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Edited by
Jyoti Shankar Singh

Published by
Population 2005
107 Second Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002

ISBN 0-9700060-1-2 $5.00

Achieving Population
and Development
Goals by 2015

This monograph constitutes a summary report of the Global Population Forum held in Washington, D.C. May 2004. Convened during the 10th anniversary year of the historic International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo), the forum assessed the advances in the decade following Cairo and the remaining challenges at the midpoint of the 20-year program of action agreed at Cairo. It includes the Washington Declaration, the final statement adopted by the forum, a summary report of the forum, five principal presentations and a final chapter entitled Achieving Population and Development Goals by 2015, written by Jyoti Shankar Singh, President, Population 2005.

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Written by
Jyoti Shankar Singh

Published by
Population 2005
107 Second Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002

ISBN 0-9700060-3-9 $10.00

The Population Challenge in Asia
Parliamentarians as Advocates and Policy Makers

This highly readable book, written by Jyoti Shankar Singh, traces the history of how Asian parliamentarians have built up over the last two decades the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) as a strong and effective regional organization, devoted to meeting the population and development challenges facing the Asia and Pacific region. It also documents the main activities of national parliamentary groups on population and development. In point of fact, many of these groups were established with the assistance of AFPPD itself. The book also points out the important role that AFPPD has played in promoting regional co-operation in other parts of the world and in organizing a large number of international conferences that focused on the global UN conferences dealing with population, women and sustainable development issues. In its last chapter, the book summarizes the accomplishments of AFPPD and its national committees and outlines the challenges before them in fulfilling the goals and objectives of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

The book, in my view, is essential reading for all those interested in population and development issues in Asia and the Pacific. I highly commend it to my parliamentary colleagues.

Yoshio Yatsu
Member of Parliament, Japan
Chairman, Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD)

Jyoti Shankar Singh is a former Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA. He also served as Executive Coordinator of the 1984 International Conference on Population and the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. During 1998-1999, he was Special Adviser to the Executive Director of UNFPA on ICPD+5 review. He is President of Population 2005 – a global network of individuals with significant experience in the population field who are committed to the earliest possible implementation of the Programme of Action adopted by the Cairo Conference.

Edited by
Jyoti Shankar Singh

Published by
Population 2005
107 Second Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002

ISBN 0-9700060-0-4 $21.00

SOUTH TO SOUTH
Developing Countries Working Together
On Population and Development

South-South cooperation is increasingly seen as an innovative, cost-effective and result-oriented modality for transfer or exchange among developing countries of relevant knowledge and experience in the areas of reproductive health and population. The preparatory process leading to the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo gave South-South cooperation particular impetus. Recognition of the need to give this concept a specific framework of its own led to a decision by a group of 10 developing countries to establish the Partners in Population and Development (PPD) as an intergovernmental initiative, during the 1994 Conference.

More recently, the five-year review of the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action has provided concrete evidence of the widespread support the concept enjoys among developing countries. Also, multilateral organizations such as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Bank as well as many other donors have demonstrated their interest in supporting a variety of South-South projects.

This volume traces the history of how South-South cooperation in reproductive health and population has developed and grown in recent years, and analyses the prospects and opportunities for promoting and strengthening it in future, with particular attention to the role of Partners in Population and Development. It mainly includes edited and updated versions of major written contributions submitted by internationally recognized experts to the International Seminar on South-South-South cooperation organized by 2050 (a Japanese NGO concerned with population and development issues) and Partners in Population and Development in Tokyo in 1999.