| 31
October, 2011
2011
Annual PCC meeting held in Pretoria,
South Africa
Pretoria,
South Africa —
PPD
and the Government of South Africa
jointly organized the PCC meeting
on 31 October 2011 in Pretoria, South
Africa. The objective of the meeting
was to review and discuss PPD activities
and capacity building of the Member
countries’ focal points. The
meeting was attended by international
experts and PCCs of PPD member states.
Dr. Harry S. Jooseery inaugurated
the one day meeting.
Participants
of the PCC Meeting
In
this events, the PCCs were oriented
on Research based Programming on unwanted
pregnancy among women and adolescent
girls and on population stabilization
strategy of selected PPD member countries.
Resource persons from Population Communication
and Population Council also addressed
these issues and these have proved
very productive.
Dr.
Ian Askew Research Director, Strengthening
Evidence for Programming on Unintended
Pregnancy (STEP UP) of which PPD is
an important partner stressed on unwanted
pregnancy among women and adolescent
girls and pleaded for more research
based programs. Dr. Robert Gillespie
President of Population communication
stressed on the need to stabilization
population in PPD member states and
gave example of successful approaches
in 8 PPD member States namely, Kenya,
Mali, Zimbabwe, Yemen, Ghana, Ethiopia,
Nigeria and Senegal.
The
participants appreciated and congratulated
PPD for their initiatives. They agreed
that these will help them to play
greater role in South -South Cooperation
and commitment to pursue the goals
of ICPD and MDGs.
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