Yemen joined PPD in 2002.
- National Population Council / Technical Secretariat of Yemen in cooperation and coordination with PPD organized a workhop on 25th of December 2006 in Sana’a, Yemen under the slogan of “South-South Cooperation on Population and Sustainable Development”. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce PPD among individuals, national and international organizations and governments and to examine how S-S cooperation contributes to the sustainable development of the member states.
- PPD in collaboration with Technical Secretariat of National Population Council, Yemen organized a training in Sana’a during 8-10 August 2005. It was attended by 13 participants from 5 countries in Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Sahara Africa namely, Yemen, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Ghana.
- Yemen is collaborating with neighbouring PPD member countries on training RH health workers. Tunisia and Yemen, for example, initiated a joint proposal on RH cooperation.
- In September 2003, Yemen launched a visibility initiative with the media and national stakeholders on the role of South-South collaboration in population, RH and FP.
- A regional conference on population, health productivity and family planning was held in Sana’a in May 2004 under the slogan, “Ten years since Cairo Conference on Population and Development: 1994-2004, from recommendations to obligations and implementation.” The aim of the conference, organised by the Yemeni Family Caring Association, under the supervision of the International Family Planning Union, was to, among others, evaluate the progress achieved by Yemen in the field of population, health productivity and family planning. It also considered activities that had not yet been implemented, and discussed the difficulties, challenges, and funding issues of population, health productivity and family planning based on the recommendations of Cairo Population and Development Conference. Furthermore, it set the priorities in the fields of population, health productivity and family planning in five key areas: AIDS, youths, teenagers, social kind and services.