Fourth Meeting of the Follow-up Committee on the implementation of the DND and the ICPD-PA

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

Theme :
Population perspectives in the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)¹

1. Opening of the meeting.

2. Adoption of the agenda and organizational matters.

3. Follow-up actions to the recommendations of the DND/ICPD:

3.1 Report on regional/sub-regional and global follow-up meetings.

3.2 Monitoring of population dynamics and population programmes:

1. State of the demographic transition in Africa : An overview;
2. Report on « prospects for fertility decline in high fertility countries »;
3. HIV/AIDS in Africa : An overview ;
4. Impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa ;
5. Demographic and socio-economic indicators for regular monitoring and evaluation of population programmes.

4. General debate on « population perspectives in the New Partnership for Africa's Development  (NEPAD)» :

1. Country experience in population matters : Policies and interventions in « reproductive rights and reproductive health, with special reference to HIV/AIDS »;
2. Mainstreaming population into the NEPAD: Key issues.

5. Consideration and adoption of proposals on the ten-year review and evaluation of the implementation of ICPD in Africa (ICPD+10).

6. Population, environment, agriculture and development interactions (nexus):

1. Modelling the interactions for advocacy and policy analysis: the PEDA Model ;
2. Role of the partnership between governmental and non governmental organizations in the management of the nexus issues.

7. Any other business.

8. Adoption of the main recommendations of the fourth meeting of the Follow-up Committee including proposals on population and development component in the NEPAD

9. Closure of the meeting.

1 Also referred to as the New African Initiative

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