Title: Belgian Platform on Population and Development Plateforme belge pour la population et le dveloppemen
1Belgian Platform on Population and Development
Plate-forme belge pour la population et le
développementBelgisch Platform voor Bevolking en
Ontwikkeling http//www.platformpopdev.be
2- Active members of the Platform
- Objectives of the Platform
- Achievements of the Platform
- Challenges
31. Active members of the Platform
- Is a civil society initiative - Established in
2000 - The Platform on Population and Development brings
together - various NGOs focusing on international
development programmes - Experts/ representatives of academic/research
institutions - Platform meetings frequently attended by
representatives of various ministries and of the
federal and regional administrations - Involved
- In Population issues
- In sexual and reproductive health and rights
issues - Steering Committee prepares
- Meetings agenda
- Reference documents
- Annual Conference
- No structural financial support
41.1. Steering Committe
- Adrass
- International Centre for Reproductive Health
(ICRH)/UGent - ITM
- Monde selon les Femmes
- Studiedienst van de Vlaamse Regering
51.2. Active members
- Adrass asbl
- Studiedienst van de Vlaamse Regering (SVR)
- Collectif des Femmes asbl
- Médecins du Monde/ Dokters van de Wereld Belgium
- Groupe international de la fédération laique des
plannings familiaux - Groupement d'hommes et de femmes africains et
européens pour l'Abolition des Mutilations
Sexuelles féminines (GAMS-Belgique) - Institut de démographie Université catholique
de Louvain - International Centre for Reproductive Health
(ICRH)/UGent
61.2. Active members (2)
- Institut de Médecine Tropicale/ Prins Leopold
Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde (ITG) - La Fédération Laique de Centres de Planning
Familial (FLCPF) - Le Monde Selon les Femmes (LMSF)
- Observatoire socio-épidémiologique sida
sexualités - Planning Marolles
- sensoa vzw
- Service d'Information et Formation Amérique
Latine (SEDIF) - Sireas
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
71994, Cairo, International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD)The ICPD
paradigm shift
- Reproductive health is a state of complete
physical, mental and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in
all matters relating to the reproductive system
and to its functions and processes... - (ICPD Programme of Action, paragraph 7.2)
82. Objectives of the Platform2.1. General
objective
- To seek ways to enhance the implementation of the
Cairo Programme of Action -
92.2. Specific objectives
- To formulate recommendations that can be useful
to the Belgian government with respect to the
development of international co-operation
policies - To contribute to the annual CPD at the UN (member
of the Belgian Delegation) - To enhance involvement of international
development organisations in Belgium in the
implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action - To answer specific questions regarding population
and development
103. Achievements of the Platform
- International Conferences in preparation of
annual Commissions on Population and Development
(CPD) - Sexual and reproductive health and rights (CPD
2002) - Education for all (CPD, 2003)
- ICPD 10 (CPD, 2004)
- International migration and development (CPD,
2006) - Changing age structures of populations (CPD,
2007) - Urbanisation and sustainable development (CPD,
2008) - Millennium Development Goals (CPD, 2009)
- Support to Belgian cooperation and development
policy
113.1. International Conferences 3.1.1. Sexual and
Reproductive Health and Rights and Development
Co-operation
- Brussels, 19-21 November 2001
- Under the auspices of the Belgian EU presidency
- Working groups
- sexual rights of young people
- the responsibilities of both men and women
- the quality of health care services
- the integration of HIV/AIDS in sexual and
reproductive health services - Recommendations brought to CPD in New York, April
2002 by a representative of the platform (Member
of the Belgian Delegation)
123.1.2. Obstacles to Education for all
- Brussels, 27-28 February 2003
- Workshops
- Universal access to quality education
- Non-formal education (in general)
- Promote greater responsibility and awareness on
the interrelationships between population and
sustainable development (experience of the
western countries). - Recommendations brought to CPD in New York, April
2003 by a representative of the platform (Member
of the Belgian Delegation)
133.1.3. Ten years after ICPD in Cairo
Realisations and challenges
- Brussels, 2 March 2004
- Workshops
- Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights,
including HIV/AIDS - International migration and development
- Recommendations brought to CPD ICPD 10" in New
York, March 2004 by a representative of the
platform (Member of the Belgian Delegation)
143.1.4. Migration and Development
- Brussels, 13 March 2006
- Workshops
- Mobility and gender
- Migration and health
- Recommendations brought to CPD International
migrations and development in New York, April
2006 by a representative of the platform (Member
of the Belgian Delegation)
153.1.5. Population Ageing Towards an Improvement
of the Quality of life?
- Brussels, 1 March 2007
- Recommendations brought to CPD The changing age
structures of populations and their implications
for development in New York, April 2007 by a
representative of the Platform (Member of the
Belgian Delegation)
163.1.6. Urbanisation and sustainable development
- Brussels, 25 February 2008
- Workshops
- Economic aspects
- Social aspects
- Environmental aspects
- Recommendations brought to CPD in New York, April
2008 by a representative of the Platform -
17 Links between ICPD and the MDGs MDGs incorporate
ICPD Goals as follows
- MDGs
- Achieve universal primary education (2) Gender
(3) - Reduce child mortality (4)
- Improve maternal health (5)
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (6)
- Goals 4, 5, 6
- Added as a target of MDG 5 in 2006
- ICPD Goals
- Access to primary school (4.8, 11.6) girls
education (ICPD5, 34, 35(c)) - Reduction of infant and under-five child
mortality (8.16) - Maternal mortality reduction (8.21)
- Reduction in HIV infection rate among 15 to 24
year olds (ICPD5, 70) - Access to primary health care (7.6)
- Universal Access to RH
18Current international context
- Millennium Development Goals (adopted by 189
countries in 2000) - 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- 2. Achieve universal primary education
- 3. Promote gender equity and empowerment of women
- 4. Reduce child mortality
- 5. Improve maternal health
- 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
- 8. Develop a global partnership for development
19- The MDGs particularly the eradication of
extreme poverty cannot be achieved if questions
of population and reproductive health are not
squarely addressed. - And this means stronger efforts to promote
womens rights and greater investment in
education and health, including reproductive
health and family planning - Kofi Annan, ICPD at 10 Asia Conference 2002
203.1.7. ICPD and MDGs Convergences and divergences
- Brussels, February 17-18, 2009
- Workshops
- MDG 1 Reduce extreme poverty and hunger
- MDG 2 Ensure primary education for all
- MDG 5 Improve maternal health
213.2. Support to the Belgian cooperation and
development policy
- Platform representative at CPD April 2005
"Population, Development and HIV/AIDS, with
particular emphasis on poverty - Active participation of the Platform in the work
group preparing Belgian political note on sexual
and reproductive rights and health
224. Challenges
- Coordination with other Platforms/ Commissions
related to SRH in Belgium - Need to pursue the work, especially in the
context of Millennium Development Goals
23Contact
- Secretariat at
- Le monde selon les femmes
- http//www.platformpopdev.be