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Yemen
joined PPD in 2002.
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National
Population Council / Technical Secretariat
of Yemen in cooperation and coordination
with PPD organized a workhop on 25th
of December 2006 in Sana’a,
Yemen under the slogan of “South-South
Cooperation on Population and Sustainable
Development”. The purpose of
the workshop was to introduce PPD
among individuals, national and international
organizations and governments and
to examine how S-S cooperation contributes
to the sustainable development of
the member states.
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PPD
in collaboration with Technical Secretariat
of National Population Council, Yemen
organized a training in Sana’a
during 8-10 August 2005. It was attended
by 13 participants from 5 countries
in Middle East and North Africa and
Sub-Sahara Africa namely, Yemen, Egypt,
Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Ghana.
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Yemen
is collaborating with neighbouring
PPD member countries on training RH
health workers. Tunisia and Yemen,
for example, initiated a joint proposal
on RH cooperation.
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In
September 2003, Yemen launched a visibility
initiative with the media and national
stakeholders on the role of South-South
collaboration in population, RH and
FP.
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A
regional conference on population,
health productivity and family planning
was held in Sana’a in May 2004
under the slogan, “Ten years
since Cairo Conference on Population
and Development: 1994-2004, from recommendations
to obligations and implementation.”
The aim of the conference, organised
by the Yemeni Family Caring Association,
under the supervision of the International
Family Planning Union, was to, among
others, evaluate the progress achieved
by Yemen in the field of population,
health productivity and family planning.
It also considered activities that
had not yet been implemented, and
discussed the difficulties, challenges,
and funding issues of population,
health productivity and family planning
based on the recommendations of Cairo
Population and Development Conference.
Furthermore, it set the priorities
in the fields of population, health
productivity and family planning in
five key areas: AIDS, youths, teenagers,
social kind and services.
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