Third meeting of the Working Group for the Follow-up to the Dakar/Ngor Declaration/
International Conference on Population and Development

Dakar, Senegal
18-20 December 2002

PROGRAMME OF WORK

Wednesday, 18 December 2002

Chairperson: Ms. Rokhaya Sene, Director, Human Resource Department, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Senegal

Rapporteur: Mr. B. Vlavonou, ECA Sub Regional Office for West Africa

Objectives: At the end of the day:

  • Participants are aware of the status of the ICPD +10 review process since the last meeting of the Working Group;

  • There is consensus on what needs to be done at the national, sub regional and regional levels in preparations of ICPD+10 review.

08:30 a.m. - 09:00 a.m. - Registration of participants and other administrative matters

09:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Opening of the meeting

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Tea/Coffee break

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Adoption of the agenda and the programme of work

    - Progress with the regional ICPD+10 review (Donatella Giubilaro/ECA)

    - Progress with the global ICPD+10 review (Mr. Lalan Mubiala/UNFPA-Headquarters)

    - Report on the preparatory activities of the APC General Assembly (Mr. B. Abdellatif, AU) and the Union for African Population Studies (Mr. Mbaye Diouf NDiaye, UAPS)

12:30 p.m. - 14:00 p.m. - Lunch Break

14:00 p.m. - 15:00 p.m. - Sub-regional and National ICPD+10 reviews: modalities and perspectives (Mr. W. Kazeze, ECA Sub-regional Office SA / Mme Rockheya Sene, Senegal)

    - Introduction of the TOR of the Working Groups (Laurent Assogba CST/UNFPA - Dakar)

15:00 p.m. - 16:00 p.m. - Working Groups on follow up activities at national, sub regional and regional levels

16:30 p.m. - 16:30 p.m. - Tea/Coffee break

16:30 p.m. - 17:30 p.m. - Presentation of the Working Groups reports

17:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. - Meeting of the Secretariat

Thursday, 19 December 2002

Chairperson: Mr. Josue Dione, Director SDD-ECA

Rapporteur: Mr. W. Kazeze ECA Sub Regional Office for Southern Africa

Objectives: At the end of the day:

    · An agreed Draft ICPD+10 Regional Questionnaire is available.

09: 00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Introduction to the Global and Regional Questionnaires (Mr. Laurent Assogba / Ms. Donatella Giubilaro)

- Introduction of the TORs of the Working Groups on Regional Questionnaire (L. Assogba)

10: 30 a.m.- 11.00 a.m. - Tea/Coffee break

11: 00 a.m.- 12: 30 p.m. - Working Groups on the regional Questionnaire

12: 30 p.m. - 14:00 p.m. - Lunch break

14: 00 p.m. - 15:30 p.m. - Working Groups (continued)

15: 30 p.m. - 16:00 p.m. - Tea/Coffee break

16: 00 p.m. - 17:30 p.m. - Presentation of the report of the Working Groups

17: 30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. - Meeting of the Secretariat

Friday, 20 December 2002

Chair Person: Mr. Lalan Mubiala, Deputy Director UNFPA Africa Division, New York

Rapporteur: Ms. Donatella Giubilaro, Associate Demographer SDD ECA,

Objectives: At the end of the day:

  • A proposed work plan for the ICPD+10 review process is available;
  • The recommendations of the meeting are adopted.

09: 00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Introduction of the TOR of the Working Groups on the work plan (Laurent Assogba CST/UNFPA - Dakar)

- Working Groups on the Work Plan

10: 30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. - Tea/Coffee break

    11: 00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Presentation of the reports of the Working Group

    11: 30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Consideration and adoption of the main

  • recommendations of the meeting

    12: 30 p.m. - 13:00 p.m. - Closure of the meeting