DHAKA, Bangladesh – The Executive Director of Partners in Population and Development (PPD), Professor Dr. Joseph Akinkugbe Adelegan, paid a courtesy call on Ms. Catherine Breen Kamkong, UNFPA Country Representative in Bangladesh, at the UNFPA Bangladesh Country Office in Dhaka. The meeting provided an important opportunity to reaffirm the deep and enduring partnership between PPD and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and to explore avenues for further strengthening collaboration in advancing shared priorities in reproductive health, population, and sustainable development.
During the courtesy call, Professor Adelegan formally introduced himself to Ms. Breen Kamkong and provided a comprehensive briefing on the organisation’s mandate, ongoing programmes, and current strategic direction as an intergovernmental alliance of 28 Member Countries dedicated to promoting South-South and Triangular Cooperation in reproductive health, population, and sustainable development. Professor Adelegan also presented the key priorities and strategic directions of the PPD Strategic Plan 2026 to 2030, which charts the organisation’s institutional ambitions and programmatic commitments for the years ahead, and underscored PPD’s commitment to delivering tangible and measurable results for its Member Countries across the Global South.
A central theme of the meeting was the longstanding and productive relationship between PPD and UNFPA, which spans decades of collaborative engagement at multiple levels of both organisations. Professor Adelegan warmly expressed his profound appreciation to Ms. Breen Kamkong and to UNFPA for the continued and invaluable support that the Fund has extended to PPD’s activities over the years. He noted with particular gratitude that UNFPA’s partnership with PPD extends well beyond the bilateral relationship with the UNFPA Bangladesh Country Office, encompassing active and sustained collaboration with UNFPA Country Offices in PPD Member Countries across all regions, as well as engagement at the level of the PPD Secretariat Headquarters in Dhaka. This multi-dimensional partnership, Professor Adelegan observed, has been a cornerstone of PPD’s ability to advance South-South Cooperation in reproductive health and population development across the developing world.
Ms. Breen Kamkong warmly received the Executive Director and expressed UNFPA’s continued commitment to supporting PPD’s mandate and programmes. The meeting reflected a mutual recognition of the complementarity between UNFPA’s global mandate and PPD’s unique intergovernmental platform as the only organisation in the world fully dedicated to South-South Cooperation in reproductive health, population, and development. Both sides expressed confidence that the partnership between PPD and UNFPA will continue to grow in depth, scope, and impact in the years ahead, under the leadership of the new Executive Director.
