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CST Participation in Thematic Workshops
Logical Framework Training
During 29 January-31 January 1997, Mr. William House, Adviser on Population and Development Planning and Policy, and Mr. Stephen Chee, Director, participated in the first of a series of Logical Framework (LogFrame) Training Workshops, sponsored by the UNFPA at the New York headquarters. The workshop, held over a 3-day period, included a total of 14 participants: 5 UNFPA Country Representatives, 2 CST Directors, 2 CST Advisers and 5 UNFPA headquarters staff.
The LogFrame approach is useful in making explicit the reasoning behind a programme and the interrelationships between explicit project activities and interventions, their outputs or results and the contribution of the impacts of the sub-programme or project for broader country programme or development goals.
Mr. Laurie Lewis, Adviser on Population Statistics, was at the UNFPA HQ in New York from the 10-14 February to attend a thematic workshop on reproductive health indicators. The aims of the workshop were to enable participants to gain a general understanding of the uses of indicators, the methodologies to collect information, and the feasibility of collecting various types of information; and to determine priorities in collecting data at different levels in the development, monitoring and evaluation of UNFPA interventions in the three main programme areas.
The outputs of the workshop were a proposed set of indicators for use for each of the UNFPA thematic areas. The workshop provided a useful forum for the exchange of ideas betweeen advisers from different regions and reinforced the need for suport for collection of basic data and establishment of information systems.
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STOP PRESS
Throughout the Pacific islands, World Population Day on July 11 was observed with special activities organized by governments, non-governmental organizations, schools and communities.
In Fiji, competitions, displays, newspaper supplements, radio broadcasts and television programmes helped to publicise the significance of World Population Day and highlighted the special reproductive health of young people - the New Generation. Health centres around the country held displays featuring reproductive health including family planning and sexual health awareness throughout the week.
Under the gracious patronage of Her Excellency, Adi Lady Lala Mara, the First Lady, a reception was held on Friday night, 11 July, at Government House. Government ministers, senior officials, community leaders, diplomats and UN staff were invited.
The First Lady launched a publication in the Fijian language "Na i vola dusidusi me vukea na kena karoni kei na taqomaki ni bula ni mata vuvale", or "Trainer's manual on family life", produced by the Soqosoqo Vakamarama (or Women's Organization), of which she is the President. The UNFPA Representative, Ms. Etta Tadesse, read a message from Dr. Nafis Sadik, UNFPA's Executive Director, on the occasion of World Population Day 1997.
Dr. Sadik's message ended with these words: "Every country and every culture is different; what we have in common is that we all want the best for our young people. They will shape the world of the 21st century: they deserve the best possible start". |