and
Health, Nutrition & Population Team, World Bank
cordially invite to a panel discussion featuring two recent
publications
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| | The Global Family Planning |
| | Revolution: |
| (Embedded image moved to | Three Decades of Policies and |
| file: pic21363.jpg) | Programs |
| | Edited by Warren Robinson and John |
| | Ross |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | The striking upsurge in population |
| file: pic00028.jpg) | growth rates in developing countries |
| | after the close of World War II gave |
| | birth to the first national programs |
| | designed to reduce fertility rates. |
| | The new technologies of the IUD and |
| | the pill armed these programs with |
| | methods that made birth control |
| | easier, both for couples and for |
| | large-scale administration. By the |
| | late 1960s and early 1970s national |
| | programs covered much of the |
| | developing world. Since then they |
| | have continued to spread: |
| | contraception is now used by over 60 |
| | percent of couples, and fertility |
| | rates have fallen by half. This new |
| | volume sets forth the remarkable |
| | record of this success. Its unique |
| | contribution lies in the 23 country |
| | case studies that document the |
| | diverse forms the programs took, how |
| | they were administered and funded, |
| | how they educated the public, how |
| | they were evaluated, and how they |
| | were made to fit local conditions. |
| | The analyses provide valuable |
| | guidance to emerging health-related |
| | policy objectives and responses to |
| | global challenges. |
| | |
| | Population Issues in the 21st |
| | Century: |
| | The Role of the World Bank |
| | |
| | The objective of this paper is to |
| | discuss some obstacles and |
| | opportunities presented by |
| | population processes in order to |
| | prioritize areas for investment and |
| | analytical work as background |
| | information for the 2007 HNP Sector |
| | Strategy. Fertility has declined in |
| | most of the low- and middle-income |
| | countries, with TFRs converging |
| | toward replacement level, except in |
| | 35 countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan |
| | Africa, where a broad-based decline |
| | in fertility has not occurred. As |
| | the priorities of donors and |
| | development agencies have shifted |
| | toward other issues, and global |
| | funds and initiatives have largely |
| | bypassed funding of family planning, |
| | less attention is being focused on |
| | the consequences of high fertility. |
| | Reproductive health is conspicuously |
| | absent from the MDGs, and assistance |
| | to countries to meet the demand for |
| | family planning and related services |
| | is insufficient. |
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
12:00 pm
World Bank H Building, Eugene R. Black Auditorium
600 19th Street, NW
A light lunch will be served
CO-CHAIRS
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Phumaphi worked at the World Health
Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and
Community Health Department. Before that, she served in the
Parliament and as Minister for Health of Botswana.
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region
Since joining the Bank in January 1974 as part of the Young
Professionals Program, Mr. Patel has held various technical and
managerial positions. In 2003, he was promoted to his current
position as Regional Vice President, South Asia. Prior to joining
the Bank, Mr. Patel worked in Kenya in private practice and for the
Housing Research and Development Unit at the University of Nairobi,
and as Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT).
PRESENTERS
Steven Sinding
Former Director-General, IPPF
Rama Lakshminarayanan
Senior Health Specialist, HDNHE
DISCUSSANT
Peter Donaldson
President, Population Council
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