The 13th Inter-Ministerial Conference of Partners in Population and Development (PPD) was held in Dakar, Senegal in November 2016 with a focus on challenges for population and development issues in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In February 2016, H.E. Mr. Coly Seck, Ambassador of Senegal to the United Nations in Geneva chaired a ‘Geneva Ambassadors’ Briefing’ on the outcome of the Inter-Ministerial Conference.
The main purpose1 of the Geneva Ambassadors’ Briefing was to follow up on the Dakar Call for Action;2 show examples of actual South-South cooperation in the field of population and development under the auspices of PPD;3 and define an agenda for mobilizing health diplomacy on these issues among the Geneva missions.