6th APCRSHR Satellite Session on Addressing Challenges in Family Planning (22 October 2011)

Satellite Session on Addressing Challenges in Family Planning
Date:  22 October 2011
Time:  10.30 – 12.15
Venue:  (to be announced)
 

Given the lack of recognition to the importance of family planning to economic and social development, delegates at the UNFPA-ICOMP Regional Consultation on Family Planning in Asia and the Pacific: Addressing the Challenges – held from 8-10 December 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand unanimously agreed to the “Asia and the Pacific Call for  Elimination of Unmet Need of Family Planning” in which they urged governments to enhance leadership, governance and political commitment for repositioning family planning in the national development agenda. They expressed their determination to raise and sustain adequate financial resources for ensuring universal access to reproductive health commodities. They also pledged to strengthen partnerships and collaboration with stakeholders, including religious groups, to make family planning information and services accessible to all.
 

In view of the above background, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Council on Management of Population Programmes (ICOMP) is jointly organizing a Satellite Session on Addressing Challenges in Family Planning at the 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR), Yogyakarta.
 

Objectives:
The main purpose of the satellite session is to follow up on the regional consultation on “Family Planning in Asia and the Pacific- Addressing the Challenges” jointly organized by ICOMP and UNFPA APRO in Bangkok in December 2010.  At the end of the session, the participants will be able to:
·        Assess progress made since the December 2010 Regional Consultation on Family Planning
·        Reaffirm consensus and commitment towards the “Asia & the Pacific Call for Action for Achieving Universal Access to Family Planning” agreed at the Regional Consultation on FP in Asia & the Pacific – Addressing the Challenges” held in December 2010
·        Pledge respective country governments and key policy makers to priorities strategic actions indentified in the Call for Actions for on-ground implementation to ensure universal access to FP

Chair
Ms. Nobuko Horibe, Director, UNFPA Asia & the Pacific Regional Office, Bangkok
 

Speakers
·       Dr. Wasim Zaman, Executive Director, ICOMP, Malaysia
·       Dr. Sugiri Syarief, MPA, Chairperson, BKKBN, Indonesia
·       Dr Zeba Sathar, Country Director, Population Council, Pakistan
·       Mr. Thomas Oasis, Executive Director, Commission on Population, Philippines
.       Mr. Adrian Hayes, Sociologist and Demographer, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia