Geneva, Switzerland — We are pleased to announce that the United Nations Secretary General granted PPD the gracious permission to establish a Permanent Observer Delegation to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland. Partners in Population and Development has appointed Dr. Denis Broun as its Ambassador, Permanent Observer to the United Nations Office and other …
Nelspruit, South Africa — In a ground breaking high level meeting of BRAZIL, RUSSIA, INDIA, CHINA and SOUTH AFRICA (BRICS) agreed to cooperate on population matters. The demographic transition and post-transition challenges, including population ageing, unprecedented mortality reduction, yet stubbornly unacceptable levels of maternal and infant mortality, persistently- gender based violence, huge level of exclusion …
New York, USA — At a high-level dinner at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN officials joined Member States of the Partners in Population and Development (PPD) to highlight the critical role of South-South collaboration as a means to advance women’s and children’s health and the health-related …
Dhaka, Bangladesh — Partners in Population and Development (PPD) arranged the 3rd meeting of the National Task Force for South-South Cooperation of “Strengthening Evidence for Programming on Unintended Pregnancy (Step-Up)” Project. The meeting was held in the IEM Conference room, Directorate General of Family Planning at Karwan Bazar, Dhaka Bangladesh on Tuesday, 18th February, 2014. …
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe — PPD member countries met in beautiful location of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe for 24thExecutive Committee Meeting. The key issues of the meeting was to promote PPD for undertaking upcoming challenges in post ICPD era. The Executive Committee (Ex-Co) held was desirous to find PPD in a unique leadership position toaddressing population …
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe — The 5th Program, Planning and Development Committee Meeting of Partners in Population and Development (PPD) was held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe in 5th January, 2014. A dynamic and target oriented work plan for PPD focusing on its 20th anniversary of PPD as well as 20th anniversary of ICPD PoA has been …
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe — The 5th Finance and Risk Management Committee (FRMC) Meeting of Partners in Population and Development (PPD) was held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 25 January 2014. The committee approved PPD’s dynamic financial plan for 2014. PPD is an unique southern forum of 26 developing countries working the field of population development and …
Geneva, Switzerland — Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) of UNAIDS governing body met for Thirty-Third Meeting at WHO headquarter, Geneva, Switzerland from 17-19 December 2013. Executive Director of PPD Dr. Joe Thomas was present in the meeting as an intergovernmental observer. In the meeting, South- South Collaboration (SSC) has been identified as an effective developmental paradigm …
Partners in Population and Development (PPD) is a co-host of 12th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and Pacific (ICAAP) with the civil society and the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh at Dhaka Bangladesh in 2015. Local civil society ‘Bandhu’, HIV/STI and PLHIV network will work in association with. ICDDR,B and …
On 15th November 2013, the China CPC Central Committee announced its decision on certain changes in China’s Family Planning Policy, with which couple where either the husband or the wife is from a single child family will be encouraged to have two children. The secretariat of Partners in Population and Development (PPD) is glad to …
