SADC's Ministers'Conference on  the Review of the fifteen years of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP) Programme of Action (P A) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region.

The SADC ICPD+15 review report is aimed at providing an overview of progress in implementing the ICPD PoA in the fifteen ountries (viz. Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Mauritius, adagascar, Angola, Seychelles, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Malawi) that constitute the SADC Region. The report provides insight on how member states have fared in implementing the ICPD PoA. The report also forms part of the continental appraisal of the 15th Anniversary of the ICPD-PoA being prepared for Africa by the UNECA. These reports will also help in identifying areas where member states need to work together to improve their population and development indicators.

Africa Regional Review Report.

ICPD and the MDGs: Working as One

Fifteen-Year Review of the Implementation of the
ICPD PoA in Africa – ICPD at 15 (1994 – 2009)

Executive Summary:

Year 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), and the 17th anniversary of the 1992 Dakar/Ngor Declaration (DND) on Population, Family and Sustainable Development. The ICPD adopted a 20-year Programme of Action (PoA) with a broad mandate on interrelationships between population, sustained economic growth and sustainable development, and advances in the education, economic status and empowerment of women.

Front page of the Review of the fifteen years of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP) Programme of Action (P A) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region

17 JULY
SADC MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE ON CPD + 15
PRETORIA
SOUTH AFRICA
2009