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DRAFT PROGRAMME OF WORK

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA
JOINT ECA/OAU/ADB SECRETARIAT
Yaounde, Cameroon 28-31 January 2002

Monday, 28 January 2002
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: - Registration of participants and other administrative matters
10:00 a.m. -    13:00 p.m.: Opening of the meeting (Agenda item 1)
Adoption of the agenda and the programme of work (Agenda item 2)
Report on regional/sub-regional and global follow-up meetings (Agenda item 3.1)
13:00 p.m. - 14:30 p.m.: Lunch Break
14.30 p.m - 16:00 p.m.: - Reports from other regional and sub-regional institutions (Agenda item 3.1 continued)
16:00 p.m. - 16:30 p.m. - Tea/Coffee break
16:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. State of the demographic transition in Africa (Agenda item 3.2a)
Report on prospects for fertility decline in high fertility countries (Agenda item 3.2b)
Tuesday, 29 January 2002
09:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.: - HIV/AIDS in Africa: An overview (Agenda item 3.2c)
- Impact of HIV/AIDS on Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa (Agenda item 3.2d)
10:30 a.m.- 11.00 a.m.: - Tea/Coffee break
11:00 a.m.- 12: 30 p.m.: - Demographic and socio-economic indicators for regular monitor and evaluation of population programmes (Agenda item 3.2e)
12:30 p.m. - 14:30 p.m. - Lunch break
14:30 p.m. - 16:00 p.m. - Consideration and discussion of country reports on population matters, policies and interventions in reproductive rights and reproductive health, with special reference to HIV/AIDS (Agenda item 4a)
16:00 p.m. - 16:30 p.m - Tea/Coffee break
16:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. - Consideration and discussion of country reports (Agenda item 4a continued)
Wednesday, 30 January 2002
09:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.: - Discussion on population perpectives in the NEPAD with a view to formulating proposals for mainstreaming population into the NEPAD (Agenda item 4b)
10:30 a.m.- 11.00 a.m.: - Tea/Coffee break
11.00a.m. - 12:30 a.m.: - Discussion on population perpectives in the NEPAD (Agenda item 4b continued)
12:30 p.m. - 14:30 p.m.: - Lunch break
14:30 p.m. - 16:00 p.m.: - Consideration and adoption of proposals on ICPD+10 in Africa region (Agenda item 5)
16:00 p.m. - 16:30 p.m.: - Tea/Coffee break
16:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m.: - Drafting of proposals on population and development component in the NEPAD
Thursday, 31 January 2002
08:30 a.m. - 10:.00 a.m.: - Presentation of the PEDA Model (Agenda item 6a)
- Role of the partnership between governmental and non governmental organizations in the management of the nexus issues (Agenda item 6b)
- Any other business (Agenda item 7)
10:00 a.m. - 10:.30 a.m.: - Tea/Coffee break
10:30 a.m. - 12:.30 p.m.: - Drafting of the main recommendations of the meeting
12:30 p.m. - 14:.30 p.m: - Lunch break
14:30 p.m. - 16.00 p.m.: - Drafting of the main recommendations of the meeting (continued)
16:00 p.m. - 18.00 p.m.: - Consideration and adoption of the main recommendations of the meeting including the proposals on population and development component in the NEPAD (Agenda item 8)
- Closure of the meeting (Agenda item 9)

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