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Ques:
What is PPD?
Ans:
Partners in Population and Development
(PPD) is an Inter-governmental Alliance
of 25 developing countries with a
mission to expand and improve South-South
collaboration in the fields of family
planning and reproductive health,
population and development through
the governments, NGOs and private
sector organizations. It was created
at the International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD)
in Cairo in 1994.
Ques:
Who are the members of this Alliance?
Ans:
PPD Members are developing
countries committed to the implementation
of the ICPD Programme of Action, willing
to provide political, technical and
financial support to South-South Cooperation.
While
there were only 10 developing countries
at the time of formation of the Organization
in 1994, over the years PPD’s
membership has increased to 25 developing
countries across Asia, Middle East
and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
and Latin America covering more than
57% of total world population. The
PPD member countries are:
| Asia:
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Bangladesh
China
India
Indonesia
Pakistan
Thailand
Viet Nam |
| Latin
America/Caribbean: |
Colombia
Mexico |
| Middle
East/North Africa: |
Egypt
Morocco
Tunisia
Yemen
Jordan |
| Sub-Saharan
Africa: |
Ethiopia
The Gambia
Ghana
Kenya
Mali
Uganda
Benin
Senegal
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Nigeria |
Ques:
Where it is located?
Ans:
The Secretariat
of PPD is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
However, it has a Regional
Office located in Kampala, Uganda,
a UN Observer’s
Office, located in New York and
a Program
Office located in Taicang, China.
PPD country offices are located within
the Health Ministry of the respective
member country.
Ques:
What is PPD Mission and Vision?
Ans:
The Mission and Vision of PPD are
as follows:
Vision
By the year 2014, Partners in Population
and Development, as an Intergovernmental
Organization, is driving the global
reproductive health and population
agenda to attain sustainable development.
Mission
To assist Member Countries and other
developing countries to address successfully
the sexual and reproductive health
and rights, including family planning
(FP) and HIV/AIDS, population and
development challenges through South-South
Collaboration by raising a common
voice and sharing sustainable, effective,
efficient, accessible and acceptable
solutions considering the diverse
economic, social, political, religious
and cultural characteristics of our
countries.
Ques:
What are its Goals?
Ans:
The following are the goals
of the organization as highlighted
in its Strategic Business Plans (2008
– 2011):
Goal
1: Strengthened South-South
Cooperation in Population and Development
through advocacy, policy dialogue,
exchange of information and sharing
of expertise, experience and technologies
among developing countries.
Goal
2: Strengthened capacities
at systems, institutional and individual
levels in Member Countries through
training, research and information
and experience sharing.
Goal
3: Strengthened networks
and partnerships with institutions,
civil society organizations, and private
sector and development partners.
Goal
4: Improved voluntary FP
and other reproductive health services
utilizing rights-based, gender and
culturally sensitive approaches in
particular through increasing integration
of RH and HIV/AIDS and improved RHCS.
Goal
5: Enhanced resource availability
including greater mobilization of
resources from member countries and
from donor countries/organizations
for South-South Cooperation.
Goal
6: Strengthened PPD through
strengthened human resource base and
improved programme collaboration with
non-member countries.
Ques:
What are the Priorities of the Organization?
Ans:
In line with the present
strategic direction of the organization,
the following are the priorities till
the year 2011:
(i)
Integration of MDGs and ICPD goals
by ensuring that the linkages between
population dynamics, reproductive
health, gender equality and poverty
remain central to the formulation
and implementation of development
and poverty reduction strategies
and plans;
(ii) Promotion of reproductive health
and rights;
(iii) Improving gender equality;
(iv) Strengthening the integration
of RH and HIV/AIDS services;
(v) Improving adolescent sexual
and reproductive health (ASRH) and
(vi) Improving Reproductive Health
Commodity Security (RHCS) –access
to affordable RH commodities --with
particular focus on the poor and
vulnerable segments of the population.
Ques:
Who runs this Organization?
Ans:
PPD operates globally with its member
countries through its Board
Members who are mainly Ministers
of Population, Health and Development
and Partner
Country Coordinators (PCCs) who
are also high level government officials.
It has closer partnership with 17
premier institutions, known as Partner
Institutions (PIs) in member countries
which gives it a unique advantage
in undertaking capacity development
activities, in organizing policy advocacy,
in identifying and documenting lesson
learned among others. PPD has a Secretariat
located in Dhaka Bangladesh, a Regional
Office for Africa at Kampala,
Uganda, a Programme
Office at Taicang, China and a
Permanent
Observer’s Office for United
Nations at New York, USA. It is headed
by an Executive
Director.
Ques:
How the Governance of PPD is formed?
Ans:
Governing Body - The
Governance structure of PPD is integrated
in the Board, and the Executive Committee,
which formulates the policies and
monitors the activities. The Board
is consisted mainly with the Ministers
of Health, Population and Social Development
from the Member States. The leadership
of the Board consists of the Chair,
the vice-Chair, the Secretary and
the Treasurer elected by the Board
of a three-year term and who constitute
the Executive Committee of the Organization.
The Board meets once a year to discuss
governance, policy, and programmatic
and financial issues while the Executive
Committee meets twice a year before
the Board meeting is held to provide
guidance to and evaluate the achievements
of the organization. The By-laws signed
by each member state regulate the
governance and functioning of the
organization.
Implementing
Bodies - The bodies responsible
for the overall implementation and
follow-up of PPD programs and projects
are the Partner Country Coordinators
(PCC) at the Partner Country level,
Regional office at the regional level,
and the PPD Secretariat.
Advisory
Body - The body responsible
for the provision of guidance, advice
and technical assistance to PPD programs
and projects is the International
Program Advisory Committee (IPAC).
Click
here to see the list of Members.
Collaborative
and Networking bodies - The
bodies responsible to encourage collaboration
with key institutions and organizations
at both, national and regional level
are the network of institutions (governmental
and non-governmental) which collaborate
in PPD programs and projects, the
regional reproductive health networks,
and the National Support Structure.
Ques:
What are the current activities of
the Organization?
Ans:
Following are the current activities
of the organization:
1) Capacity Development of
Member Countries
The central philosophy of PPD in its
efforts to encourage South-South Cooperation
as a way of assisting developing countries
to help achieve the ICPD Goals and
the MDGs. PPD in its efforts to encourage
South-South Cooperation as a way of
assisting Member Countries (MCs) and
the developing world in general to
achieving the ICDP Goals and the MDGs,
is systematically undertaking a number
of analytical, programmatic, and consultative
activities for the promotion of capacity
building, namely:
a)
Documenting on capacities of PPD
Partner Institutions (PIs) in MCs
to mount and conduct capacity development
programmes, as well as cataloguing
of courses and other training initiatives
at the PIs so as to develop appropriate
programme that will enhance and
support South-South Cooperation
for the promotion of MDGs;
b) Mapping the needs of member countries
for capacity building at system,
organizational and individual levels
covering technical, managerial and
programmatic skills and capabilities;
c) Identifying training gaps in
technical and managerial areas of
member countries, as well as developing
proposals to address those gaps;
d) Developing a comprehensive capacity
development action plan;
e) Developing generic modules in
priority capacity gap areas such
as, population and poverty , population
and reproductive health, population
and gender, and institutional and
historical perspectives on ICPD
Goals and MDGs;
f) Encouraging the PIs to integrate
the contents of these generic modules
into their ongoing activities.
Exchange
of expertise (Fellowship Program)
The founding mandate of PPD was that
countries in the South have among
them unique practices, resources and
knowledge, particularly in the fields
of Family Planning, and Sexual and
reproductive Health, which could be
shared with other countries of the
South to help them in formulation
and implementation of policies and
programs. Therefore, information and
knowledge sharing for capacity building
are among the core programmatic areas
of PPD.
The
PPD website successfully acts as the
central point or the clearing house
of information relating to member
countries – their profiles,
demographic data, best practices,
list of centres of excellence, programs
undertaken to further South-South
Collaboration.
PPD
has also developed a number of advocacy
tools to promote PPD’s global
agenda on Family Planning, and Sexual
and Reproductive health. These include
a myriad of publications including
a Handbook for the Consultants, Report
on Real Life Experience Sharing on
Consulting for Reproductive Health,
four Generic Modules for capacity
Development and a booklet with overview
of PPD PIs. In addition, PPD publishes
a bi-monthly newsletter titled PPD
Watch to highlight PPD and Member
Country activities and achievements.
All the above information resources
could be found in the PPD website
as well.
Besides,
PPD has developed a fellowship program,
which aims to:
i) Strengthen human resource base
in developing countries by voluntary
offer of fellowships by leading
training institutions from developing
countries;
ii) Exchange experiences and expertise
with other professionals.
The
fellowship program is offered to professionals
in the fields of population, family
planning and sexual and reproductive
health including both member and non-member
countries from the South. The fellowship
program has become a significant mechanism
for mobilization financial and technical
resources from and for the South.
PPD so far offered about four hundred
scholarship to member country professionals.
Reproductive
Health and Commodity Supply and Security:
Success in RH/Family Planning programs
and promotion of commodity supplies
is key component to the achievement
of the MDGs. Through its Reproductive
Health Commodity Supply (RHCS) Program,
PPD aims at exchanging information
about research and development of
RH commodities in various countries
of the South, analyzing problems in
RHCS and thereby promoting South-South
Cooperation (SSC) in this particular
domain. Due to pressing demand and
challenges to countries of the South
in RHCS and service, PPD mobilizes
resources to enhance political commitment
by the government from Member Countries
to increase expenditures on RH commodities,
on the one hand; and to reinforce
capacity, commodity quality as well
as information exchange on the other
hand. PPD is also networking with
the private sector, eventually the
drug manufacturers and enable them
share successful purchases that would
enable improve the quality of products
and adapt WHO pre-qualification standards
in production of RH commodities.
PPD
is also an Executive Member of the
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition
(RHSC) and provides support to all
the 99 Members of the RHSC globally
for the enhancement of Reproductive
Health Commodity Supply and Services.
Partnership:
Partnership building is a key component
of PPD’s approach to encourage
and strengthen South-South Cooperation.
Over the past years, PPD has been
active in developing a network of
seventeen Partner Institutions from
member countries in Africa, Asia,
Latin America and Middle East. In
order to achieve the goals of the
ICPD and the MDGs, these PIs work
closely with each other and with PPD
towards capacity development, on the
following specific areas including:
1. Adolescent Health
2. Family Planning and HIV/AIDS
3. Reproductive Health and Safe
Motherhood;
4. Maternal and Child Health;
5. Policy Advocacy for Population
Program development and Poverty
alleviation;
6. Information Technology;
7. Research, Monitoring and Evaluation,
among others.
Partnerships
with NGOs, civil society organizations
and other Stakeholders have also been
enhanced through the Private and Public
Partnership Initiative.
Advocacy:
Working to improve opportunities for
RH, Population and Development programs
for Member Countries, PPD, through
its advocacy program, lends assistance
to a large number of audiences and
professional groups in the field of
RH, to strengthen their role as promoters
of leadership and actors of tangible
social change in the South. In this
regard, PPD has provided fertile ground
for collaboration with Member Countries
with involvement of Actors of tangible
social change in the south. In this
regard, PPD has provided fertile ground
for collaboration with Member Countries
with involvement of Actors engaged
in Reproductive Health, Population,
Policy Advocacy and Development programs
among other issues. As component of
this effort, PPD has prepared and
disseminated a wide range of policy
materials, organized advocacy campaign
as well as policy dialogues, and provides
assistance to member countries mainly
to promoting South-South Cooperation
in the areas of Reproductive Health,
Population and Development.
Ques:
How can one be a member of this Organization?
Ans:
Any developing country is
welcome to join PPD, including countries
with economies in transition, as long
as they demonstrate interest and substantive
involvement in South-South activities.
The criteria for membership are as
follows:
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The country may and may not have
extensive experience and expertise
in reproductive health, population
and family planning to share with
other developing countries;
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It must be committed to the principles
of the ICPD and its Program of Action,
and to the mission of PPD;
- It
must agree to pay an accelerated
annual membership fee. The minimum
fee shall be US$ 20,000 annually.
Countries
applying for membership will submit
an application letter to the Chair
of the PPD Board. A country profile
and the country’s reproductive
health strategic plan needed to be
submitted together with the application
letter.
Ques:
Who funds this organization?
Ans:
PPD is partly supported by
the Member Countries themselves. Since
PPD’s inception, the Rockefeller
Foundation, the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation, the Ford Foundation,
UNFPA, the World Bank, and more recently
other foundations such as Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, Packard
Foundation, the Royal Dutch Government,
the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Venture
Strategies, Population Communication
and OXFAM Quebec has supported it.
Bilateral and multilateral donors
such as USAID, DFID, DSW and the European
Commission have also provided generous
financial assistance to PPD.
Ques:
Which are the countries it operates?
Ans:
While PPD activities are
not limited to only its member countries,
it generally operates through and
with its member states as mentioned
above.
Ques:
What are its present programs?
Ans:
Following are the present activities
of the organization:
(i) Need based Capacity Development;
(ii) Focused and targeted Advocacy
and Policy Dialogue;
(iii) Improved information sharing
and communication;
(iv) Networking and Coalition Building;
(v) Resource mobilization and
(vi) Sharing of Technologies and expertise;
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