Recommendations from Countdown2015Europe to the High Level Health Consultation in Botswana 5-6 March

The health working group of the Countdown2015Europe has forwarded the attached recommendations to Swedish Government, as one of the co-chairs for the health consultation

The recommendations include addressing the health needs of women and girls from the start; universal access to sexual and reproductive health rights as the fast way forward; and equal access and equal rights as the right thing to do. In the framing of the future agenda for health they point to the importance of maximizing healthy life expectancy; low levels of risk factors; universal health coverage; and paying more attention to measuring decreasing social, cultural and legal barriers and national policies that prevent equal access to health services. 

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Sign on Letter on SRH and the next MDGs

In preparation for the forthcoming High Level Health Consultation in Botswana 5-6 March and the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons for Post 2015 meeting in Bali 25-7 March, IPPF is coordinating a sign on letter to present to delegates to  ask them to include SRH indicators in the health component of the next development framework.

Organizations wishing to the letter to go to the  Botswana meeting should note that no changes to the text can be accepted. 

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Latest news … Population Dynamics Outcome document just posted on website

A Call to Integrated Population Dynamics into the Post-2015 Development, Recommendations of the Global Thematic Consultation on Population Dynamics the Post-2015 Development Agenda, the outcome document for the Thematic Consultation has just been posted on the World We Want 2015 website. You are invited to review and add comments to the 40-page document.

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Latest information on Population Dynamics Thematic Consultation 26 February 2013

The Outcome Document from the Consultation (including inputs from Civil Society) is going to be made available for comment shortly. In the meantime, please make sure that you comment on the e-discussions that are still open. In addition to the Outcome Document, the Dhaka High Level Leadership Meeting will be negotiating the Dhaka Declaration, which is a policy document. It is important to find out if your Government is going to be represented at this meeting and, if so, through which Government Ministry. 

Population Dynamics Civil Society Consultation

Over 40 representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) working in the following areas: population growth, sexual and reproductive health and rights, aging, migration and urbanization participated in a consultation convened in Geneva on 18-19 February, by the Governments of Bangladesh and India, UNFPA, International Organization for Migration, the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs and UN Habitat. The International Labour Organization and UNAIDS also were present at the meeting.

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Contribute to the e-discussion on Population Dynamics

A new discussion area has been added to the e-discussion on Population Dynamics, Public health objectives for achieving.

Please contribute to this discussion and to the others, if you haven’t done so already, using the Beyond 2015 Population Dynamics Position Paper. 

Position Paper on Population Dynamics posted on Beyond 2015 Website

The Position Paper on Population Dynamics has been posted on the Beyond 2015 website.

It recognizes that population dynamics and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) will have a major impact on the post-2015 development agenda and the achievement of socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable economic development. It discusses population growth; migration; urbanization; population density; and age structures, and associated with the latter, young and older people. Furthermore it recognizes that population dynamics should be addressed in ways that respect and protect human rights.

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Information on CSOs Forum and Outreach Session of the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons, Bali 23th to 25th March 2013 and the Bali Youth Multi-stakeholders Meeting on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Civil Society Organizations

Applications are now open to national, regional, and global CSOs who want to participate in the upcoming CSOs Outreach and Consultation Day during the Fourth UN High Level Panel Meeting on Post-2015 to be held in Bali, Indonesia from 25 -27 March 2013 under the theme of: “Global Partnership”.

24 March CSOs Pre-Consultative Forum on March 24th  2013,  with 150 participants (50 International and 100 Indonesian) CSOs will also use this platform to review outcomes of various CSOs engagements that have taken place.

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First Announcement -- Stakeholder Outreach Events at the 4th High Level Panel (HLP) meeting on the Post 2015 Development Agenda in Bali, 25 March 2013

Information has been made available on the fourth consultative meeting of the High Level Panel in Bali, Indonesia from 25 to 27 March 2013. The discussions of the Panel in Bali, Indonesia will focus on Partnership and Cooperation for Development, with a focus on strategies for implementation and opportunities to shape a global consensus on the new development agenda.

In keeping with the 24 Framing Questions developed by the Panel in November 2012, key issues that will be discussed in this meeting include:

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Update on Population Dynamics Thematic Consultation, 14 February 2014

There are four on-going e-discussions for the Population Dynamics Thematic Consultation on:

• How can we ensure a human-rights based and gender-responsive approach to addressing population dynamics?
• Should we consider expanding targets with respect to individual population issues to include such issues as high fertility, demographic bonus, ageing, urbanization, or migration? What would be the disadvantage of broadening the set of targets?
• Is it possible to develop a common framework for integrating different population dynamics into the post-2015 development agenda?
• Why and how should population dynamics be integrated into the post-2015 development agenda?

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