Partners in Population and Development Africa Regional Office (PPD ARO) organized a two day Eastern Africa Reproductive Health Network (EARHN) Coordination meeting on 21-22nd March 2017 at Imperial Royal Hotel in Kampala. The meeting agreed on a common understanding of the RH/FP situation and challenges in the Eastern Africa Region in the context of the …
Dr. Joe Thomas, Executive Director of PPD represented PPD at the UN Commission on Population and Development, Fiftieth Session United Nations Head Quarters, New York, 3-7 April 2017. Click here to view the Statement.
Click below to read the statement delivered by Dr. Joe Thomas, Executive Director of PPD at the Eastern Africa Reproductive Health Network (EARHN) Coordination Meeting “From MDGs to SDGs: Review and Development of EARHN Strategic Plan 2017–2021”, 21–22 March 2017, Kampala, Uganda http://www.partners-popdev.org/speech/statement-at-eastern-africa-reproductive-health-network-earhn-coordination-meeting-from-mdgs-to-sdgs-review-and-development-of-earhn-strategic-plan-2017-2021-21-2/
The conference adopted Dakar Call for Action. Click here to download the document.
PPD Permanent Observer at the UN is pleased to share the following release of three new data outputs on family planning. This has been just announced by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). Please click on the links for details. 1. WORLD CONTRACEPTIVE USE 2016 DATA SET Includes up-to-date empirical (survey-based) contraceptive …
On 13 October, the General Assembly appointed by acclamation the former Prime Minister of Portugal, António Guterres, as the next United Nations Secretary-General, to succeed Ban Ki-moon when he steps down on 31 December. The GA adopted the consensus resolution put forward by its President, Peter Thomson. Earlier the UN Security Council recommended Mr. Guterres’ name …
Casting an overview of challenges facing social development – ranging from inequalities in employment through specific issues facing rural populations – the UNG Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) delegates during the week called for closer international cooperation and solidarity with the world’s most vulnerable groups. In his opening remarks Mr.Wu Hongbo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic …
22 September 2016, PPD Secretariat, Dhaka, Bangladesh PPD, the intergovernmental organization to promote South-South Cooperation has an observer status in United Nations. As the observer of the UN, As part of its advocacy efforts, PPD traditionally tables statements on emerging issue at the General Assembly. At the recently concluded 71st Session of the UN General …
