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11
December, 2008
National
Workshop on National support for
South–South Cooperation
in Population and Developmentt
held in New Delhi India
New Delhi, India —
PPD
and the Ministry of Health and
Family welfare, Government of
India and National Institute of
Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW)
jointly organized the “National
South-South Workshop in Population
and Sustainable Development”
on December 11th 2008. The overarching
objective of the workshop and
the subsequent discussions was
to inform the participant of the
scope of strengthening the South
–South cooperation.
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26
November, 2008
Ethiopia,
Ghana joins PPD
Kampala, Uganda —
At
the Annual Board Meeting 2008
of PPD, Ethiopia and Ghana expressed
their intention to join the organization
which was approved unanimously
by all Board Members.
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26
November, 2008
Thirteen
Executive Committee and Board
meetings in Kampala, Uganda
Kampala, Uganda —
The
Thirteenth Executive Committee
Meeting of PPD was held on 23rd
November 2008 at Imperial Royale
Hotel, Kampala, Uganda. The meeting
was chaired by H.E. Dr. Li Bin,
Chair, PPD Board and Minister
of NPFPC, Government of the People’s
Republic of China.
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24-25
November, 2008
International
Forum on “ICPD @ 15: PROGRESS
AND PROSPECTS”
Kampala, Uganda —
PPD
in collaboration with the Government
of Uganda organized the International
Forum on “ICPD @ 15: Progress
and Prospects which was the first
of such events on celebrating
the fifteenth anniversary of ICPD
and was attended by about 225
Participants. The purpose of the
International Forum was to critically
analyze the progress made in the
implementation of ICPD Program
of Action.
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24
November, 2008
PPD
Honors its Pioneers
Kampala, Uganda —
For
the first time ever PPD honoured
the pioneers of ICPD, PPD and
South-South Cooperation. At the
Opening Ceremony of the International
Forum on “ICPD @ 15: PROGRESS
AND PROSPECTS”, PPD honoured
Six distinguish person by conferring
a Commemorative Plaque and a Certificate
of Excellence. H.E. Mrs. Janet
Museveni, Honourable First Lady
of Uganda handed over the Commemorative
Plaques and PPD Chairperson H.E.
Dr. Li Bin handed over the Certificate
of Excellence to the awardees.
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23
November, 2008
Partners
Country Coordinator (PCC) Meeting
at the Imperial Royale Hotel,
Kampala, Uganda
Kampala, Uganda —
Partners
in Population and Development
(PPD) organized the PCC meeting
in Collaboration with, Population
Secretariat (POPSEC) Ministry
of Finance, Planning and Economic
Development of Uganda on 23rd
November 2008. The meeting was
opened by, Mr. Harry Jooseery,
Executive director of PPD and
attended by the international
experts and PCCs from PPD member
country. The objective of the
meeting was to discuss issues
for strengthening South -South
cooperation through the creation
of National Support Structure
in each PPD member countries.
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10
October, 2008
Partners
Country Coordinator (PCC) Meeting
at the Imperial Royale Hotel,
Kampala, Uganda
Brasilia, Brazil —
Mr. Harry Jooseery, the Executive
Director ,PPD fielded a mission
to Brazil and met with the Brazilian
Minister of Health H.E. Mr. Jose
Gomes Temporao and the Minister
of Technical Cooperation H.E.
Dr. Paul Wangner de Miranda in
their respective offices in Brasilia.
This is a trip to expand the PPD’s
geographical coverage in South
America.
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06
October, 2008
Participants
Selected for PPD-INAS Fellowships
for the year of 2008 - 2010
Rabat, Morocco —
The Fellowship Program is an excellent
example of a South-South initiative.
It is based on the voluntary contributions
of fellowships by leading training
institutions in order to strengthen
the human resource base of both
PPD and other developing countries.
Through this carefully conceived
program, PPD provides unique opportunities
for high-quality professional
exchanges among developing countries
at very reasonable costs.
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16
- 18 September, 2008
Regional
Meeting of Parliamentary Committees
on Health in Eastern and Southern
Africa
Kampala, Uganda —
The Africa Regional office of
Partners in Population and Development
(PPD) organized the Regional Meeting
of Parliamentary Committees on
Health in East and Southern Africa,
Munyonyo Uganda from September
16-18 2008. This meeting was opened
by the Honorable Dr. Stephen Mallinga,
Minister of Health, Uganda.
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09
September, 2008
Japanese
Delegation Visits PPD Secretariat
Dhaka, Bangladesh —
A Japanese delegation, led by
Mr. Hiroyasu Bessho, comprised
of seven students of Global Politics
at Hosei University, Japan visited
the PPD Secretariat on their study
tour on September 09, 2008. They
spent a significant amount of
time at the Secretariat, with
the Executive Director, Mr. Harry
Jooseery and the PPD staff, learning
about PPD and its activities.
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04
September, 2008
National
South-South Workshop on Population
and Sustainable Development held
in Banjul
Banjul, The Gambia —
Partners in Population and Development
and the National Population Commission,
Government of the Republic of
The Gambia jointly organized the
“National South-South Workshop
on Population and Sustainable
Development” on September
4, 2008. The purpose of the workshop
was to advocate and garner support
from key stakeholders in the field
of reproductive health, family
planning and population for promoting
South-South Cooperation as a modality
for change and for creating a
national support structure in
The Gambia.
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06
August - 04 September, 2008
International
Fellowship Course Jointly Organized
by PPD and BKKBN Completed
Jakarta, Indonesia —
An International Fellowship Course
on “Behavior Change Communication
(BCC) in Family Planning and Reproductive
Health: The Indonesia Experience”
was organized by PPD in collaboration
with BKKBN at BKKBN, Jakarta,
Indonesia from 6 August- 4 September.
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29
August, 2008
National
South-South Workshop on Access
to Reproductive Health for the
Achievement of ICPD PoA and MDGs
Pretoria, South Africa
—
Partners in Population and Development
in collaboration with the Ministry
of Social Development, Government
of the Republic of South Africa
organized National South-South
Workshop on Access to Reproductive
Health for the Achievement of
ICPD Plan of Action and MDGs held
in Pretoria, South Africa on 29
August. The overarching objective
of the workshop and the subsequent
discussions was to inform the
participant of the scope of strengthening
the South–South cooperation.
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11
August, 2008
International
Fellowship Training Course on
Essential Newborn Care (ENC) and
Infant and Young Child Feeding
(IYCF) Held at ICMH
Dhaka, Bangladesh —
Institute of Child and Mother
Health (ICMH), in conjunction
with Partners in Population and
Development, organized an International
Fellowship Training Course on
Essential Newborn Care (ENC) and
Infant and Young Child Feeding
(IYCF), targeted towards Health
Managers, Doctors or Nurse / Midwives
from 2 – 11 August, 2008.
The thrust of the course was on
neo-natal care and safe motherhood.
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28-30
July, 2008
Consultative
Meeting on Networking among Partner
Institutions concludes in Dhaka
Dhaka, Bangladesh —
Partners in Population and Development
(PPD) organized the “Consultative
Meeting on Networking among Partner
Institutions” at Hotel Washington,
Dhaka, Bangladesh from 28 July
- 30 July 2008, involving Heads
of 16 Partner Institutions (PIs)
from Bangladesh, China, Egypt,
India, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco,
Senegal, Thailand and Tunisia.
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30
June, 2008
Workshop
on “South-South Cooperation
and Sustainable Development”
in Senegal
Dakar, Senegal —
Partners in Population and Development
in collaboration with the Ministry
of the Health of the Government
of Senegal organized a workshop
on ‘South-South Cooperation
and Sustainable Development’
on 30 June, 2008 in Dakar, Senegal.
The overarching objective of the
workshop and the subsequent discussions
was to inform the participants
of the scope of strengthening
cooperation between PPD member
countries and also the benefits
of South-South collaboration in
general.
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23-25
June, 2008
PPD
Updates Board Member in Yemen
on PPD Activities and Action
Sana'a, Yemen —
Executive Director, Mr. Harry
Jooseery, accompanied by Mr. James
Biswas fielded a mission to Yemen
on 23-25 June 2008. During this
high level mission, Mr. Jooseery
met with Honorable Mr. Ahmed Ali
Bourji, Secretary General, Technical
Secretariat, National Population
Council and PPD Board Member,
and also Mr. Abdul-Malik Sharafuddin,
Technical Advisor and Director
General of Planning and Resource
Mobilization, Technical Secretariat
of National Population Council
and the Partner Country Coordinator
for Yemen, and other high officials
from the Ministry of Health of
Yemen.
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28-30
May, 2008
Advocacy
and Resource Mobilization Campaign
in Japan during TICAD IV Meeting
Yokohama, Japan —
PPD Executive Director Mr. Harry
Jooseery conducted extensive advocacy
campaign among the heads of states
and other members of the state
delegation from 45 African Countries
attending the TICAD IV held in
Yokohama, Japan from 28 to 30
May 2008. At the invitation of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Government of Japan, Mr.
Jooseery represented PPD at the
this high profile meeting of the
heads of states and governments.
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22-23
May, 2008
PPD
will complement Activities of
the Key Players in RHCS and bridge
Knowledge Gaps
Brussels, Belgium —
PPD, as one of its strategic focuses
in the coming years, is committed
to promote reproductive health
commodity supply and security
in the developing countries, says
PPD Executive Director Mr. Harry
Jooseery. Mr. Jooseery made the
remark during his intervention
at the “Ninth Membership
Meeting of the Reproductive Health
Supplies Coalition (RHSC)”
held in Brussels, Belgium on 22-23
May 2008.
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06-08
May, 2008
PPD
calls for Increased Donor Funding
to Family Planning (FP) and Reposition
of FP in National Development
Agenda
Bali, Indonesia —
The PPD Executive Director Mr.
Harry S. Jooseery appealed to
the international community to
increase funding to Family Planning
sector and to the developing country
governments to Reposition Family
Planning in the national agenda.
Mr. Jooseery made this statement
while he was speaking at the 2nd
International Conference on Reproductive
Health Management: Emphasis on
Family Planning organized by Government
of Indonesia and UNFPA in Kuta,
Bali, Indonesia from 6 –
8 May 2008.
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26-28
April, 2008
Advocacy
among Parliamentarians
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
—
One of the most important strategies
of PPD is to work with the parliamentarians
to achieve its goals by bringing
about positive transformations
in the legislation and policy
formulation as well as in the
socio-political and cultural arena.
As all of us are aware, Parliamentarians
command considerable authority
in legislation and policy formation
while being deeply entranced in
socio-political and cultural set-up
of the countries, thus bridging
between the leadership and people.
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April, 2008
Meeting
with Ministry of Health of Cambodia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia —
To reinforce South-South Cooperation
(SSC) program involving countries
like Malaysia and Cambodia, PPD
discussed with the respective
Ministers on the modalities of
SSC as a way forward to meet ICPD
Goals and MDGs.
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17-19
April, 2008
Consultative
Meeting of Experts and Member
of International Programme Advisory
Committee (IPAC) on Strategic
Programme Development
Bangkok, Thailand —
PPD has a new Strategic Business
Plan (SBP) for (2008-2011) which
was developed after a long process
of consultations with Board Members,
Partners Country Coordinators
(PCCs), international experts
and stakeholders. This SBP was
discussed and approved at the
PPD Board Meeting held in Rabat,
Morocco in November 2007. For
the implementation of the SBP,
in collaboration with the Department
of Health, Ministry of Public
Health, Government of Thailand,
PPD organized a three-day Consultative
Meeting of Experts to identify
specific area of programme interventions
and avenues for their implementation.
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15
April, 2008
Accelerated
Momentum in South-South Cooperation
Countries Commit Enhanced Technical
and Financial Support to PPD
Government
of India reiterated its wide ranging
supports to reinforce to PPD and
intensify South-South collaboration
among member states. India offered
trainings in its premier institutions
for capacity development of professionals
from the member states, particularly
from the African member states.
India also offered specialized
training in RH Commodity logistics
management, an area in which India
is privileged with comparative
advantage.
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7
- 11 April, 2008
UNFPA
Executive Director Speaks on Resource
Mobilization
New
York, USA —
Speaking
at the opening of the 41st session
of the UN Commission on Population
and Development (7-11 April, UN,New
York), UNFPA Executive Director
Dr Thoraya Obaid made extensive
comments on the current status
of resource mobilization for population
and devlopment.
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14
March, 2008
Eastern
Africa Reproductive Health Network
(EARHN) Operationalizes its 2008
– 2012 Strategic Plan
Kampala,
Uganda —
It
will be recalled that soon after
it’s founding as a South-South
Initiative to promote RH, Population
and Development, EARHN undertook
to formulate its first Strategic
Plan in the year 2000 for the
period 2001 – 2005. With
changing global, regional and
national RH environment, EARHN
sought to review its strategic
directions in order to align itself
with the changing paradigm as
well as positioning itself to
achieve the ICPD PoA and the MDGs.
In this regard, in December 2007,
PPD ARO together with the partners
including DSW as well as Population
Action International and RH Supplies
Coalition supported and facilitated
EARHN to develop a new Strategic
Plan to guide its work for the
period 2008 – 2012.
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14
March, 2008
Honors
to 2 PPD Staff members: Mr. Jyoti
Singh and Dr. Jotham Musinguzi
PPD
is pleased to the honors given
to Mr. Jyoti Singh, PPD Permanent
Observer at the UN and Dr. Jotham
Musinguzi, Director, PPD Africa
Regional Office
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26-28
February, 2008
PPD
Annual Planning Retreat workshop
Dhaka,
Bangladesh —
PPD
organized an Annual Planning Retreat
workshop for the Secretariat from
26-28th February, 2008 at Riggs
Inn, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The objective
of the workshop was to share experiences
and learn from the past activities,
identify challenges and priority
works and develop a Work Plan
for 2008.
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20
February, 2008
Reproductive
Health Advocacy Network for the
SADC Region starts in earnest
Johannesburg,
South Africa —
The
Chief Director, Population Department
of the Ministry of Social Development
of the Republic of South Africa
hosted the Regional Director of
PPD ARO Dr. Jotham Musinguzi in
a preparatory meeting for the
formation of an RH Advocacy Network
for the SADC Region. The meeting
took place at Southern Sun Hotel,
Johannesburg on February 20, 2008.
The meeting was attended by PPD
ARO Programme Officer, Mr. Patrick
Mugirwa. Other attendees were
Ms. Christa Kruger, Ms. Olga Mabitsela,
Jeny Djidja and Mr. Mpho Nenweli
all from the Directorate of Population,
Ministry of Social Development.
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15-24
February, 2008
PPD
and ICMH Bangladesh organized
the International Fellowship Training
Course on Reproductive Health
and Safe Motherhood
at ICMH Premises in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dhaka,
Bangladesh —
Capacity
building is viewed as fundamentally
instrumental for efficient, result
and impact oriented implementation
of population and development
programs in order to attain ICPD
Goals and MDGs towards sustainable
development of the developing
countries. PPD attaches paramount
importance in continued capacity
building of professionals of member
states engaged in implementation
of population and development
programs.
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18-19
February, 2008
South
Africa hosts the Second Meeting
of the Technical Committee on
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan
for Africa, February 2008
Johannesburg,
South Africa —
The
Republic of South Africa hosted
an African Union (AU) event –
the Second Meeting of the Technical
Committee on Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Plan for Africa. The meeting was
held in Kopanong Conference Centre
in Johannesburg on February 18
– 19, 2008. This was a follow-up
meeting to the AU Ministers of
Health meeting held in Abuja in
January 2005 where the AU Ministers
of Health adopted a Pharmaceutical
Manufacturing Plan for Africa
which was developed in line with
the recommendations of the AU
Heads of State and Government
during the July 2007 Summit in
Accra, Ghana.
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22
January, 2008
PPD
briefs Permanent Missions at the
United Nations
New
York, USA —
The
Partners in Population and Development
(PPD) and the Permanent Mission
of Uganda to the United Nations,
organized a briefing on South-South
cooperation in population and
development, with particular reference
to the work of PPD, for the Permanent
Missions to the UN on 22 January
at the Uganda House.
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21-25
January, 2008
UNFPA
Governing Body Meets in New York
New
York, USA —
The
first regular seesion for 2008
of the UNDP/UNFPA Board which
took place at the United Nations
in New York from 21 to 25 January
was attended on behalf of PPD
by Mr Harry Jooseery, Executive
Director, Dr Jotham Musinguzi,
Director, Africa Regional Office
and Mr Jyoti Shankar Singh, Permanent
Observer of to the United Nations.
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