects the vast pool of
expertise that now exists in many developing regions. Much of this
expertise has been tailored to the very specific social, cultural and
economic situations of the developing world. This means that the
Partners are ideally suited to provide effective and innovative
technical assistance responsive to the special needs of other
developing countries.
One program in this Partnership is to involve parliamentarians
and will assist them to visit and observe population and development
programs in the participating countries.
* The Asian Forum of Parliamentarians for Population and
Development (AFPPD) will participate in this area of the program. In
July 1997, the AFPPD, under agreement with the Rockefeller Foundation
and the UNFPA, will arrange a study tour for 15 members of parliament
from New Zealand and Australia to visit both Thailand and Vietnam.
* Senator Prof. Dr. Prasop Ratanakorn, Secretary General of
the AFPPD, hosted a reception for the members of the Executive
Committee of the South-South Partners which met in Bangkok recently.
The reception was attended by the Ministers of Population for
Indonesia, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, the Deputy Director of the UNFPA,
MS. Kerstin Trone, the Director of Technical and Evaluation Division
for the UNFPA, Mr. S. Rao, and the Special Advisor to the UNFPA, Mr.
Jyoti Singh.
***** Parliamentarians Meeting on Water Resources Population and
Development in Kobe, Japan
The Asian Population and Development Association (APDA), in
cooperation with the AFPPD and the city of Kobe, is organizing an
Asian Parliamentarians Meeting on Water Resources and Population in
Kobe, Japan on the 17th and 18th of March, 1997. For further
information contact APDA at the following e-mail address:
apdatyoj@gol.com
***** AFPPD Secretary General in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore
Senator Prof. Dr. Prasop Ratanakorn visited Singapore and
Malaysia as a member of the Thai Parliamentarians delegation to those
two countries. While there he took the opportunity to brief
parliamentarians about the AFPPD.
***** All Party Parliamentarians Group in the UK Briefed
Mr. S. Rao, Director of Technical and Evaluation Division for
the UNFPA, and Dr. Sara Seims, Associate Director of Population
Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, met members of the All Party
Parliamentarians Group on Population and Development in London this
week. They spoke about population programs in general, and the
South-South Partnership in particular.
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* WATER RESOURCES AND POPULATION *
* is the 1997 theme of the AFPPD *
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***** National Parliamentarians Meetings
The AFPPD will devote 1997 to strengthening national
parliamentarians groups in Asia by organizing national and
sub-regional parliamentarian meetings in India Sri Lanka, Thailand,
Malaysia, the Philippines and China on the theme of Water Resources
and Population, as well as Reproductive Health.
***** Reports Available from the AFPPD Secretariat
Two reports are now available from the AFPPD office. They are
the following:
The 5th General Conference of the AFPPD on Food Security,
Population and Development held September 25-27, 1996 in Canberra,
Australia
and
The International Meeting of Parliamentarians on Food
Security, Population and Development held November 10-11 in Geneva,
Switzerland
09 For your complimentary copy please fax our office at (66-2)
246-8827, or e-mail us at-- skhare@mozart.inet.co.th. Please
remember to include your mailing address in your correspondence.
09* The report of the APDA Asian Parliamentarians Meeting held
last year in Manila entitled "Women in the 21st Century- Strategy for
Prosperity and Peace" is available from APDA. There Tokyo fax number
is (81-3) 3358-2211 and there e-mail address is-- apdatyoj@gol.com
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