Parliamentarians active with EPF at 2013 Addis Ababa Family Planning Conference

Parliamentarians from around the world will be at the Third International Conference on Family Planning (#ICFP2013) in Addis Ababa, both as participants and speakers. EPF is teaming up with its partner networks from Africa (APFPD) and Asia (AFPPD) and with its APPG from the UK (UK APPG on Population, Development and Reproductive Health) to organise a number of events involving them:

Panel presentation: “Generating political will to promote Family Planning and bring about the Demographic Dividend” (OPEN TO ALL PARTICIPANTS)

Thursday 14th November, 2:30pm - 3:50pm - Large Conference Hall

Parliamentarian champions of Family Planning will demonstrate how they can play a vital role in designing, promoting, legislating for and implementing family planning programs in both donor and partner countries. Its target audience is anyone who has an interest in promoting family planning policies in a political context – either domestically or overseas – and would like to learn more about what their elected representatives can do to further their cause. 

Speakers will include:

• Hon. Marie-Rose Nguini Effa MP (Cameroon), Member of the Pan-African Parliament, Vice-President of APFPD
• Baroness Jenny Tonge (UK House of Lords), President of EPF
• Hon. Cong. Maria Lourdes Acosta (Philippines), Member of AFPPD 

Panel presentation: “The Big Picture: Family Planning and Sustainable Development” (OPEN TO ALL PARTICIPANTS)

Thursday 14th November, 4:20pm - 5:40pm - Old Building Medium Conference Hall

EPF President Baroness Jenny Tonge will present the prize-winning report entitled “Sex, Ideology, Religion: 10 Myths about World Population Growth.” Published by fellow UK APPG member – and long-term parliamentary supporter of Family Planning - Hon. Richard Ottaway MP, the report won the Population Institute's Global Media Award for best essay in 2012 for ground-breaking research into population growth. It challenges common misunderstandings surrounding family planning and population growth, and provides illuminating insights into family planning successes and challenges. More recently Hon. Richard Ottaway MP presented the report at EPF’s G8 and G20 Parliamentarians’ Conference on Family Planning in the Future of Development in London in May 2013.

We warmly invite you all to attend.
 
Meeting of Francophone Parliamentarians from West Africa on Ouagadougou 2011 Conference Commitments (UPON INVITATION ONLY)

Thursday 14th November, 10:30am - 2pm

9 West African nations signed the Ouagadougou Declaration on Population, Development and Family Planning. In it they pledged to take a range of measures to boost reproductive health programs in the West African region. This workshop, organised by EPF to complement the ICFP, aims to promote dialogue between parliamentarians from across the region to strengthen the commitment and action of legislators in the area to family planning.

The meeting will feature presentations from:

• Hon. Marie-Rose Nguini Effa MP (Cameroon), Member of the Pan-African Parliament, Vice-President of APFPD
• Lucien Kouakou, IPPF African Regional Office Director
• Prof. Dr. Marleen Temmermann, Director, WHO Reproductive Health Department (TBC)
• Benoit Kalasa, Director UNFPA Regional Office for West and Central Africa (TBC)
• The Coordination Unit for the Ouagadougou Partnership and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Panel Presentation: “Accountability for Resources: Tracking Funding for RH and FP from the EU and its Member States” (OPEN TO ALL PARTICIPANTS)

Friday 15th November, 10:30am - 11:50am, Ground Floor Briefing Room 3

Since 2007 EPF and DSW have collaborated with the support of Countdown 2015 Europe and NIDI to publish Euromapping, the definitive guide to Global population Assistance. This year the sixth edition comes at an important time in the current debates on the post-2015 agenda and on global commitments to SRHR, as the consequences of the financial crisis are still being felt in governments’ spending across the world. Euromapping is the vital reference material for SRHR advocates requiring evidence for which areas of SRHR require the most attention from donors, and this will be the first public presentation of this year’s findings.
 
We warmly invite you all to attend. You can access last year’s edition here.
 
Other activities at the conference for parliamentarians will include talks, briefings and site visits.

For more information about any of these initiatives please do not hesitate to contact EPF: secretariat@epfweb.org.  

We hope to see you in Addis Ababa!