The First National Population Conference starts in Kathmandu on Thursday June 5,2014 with the theme Communicating Population for Development Planning. The Ministry of Health and Population; Central Department of Population Studies TU; Population Association of Nepal; Cent re for Research on Environment, Health and Population Activities; Family Planning Association of Nepal and UNFPA the United Nations Population Fund, are jointly organizing conference. The august gathering aims to discuss key issues of population and sustainable development and to build a common understanding among stakeholders of national development priorities and targets for the post ICPD1and MDG2Development Frameworks. A total of 108 papers3 have been selected for the conference and will be presented in 72 parallel and 36 poster sessions on around 15 themes. Nepal has witnessed many important demographic changes over the last 20 years due to declining fertility and mortality rates,increasing life expectancy, increasing age at marriage and rising internal and international migration Nepal is among the signatories of the 1994 Programmer of Action of the ICPD, which made a clear practical connection between human rights, population dynamics and economic development. The operational review, carried out 20 years after the ICPD during the 47th Session of the Commission on Population and Development in the UN Headquarters in April this year,reinforced the need to consider emerging population priorities and to integrate population dynamics into the sustainable development goals that will follow the MDGs post 2015. makers, academicians, researchers, implementers, development practitioners and other stakeholders to form a collaborative network, share research findings and good practices and to explore, discuss and advocate emerging issues around population and development.
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GoN, CDOPS, PAN, CREHPA, FPAN, UNFPA, PSI-NEPAL, MSIN
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Press Release
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Keywords:
MIGRATION, FAMILY HEALTH,REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, POPULATION AND DVELOPMENT, SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, NUTRITION, HUMAN RIGHTS, FAMILY PLANNING, HIV-AIDS, SEXUAL HEALTH, POLICY SUPPORT, ECONOMIC PLANNING, SOCIALPLANNING, ACADEMIC FREEDOM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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Thematic Group: UNICEF
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Children Fund
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- Population Dynamics
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