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Director’s Message
Welcome
to the first edition of
PPD WATCH! This publication
aims at continually updating
readers on emerging and
new developments in the
field of Reproductive
Health, Population and
Development through South-South
Cooperation. We intend
to share with you the
South-South initiatives
and interventions that
are steadily contributing
to sustainable development
and thus bringing positive
changes in the millions
of lives in the Southern
hemisphere.
Three
decades of large scale
international development
cooperation in population
and development coupled
with extensive transfer
of technologies and resources
from the industrialized
North to the developing
South have produced a
wide array of knowledge,
experience and expertise
in the Southern countries.
The world witnessed a
great paradigm shift in
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Mr.
Harry Sangeet Jooseery
Executive Director , PPD
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cooperation, i.e. the preponderant
capability of technical
cooperation in population
and development increasingly
shifted to the South. South-South
cooperation emerged as a
complementary force to the
North-South Cooperation,
and received befitting recognition
from the international community
at the UN General Assembly
and in other international
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This
new modality of cooperation
was initially tried mainly on
an ad hoc basis and it produced
encouraging results indicating
an overarching need for its
institutionalization. The Partners
in Population and Development
(PPD), which was launched at
the ICPD 1994 in Cairo, institutionalized
the South-South Cooperation
for the first time in history.
ICPD Programme of Action endorsed
by 179 participating countries,
constitute the strategic framework
for South-South collaboration.
Governments of 10 developing
countries, with huge state-of-the-art
institutional infrastructure
and a critical mass of experts
and professionals in population
and development at their disposal,
formed the Intergovernmental
Alliance with the commitment
to collaborate among themselves
and other developing countries.
Pioneers of the movement like
Steve Sinding, Sara Seims, Jyoti
Singh, Haryono Suyono, Timothy
Stamps and others must be applauded
for initiating the South-South
Cooperation initiative.
By
2004, the Alliance had doubled
its membership from 10 to 21
bringing 54% world population
under its programmatic coverage.
It was conferred with Permanent
Observer Status at the United
Nations in 2002, opened regional
and liaison offices in New York,
Cairo, China and Uganda, established
7 regional networks across the
world, entered into strategic
alliances with a number of international
research institutes, developed
programmatic relationship with
and helped strengthening the
capacity of 40 institutions
and centres of excellence, created
over 1000 leaders of programme
implementation and management,
187 visionary leaders in policy
formulation and programme design,
built capacity of 116 Southern
experts in RH, Population and
Development for marketing in
the developing and developed
countries.
Many
exciting developments are constantly
taking place on all fronts of
the South-South cooperation
in the developing world and
we intend to keep the international
community abreast of these developments
through this monthly bulletin.
We would appreciate receiving
your contributions for publication
in the PPD Watch.
My
best wishes to PPD Watch, its
editor, contributors and readers.
Annual
Work Planning Retreat of Partners
in Population and Development
PPD
Secretariat had an Annual
Work Planning Retreat during
28-29 January in Cox’s
Bazar, Bangladesh. The workshop
was attended by all the staff
members of the PPD Secretariat
in Dhaka including support
staff. The objectives set
for the two days intensive
exercise workshop were:
1.
Revisit experiences
to surface shortcomings
and lessons learnt;
2. Position organization
in the changed context,
nationally & globally;
3. Review commitments
(for 2007) and identify
challenges ahead;
4. Design strategic
directions to respond to
commitments & challenges;
5. Align organizational
strengths and weaknesses
to meet the expectations.
PPD
Staff at the Annual Work Plannig
Retreat 2007
End
of the retreat staff came out
with a work plan for 2007. In
the process past activities
were reviewed and prioritize
the work for future based on
PPD mandate. A draft report
of the retreat is being prepared.
Final version will be available
to the PPD web very soon.
Workshop
on South-South Cooperation
on Population and Sustainable
Development, Sana'a, Yemen.
An
one day workshop was organized
by the National Population
Council /Technical Secretariat
of Yemen in cooperation and
coordination with PPD on 25th
of December 2006 in Sana’a,
Yemen titled “South-South
Cooperation on Population
and Sustainable Development”.
About 100 participants attended
the workshop from the Government,
NGOs, International Organizations,
Donor communities and Local
and International Mass Media
and press. The purpose of
the workshop was:
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to introduce PPD
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examine how South-South
cooperation can contribute
to the sustainable development.
H.E.
Mr. Amin Maaroof Al-Janadthe,
Board Member of PPD and Secretary
General of NPC, Yemen
delivering an inaugural speech
in the workshop.
In his left, Mr. Mutaher Zabara,
the Secretary assistant of NPC
and in the right, Mr. Abdul-Malik
Sharafuddin, PCC of Yemen.
H.E.
Mr. Amin Maaroof Al-Janadthe,
Board Member of PPD and Secretary
General of NPC, Yemen delivering
an inaugural speech in the workshop.
In his left, Mr. Mutaher Zabara,
the Secretary assistant of NPC
and in the right, Mr. Abdul-Malik
Sharafuddin, PCC of Yemen.
The workshop was inaugurated
and chaired by H.E. Mr. Amin
Maaroof Al-Janadthe, Board Member
of PPD and Secretary General
of National Population Council
(NPC), Yemen. Honorable Minister
in his speech stressed on the
importance of conducting the
workshop in Yemen to introduce
the PDD and its activities.
He also mentioned the importance
of enhancing the cooperation
between member countries of
the alliance, institutions and
individuals in areas of mutual
interests within the south-
south collaboration.
A welcome speech was delivered
by Mr. Abdul-Malik Sharafuddin,
PCC of Yemen. In his speech
he said member countries of
the alliance is rich with experts
, knowledge and experiences
and these knowledge can be shared
among member states and consultants
can be used in the areas of
population and development.
The participants were very interested
to know more about PPD. They
said that the knowledge and
expertise of PPD need to be
more exposed and exchanged among
the member countries.
International
Workshop on "Consulting
for Results" for the PPD
Consultants from the Francophone
countries, Rabat, Morocco.
PPD
and Ministry of Health, Morocco
jointly organized an International
Workshop on "Consulting
for Results" for the PPD
Consultants from the Francophone
countries in Rabat, Morocco
from 5 -7 December 2006. The
workshop was attended by sixteen
mid to senior level professionals
in reproductive health, population
and development from four selected
francophone member countries
of PPD namely Mali, Morocco,
Senegal and Tunisia. The workshop
was officially opened by Dr.
Fouad Hamadi, Gerneral Secretary
of Ministry of Health, Morocco
and was attended by representatives
from the international development
agencies, UN agencies, ambassadors
of the diplomatic missions of
the participating countries,
senior officials from the Ministry
of Health, Morocco and the local
media including press and electronic.
Mr. Harry Sangeet Jooseery,
Executive Director of PPD made
a Statement in the Ceremony
where he thanked the Government
of Morocco and welcomed the
participants wishing them successful
deliberations in the workshop.
Participants
of the workshop on “Consulting
for Results”
The
training was conducted in French
and the key Facilitator was
Mr. Amegan Ayaménou Koami
Eloi from the Center for African
Studies (CAFS) in Lomé,
Togo. The three day training
workshop was carried out with
active participation, enthusiasm
and interest from the candidates.
The objective of the workshop
was to strengthen the consulting
capability of reproductive health,
population and development professionals.
The course focused on reflection
on past consulting experiences,
the concept of consultant roles,
specific skill building exercises
were also introduced to emphasize
the interpersonal aspects of
the consultant-client relationship.
Mr.
Jooseery met H.E. Dr. Mohamed
Cheikh Biadillah, Secretary,
PPD Board and Honourable Minister,
Ministry of Health, Morocco
in his office
During
his stay in Morocco, Mr. Jooseery
met with H.E. Dr. Mohamed Cheikh
Biadillah, Secretary, PPD Board
and Honorable Minister, Ministry
of Health, Morocco to discuss
future areas of South-South
Cooperation and express his
gratitude to the Minister for
accepting to host the workshop.
As Mr. Jooseery met the Honorable
Minister for the first time,
he briefed about PPD’s
activities since he joined.
New
staff in PPD Secretariat
PPD
Secretariat appointed 4 new
staff to join the team in Dhaka.
They are as follows-
1. Mr. Moussa
LY, Programme Officer (International
staff from Senegal).
2. Dr. A.T.M Faruq,
Programme Officer.
3. Ms. K.A. Mahal
Sadhona, Programme Officer.
4. Ms. Shermin
Ferdoushy, Office Secretary.
Their
brief biography is available
on the PPD Website (www.partners-popdev.org).
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