Parliamentarians make strongest ever call to implement the ICPD Programme of Action and for the full integration of its principles in the post-2015 development agenda

 The Stockholm Statement of Commitment, which was agreed upon unanimously by all the parliamentarians present at  the 6thInternational Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (IPCI 2014), represents the strongest call ever to implement the Cairo Programme of Action. Parliamentarians committed to mobilize their constituencies and governments to ensure that the Cairo principles are fully integrated in the post-2015 global development agenda and that human rights, gender equality, women and young people are at its heart.

The 2014 Statement of Commitment:

• Emphasises the critical links between a country’s population and its ability to achieve sustained economic development. 
• Calls for the integration of population dynamics in all development planning at national and subnational levels. 
• Stresses the need to “keep the girl child, including married girls and pregnant girls, in school at all levels of education without discrimination.” 
• Commits to designing “policies and programmes that harness the demographic dividend through enhancing the capabilities of young people to contribute to social and economic development and innovation.”

For Stockholm Statement of Commitment click here.