Commission on Population and Development, forty-forth session (2011)

Date: 
11 April 2011 to 15 April 2011

Fertility, reproductive health and development

Members of the Commission

Bureau members

  • Ambassador Brian Bowler (Malawi) - African Group (Chair)
  • Mr. Christophe de Bassompierre (Belgium) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Vice-Chair)
  • Mr. Attila Zimonyi (Hungary) - Eastern-European Group (Vice-Chair)
  • Mr. Easton Williams (Jamaica) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Vice-Chair)
  • Mr. Suljuk Mustansar Tarar (Pakistan) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)
Report of the Commission on its forty-fourth session 
Introductory statements
  • Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
Agenda item 1
 
Agenda item 2
 

Provisional agenda (E/CN.9/2011/1)

Report on the Meetings of the Bureau of the Commission on Population and Development (E/CN.9/2011/2)

Note by the Secretariat containing the organization of work of the session (E/CN.9/2011/L.1
 
Agenda item 3

Ann Biddlecom, Chief, Fertility and Family Planning Section, Population Division (Statement)

Report of the Secretary-General on fertility, reproductive health and development (E/CN.9/2011/3)

Mr. Werner Haug, Director, Technical Division, UNFPA (Statement)

Report of the Secretary-General on monitoring of population programmes, focusing on fertility, reproductive health and development (E/CN.9/2011/4

Mr. Jose Miguel Guzman, Chief, Population and Development Branch, UNFPA (Statement)

Report of the Secretary-General on The flow of financial resources for assisting in the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (E/CN.9/2011/5)

Keynote statement and interactive discussion

  • Mr. John Bongaarts, Vice President Population Council. Fertility trends and their implications for development (Bio) (Presentation)
Agenda item 4
Keynote statement and interactive discussion
  • Ms. Amy Tsui, Professor and Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute.  Family planning: succeeding in meeting needs to make a better world (Bio) (Presentation)
  • Mr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah, Director of the Africa Alliance for Women’s Reproductive Health and Rights. Addressing global reproductive health challenges (Bio) (Presentation)
 

NGO statements

  • IPAS, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2011/NGO/1)
  • World Population Foundation, German Foundation for World Population (DSW) and Väestöliitto, non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, and CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, non-governmental organization without consultative status (E/CN.9/2011/NGO/4)
  • The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a non-governmental organization in Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2011/NGO/5)
  • The International Women’s Health Coalition, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2011/NGO/7
  • Population Action International, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2011/NGO/8)
  • Family Care International, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2011/NGO/9)
  • Advocates for Youth, a non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2011/NGO/10)

 

Agenda item 5

Statements

Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund

Nafis Sadik, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific

NGO statements
  • ARROW, Centre for Health Policy and Innovation, German Foundation for World Population (DSW), Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM), International Federation of University Women, International Planned Parenthood Federation, IPAS, Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP), Population Action International, Shirkat Gah, Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU), Väestöliitto and World Population Foundation, non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2011/NGO/3)

  • Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM), a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (E/CN.9/2011/NGO/6)

 

Agenda item 6

H.E. Ambassador Abulkalam Abdul Momen, delivered on behalf of H.E. Lazarus Kapambwe, President, Economic and Social Council (Statement)

Agenda item 7

Thomas Buettner, Assistant Director, Population Division (Presentation) (Statement)

Report of the Secretary-General on world demographic trends (E/CN.9/2011/6)

Armindo Miranda, Senior Population Affairs Officer, Population Division (Statement)

Report of the Secretary-General on Programme implementation and progress of work in the field of population in 2010: Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (E/CN.9/2011/7)

Draft programme of work of the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, for the biennium 2012-2013 (E/CN.9/2011/CRP.1/Rev.1)

Agenda item 8

Note by the Secretariat containing the provisional agenda for the forty-fifth session of the Commission (E/CN.9/2011/L.2)

Note by the Secretariat containing the provisional agenda for the forty-fifth session of the Commission (E/CN.9/2011/L.2/Rev.1)

 

Agenda item 9

Country and UN system statements  (Available here)

 

IGO/NGO statements (Available here)

 
Closing statements
  • Thomas Stelzer, Assistant-Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs (Statement)

  • Werner Haug, Director, Technical Division, UNFPA on behalf of Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (Statement)

  • Hania Zlotnik, Director, Population Division/UN DESA (Statement)

  • Brian Bowler, Chairperson, 44th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (Statement)

 

 

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