Commission on Population and Development, fiftieth session (2017)

Changing population age structures and sustainable development

 

Members of the Commission

Bureau members 

  • Ms. Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani (Qatar) - Asia-Pacific Group (Chair)
  • Mr. Lewis G. Brown (Liberia) - African Group (Vice-Chair)
  • Ms. Cristina Popescu (Romania) - Eastern-European Group (Vice-Chair)
  • Ms. Nicola Barker-Murphy (Jamaica) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Vice-Chair)
  • Ms. Eleonora van Munster (Netherlands) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Vice-Chair)

List of delegations (advance unedited version) (E/CN.9/2017/INF/1)

 

Report of the Commission on its 50th session  

 

Decisions

 

Opening statements

Keynote speakers

Monday, 3 April 2017

Eliya ZuluChanging age structures and sustainable development in youthful societies

Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Rania Antonopoulos: Changes in age structure and sustainable development in ageing societies

National voluntary presentations, expert panel and interactive discussion
Panel discussion: Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, with emphasis on changing age structures and sustainable development
  • Mr. William Miller, Global Connections Television/Washington International  

  • Ms. A. Chlon-Dominczak, Assistant Professor at Warsaw School of Economics and Educational Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland, and former Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy  

  • Mr. Youssef Courbage,  Research Director, Institut national d’études démographiques, Paris, France

  • Ms. E. Esinam Asamani, Project Leader, Ghana Adolescent Reproductive Health project, at Hope For Future Generations

  • Mr. Rafael Rofman,  World Bank Program Leader for Education, Health, Social Protection and Labour, and Poverty, Buenos Aires, Argentina

China Finland  Ghana
Indonesia Mexico Norway
Philippines   Republic of the Sudan

 

Agenda item 1

1. Election of officers1

1 In accordance with Economic and Social Council decision 2005/213 of 31 March 2005, the Commission, immediately following the closure of the fiftieth session, will hold the first meeting of its fifty-first session for the sole purpose of electing a new Chair and other members of the Bureau, in accordance with rule 15 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Council.

Agenda item 2

2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters  

Provisional agenda for the fiftieth session of the Commission (E/CN.9/2017/1)

Organization of work of the session (E/CN.9/2017/L.1)

Agenda item 3

3. General debate 

(a): Actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development at global, regional and national levels

(b): Special theme of the fiftieth session of the Commission based on the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the key actions for its further implementation

Statement

Mr. Jorge Bravo, Branch Chief, Population Division / DESA

Presentations

Report of the Secretary-General on changing population age structures and sustainable development (E/CN.9/2017/2)

(click here for supplementary materials)

Report of the Secretary-General on monitoring of the population programmes, focusing on changing population age structures and sustainable development, in the context of the full implementation of the Programme of Action of International Conference on Population and Development (E/CN.9/2017/3)

Report of the Secretary-General on flow of financial resources for assisting in the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (E/CN.9/2017/4)

Country statements  (Available here)

System and NGO statements (Available here)

Agenda item 4

4. Programme implementation and future programme of work of the Secretariat in the field of population

Statement

Ms. Sabine Henning, Senior Population Affairs Officer, Population Division / DESA

Report of the Secretary-General: Programme implementation and progress of work in the field of population in 2016: Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (E/CN.9/2017/5)

Note by the Secretary-General on the draft programme of work for the period 2018-2019: subprogramme 5, Population, of programme 7, Economic and social affairs (E/CN.9/2017/CRP.1)

Country statements 

 

Germany Japan  

 

Agenda item 5

5. Provisional agenda for the fifty-first session of the Commission

Provisional agenda for the fifty-first session of the Commission (E/CN.9/2017/L.2)

The history of the commission

A lot has changed in the world over the past 70 years; our population has grown and the world's understanding of population issues has changed immensely. The Commission on Population and Development was there for all these changes. Its firsts session took place 70 years ago, and this year we celebrate the Commissions' 50th session.

In this video, key players take us back to the important events and milestones in population research throughout the years.