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  • Title: Follow-up for the ICPD Program of Action. Sadik outlines achievements of Cairo and urges follow-up of program's recommendations.
    Author: Sadik N.
    Journal: JOICFP News; 1995 Jan; (247):1. PubMed ID: 12288954.
    Abstract:
    At a meeting in Tokyo on October 27, 1994, Dr. Nafis Sadik, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, reviewed the achievements of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt, in September 1994. The meeting was attended by some 200 population experts, parliamentarians, government officials, representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the media. The ICPD adopted a new Program of Action for the next 20 years. The international community has acknowledged that investing in people, in their health and education, is the key to sustainable development. An important focus of ICPD was the need to include the empowerment of women in the formulation of national and international population and development policies to improve the quality of life for everyone. The program recognizes the need to integrate family planning (FP) activities into the wider context of reproductive health. Reproductive health care programs should be designed to serve the needs of women and men, including adolescents, and must involve women in the leadership, planning, decision-making, management, implementation, organization, and evaluation of services. The program recognizes the reproductive rights and reproductive health needs of adolescents in terms of information and services that help them make responsible decisions. NGOs in developed and developing countries alike have a crucial role to play in the provision of reproductive health-care information and services. NGOs in donor countries like Japan can press their governments to fulfill their commitments made at ICPD. Many Japanese NGOs, particularly JOICFP and Japan's Network for Women's Health, Cairo '94, have played an important role in mobilizing support for the goals of the ICPD. The significance of the ICPD will now depend on the willingness of governments, local communities, the NGO sector, the international community, and all other concerned organizations and individuals to turn the recommendations into action.
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