Year 2009 will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the ICPD i.e. ICPD[at]15[dot] The AUC Executive Council during its 12th Session meeting in Addis Ababa took note of the decision of the 6th Ordinary Session of the General Assembly of the African Population Commission and subsequently requested the Chairperson of the African Union Commission to coordinate the 15-year review of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD@15) in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other partners.
In order to fulfil the AUC and the UN General Assembly Mandates, the AUC and ECA will jointly undertake a fifteen-year review of the implementation of the DND and the ICPD Programme of Action in Africa. As part of this ongoing process, in the 2008-2009 biennium, the AUC and ECA are planning to adopt a regional and sub-regional process to review and report on the regional and national implementation of the commitments, with particular emphasis on issues also covered in the MDGs as well as emerging issues on the current international agenda, such as energy and food crisis, climate change, international migration and ageing, etc.