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10th International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development

November 29th, 2012

On October 24th/25th 2012, DSW together with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GIZ, KfW, IPPF and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals hosted the 10th International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development entitled ‘Population Dynamics in the 21st Century – Transforming challenges and opportunities’.

The Dialogue directed political attention to the important link between population dynamics, governance, sustainability, and food security and why population dynamics needs to be taken into consideration as a cross-cutting issue when discussing the post-2015 development framework. The conference was attended by more than 100 high-level participants from different sectors and countries all over the world, including 40 young people.

You can find more information here:
http://www.dialogue-population-development.info/pdf/Programmes/2012_Programme_en.pdf

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German funding for RH/ FP

May 11th, 2012

One of the core functions of the Countdown 2015 Europe partners is to collect financial data on their government’s official development assistance (ODA) to reproductive health and family planning. The database is not available to the public – please enter your username and password below to access it.

However, an overview of how Germany is funding Reproductive Health and Family Planning in developing countries is now available online!

For more overviews of European donor funding for RH/ FP, please click here.

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BMZ and Gates Foun­da­tion launch co­op­e­ra­tion in the family plan­ning sector

May 11th, 2012

On April 5th 2012, the Federal Ministry for Eco­nom­ic Co­op­e­ra­tion and De­vel­op­ment (BMZ) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foun­da­tion  jointly made a com­mit­ment for 20 million euros, with each side pro­vid­ing half of that amount, to sup­port family plan­ning pro­jects in West Africa. This agreement was announced on the occasion of the TEDxChange Event in Berlin (http://www.ted.com/pages/tedxchange_overview) where Melinda Gates made a presentation on the need to invest more in family planning.

Development Minister Niebel said: “Family planning is a de­ci­sive lever for bringing about a significant re­duc­tion of maternal and child mortality in developing countries. It thus also plays an im­por­tant role for the achievement of further Mil­len­nium De­vel­op­ment Goals, especially gender equality and the em­power­ment of women. The BMZ has adopted an Ini­tia­tive on Rights-based Family Planning and Maternal Health, thus setting clear prio­ri­ties, and it has more than doubled its bilateral commit­ments in 2011 over 2008 levels, bringing the total to nearly 100 million euros.”

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International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development in Berlin

October 20th, 2011

On 19-20 October, in Berlin, DSW together with BMZ, GIZ, KfW, IPPF and Bayer Health Care Pharmaceuticals organized the 9th International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development entitled ‘Education Matters: Empowering Young People to Make Healthier Choices’.

The Dialogue directed political attention to the important link between SRH and education and discussed good practices, national standards and curricula, new developments and joint activities in the fields of general formal and informal sexuality education.

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