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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.
PPD
Pioneers
The
Recipients of the Awards and their
biographies are as follows:
Professor
Dr. Haryono Suyono
Former Minister for Population and
Minister for People Welfare
Government of Indonesia and Chairman
Damandiri Foundation, Indonesia
Professor
Haryono Suyono, currently the Chairman
of Damandiri Foundation completed
his MA in Social Science and a Ph.D
in Sociology specializing in Population
and Development from University of
Chicago in 1971. Prof. Suyono was
the Chief of Social Statistics Bureau
in Indonesia. He served as Deputy
Chairman, National Family Planning
Coordinating Board (NFPCB) from 1972
to 1983 and became the Chairman of
NFPCB. Prof. Suyono served the Government
of Indonesia as Minister for Population
from 1993 to 1998 and as Minister
Coordinating for People Welfare from
1998 to 1999.
Prof.
Suyono has been associated with numerous
national and international organizations
and contributed significantly in the
field of Population and Development.
Currently he is the President of Indonesian
Sociological Association, Deputy Chairman
of Stroke Foundation, President of
Indonesian National Committee for
Social Welfare, President of Scout
Friendships, and Member of AUICK,
Kobe. Prof. Suyono served as President
of Indonesian Demographic Association,
President of ICOMP, Chairman of Indra
Foundation and was Founder and Secretary
General of Partners in Population
and Development from 1995 to 1998.
For
his lifelong achievements in the Population
and Development sector, Prof. Haryono
Suyono received numerous prestigious
awards namely, Hugh Moore Awards for
Innovation, Washington, 1995; Mahaputera
Utama, Special Class of National Awards,
1982; Mahaputera Adipradana, Highest
Level National Awards, 1996; Republic
of Indonesia, Special National Awards,
1998; Professorship from University
of Airlangga, Surabaya, 1994; Doctor
Honoris Causa from Monash University,
1995 and Honorary Member of Indonesian
Doctor Association, 1996. A hall in
Johns Hopkins University has been
named as "Haryono Hall"
in honour of Prof. Suyono in 1995.
Dr.
Nafis Sadik
Former Executive Director
UNFPA and Special Advisor to the UN
Secretary General
Special Envoy for HIV-AIDS in Asia
and the Pacific
Dr.
Nafis Sadik, born in Jaunpur, India,
holds a Doctor of Medicine Degree
from Dow Medical College, Karachi,
Pakistan, interned in Obstetrics and
Gynaecology at City Hospital, Baltimore,
Maryland, and further studied at The
Johns Hopkins University. From 1954-1963,
Dr. Sadik served as civilian medical
officer in various Pakistani armed
forces hospitals, and was Pakistan's
Director-General of the Central Family
Planning Council (1966-1970). She
joined UNFPA in 1971, and served as
its Executive Director from 1987-2000.
She was the first woman in the United
Nations, to head one of its major
voluntarily-funded programmes. Following
her retirement in 2000, Dr. Sadik
was appointed by the UN Secretary-General
as Special Advisor, with responsibilities
as UN Special Envoy for HIV-AIDS in
Asia and the Pacific.
Dr.
Sadik is well-known for her dynamism
and guiding force in the field of
maternal and child health, reproductive
and sexual health, and a strong advocate
for education and prevention of HIV-AIDS.
Under her leadership as Secretary-General
of the International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD),
held in Cairo in 1994, the approach
to reproductive health which includes
empowering women through education
and economic opportunity, was unanimously
agreed to by the international community.
It is under her leadership that the
South-South Initiative was included
in the ICPD PoA in 1994, following
which PPD was formed. As a stunt supporter
of South-South Cooperation, she has
always been since 1994 by the side
of PPD as a guiding force. Her special
assistance to PPD especially in the
early years was instrumental in the
growth of PPD. Among her numerous
national and international awards
and honours, Dr. Sadik was the recipient
of the 2001 United Nations Population
Award for her outstanding contribution
to the awareness of population issues,
and recognition of her significant,
life-long contribution to addressing
women's rights and sexual and reproductive
health rights.
Dr.
Sadik was a member of the UN Secretary-General's
High-Level Panels on, "Threats,
Challenges and Change", and "Alliance
of Civilizations". She is a member
of the Board of Directors of several
national and international organizations,
and author of publications on reproductive
health and family, population and
development, women, and gender and
development.
Mr.
Jyoti Shankar Singh
Former Deputy Executive Director
UNFPA and PPD Permanent Observer
at the United Nations, USA
Mr.
Jyoti Shankar Singh is the former
Deputy Executive Director of the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). He
was the Executive Coordinator of UN
International Conference on Population
in 1984 and UN International Conference
on Population and Development (ICPD)
in 1994. Mr. Singh served as Special
Advisor to Executive Director, UNFPA
on ICPD+5 Review from 1998 to 1999
and was the Executive Coordinator,
United Nations World Conference against
Racism from 2000 to 2001.
Currently
Mr. Jyoti Singh is the Permanent Observer
to the UN for Partners in Population
and Development. Mr. Jyoti Singh played
a key role in the formation of PPD
and has been contributing to PPD and
South-South Cooperation since 1994.
Mr.
Singh is the author of several books
widely studied globally, namely, Creating
a New Consensus on Population, Earthscan,
London, 1998; South to South: Developing
Countries Working Together on Population
and Development (ed.), Population
2005, Washington D.C.,2000; Un nuveo
consenso sobre poblacion, Icaria,
Barcelona, 2001; The Population Challenge
in Asia: Parliamentarians as Advocates
and Policy Makers, Population 2005,
Washington DC and AFPPD, Bangkok,
2002 and 2006.
He
was President of Population 2005 in
the years1999-2005,aglobalnetworkof
individuals with significant experience
in the population field who are committed
to the earliest possible implementation
of the Programme of Action adopted
at the Cairo Conference.
Dr.
Sara Seims
Director, Population Program
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
USA
Dr.
Sara Seims joined the William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation in October
2003 as Director of the Population
Program. Immediately prior she was
president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute
since November 1999, where she led
the organization to a greater involvement
in international reproductive health
issues and behavioral research in
the areas of HIV-AIDS.
Dr.
Seims was associate director of population
sciences at The Rockefeller Foundation
in New York for six years. At the
Foundation, she contributed to the
expansion of international collaboration
in reproductive health and promoted
dialogue between developed and developing
nations on both programmatic and policy
issues relating to women's and reproductive
health. For three consecutive years
she was named by Earth Times as one
of the key actors in sustainable development.
She is very much committed to promote
the ICPD agenda and South-South Cooperation.
Her support to PPD since 1994 has
been remarkable and instrumental in
putting PPD on the rail.
Dr.
Seims is on the board of Nairobi-based
Africa Population and Health Research
and a former member of the board of
directors of Management Sciences for
Health in Boston, where she ran the
population division. She has also
been deputy chief of two divisions
of the United States Agency for International
Development: the Office of Health,
Population and Nutrition in Dakar,
Senegal, and the policy division of
the Office of Population in Washington,
D.C. She is currently a member of
the Board of Directors of the National
AIDS Fund and the National Campaign
to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
and Chair of the Development Committee
of the Population Association of America.
In 2007, she accepted an invitation
to join UNESCO's Global Advisory Group
on HIV and Sex Education.
Dr.
Seims received a Bachelor of Arts
in Anthropology from Rutgers University
and a Ph.D. in Demography from the
University of Pennsylvania. She is
a Fellow of the New York Academy of
Medicine.
Professor
Dr. Nabiha Gueddana
General Director, National Institute
of Family and Population
Ministry of Public Health, Tunisia
Professor
Dr. Nabiha Gueddana is the General
Director, National Office of Family
and Population, Ministry of Public
Health, responsible for the National
Family Planning Programme and Policy
Development in Tunisia; She is currently
a Board Member of and was the first
Chair of Partners in Population and
Development from 1995 to 1998; Previously
she was the Secretary of State for
the Prime Minister in charge of Women's
and Family Affairs and former Secretary
of State for the Ministry of Social
Affairs in charge of Social Protection
and Promotion.
Professor
Gueddana has published many books
and articles in major international
journals. Originally from the island
of Djerba in Tunisia, she is a professor
of paediatrics, and has long been
involved in reproductive health and
family planning activities at the
national, regional and international
levels. Professor Gueddana is recognized
globally for her significant contribution
in promotion of South-South Cooperation
and ICPD Programme of Action.
Dr.
Steven W. Sinding
Former Director General of the International
Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
and Senior Fellow, Guttmacher Institute
Now
a Senior Fellow at the Guttmacher
Institute and independent consultant,
Dr. Steven Sinding retired in 2006
after four years as Director-General
of the International Planned Parenthood
Federation, headquartered in London.
He directed a global federation of
150 member associations and six regional
offices, operating programs in 180
countries around the world.
Dr.
Sinding was Professor of Population
and Family Health and Adjunct Professor
of Public Policy at Columbia University
from 1999 to 2002 where he wrote and
published "Re-engaging with the
Developing World: the Aid Imperative"
(2002).From 1991 to 1999, he directed
the Population Sciences program at
The Rockefeller Foundation, providing
grants for social science, policy,
and biomedical research. In 1994 he
was a member of the United States
delegation to the International Conference
on Population and Development at Cairo
and in 1990-91 was the World Bank's
senior population advisor. He has
been since then an ardent supporter
of South-South Cooperation for the
attainment of ICPD Goals. He is one
of the founding fathers of PPD and
contributed immensely in providing
both financial and technical support
to PPD especially in the early years.
Dr.
Sinding had a 20-year career at the
U.S. Agency for International Development
(1971-1990) during which he served
as Director of the Mission to Kenya
(1986-1990) and Agency Director for
Population (1983-1986). He and his
family also lived in Pakistan and
the Philippines.
Dr.
Sinding has published extensively
on international population and reproductive
health matters and speaks frequently
to both academics and general audiences
on these issues. He is the author
of the article on Family Planning
Programs in the Encyclopedia of Population
and co-editor of Population Matters:
Demographic Change, Economic Growth,
and Poverty in the Developing World
(Oxford: 2001). A Government major
at Oberlin, Dr. Sinding earned a Ph.D.
in political science at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in
1970. He is married to Monica Knorr
and they have two grown daughters.
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