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Expert group meeting on fertility, changing population trends and development: Challenges and opportunities for the future

New York

Date: 
21 October 2013 to 22 October 2013

Overview

This expert group meeting addresses key questions about fertility patterns and trends, implications for age structure changes and other population trends and effective policy responses. The meeting results will inform preparations for the forty-seventh session of the Commission on Population and Development in 2014, the theme of which is the assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development.

Documents

Organization of work

Monday, 21 October 2013

9:00 – 10:15

Joint with Expert Group Meeting on Priorities for Improving Survival: ICPD Beyond 2014

 

1. Opening of the meeting

  • John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division

 

 

2.

  • Cheryl Sawyer, Mortality Section, Population Division

  • Vladimira Kantorova, Fertility and Family Planning Section, Population Division

 

10:25 – 11:40

3. Fertility trends in high- and intermediate-fertility countries

  • Moderator: Amson Sibanda, Division for Social Policy and Development/DESA

 

11:50 – 13:30 

4. Different pathways to low fertility and effective policy approaches to address low fertility 

 

  • Moderator: Ralph Hakkert, UNFPA

 

14:45 – 16:00 

 5. Young people and the transition to adulthood

What are current challenges to young people’s transitions to adulthood (family formation, human capital and sexual and reproductive health) and policy prospects to address them?

  • Moderator: Sajeda Amin, Population Council

 

 

6. Links between fertility, reproductive rights, women’s empowerment and gender equality

  • Moderator: Patience Stephens, UN-Women

 

17:30 – 18:00 

7. Closing of day 1 and guidance for day 2

  • Moderator: Francesca Perucci, Population Division

 

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

9:00 – 11:00

Joint with Expert Group Meeting on Priorities for Improving Survival: ICPD Beyond 2014

  1.
 
  • Experts: Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland.

    Two experts will present their views of the key points arising from the first day of each expert group meeting. Participants will engage in an interactive discussion on the key findings from the meeting, including the prioritization of issues for the global development agenda moving forward and of effective policy responses for shaping future population trends. The discussion will also identify promising future research directions.

  • Moderator: John Wilmoth, Population Division

 

11:15 – 13:00 

2. Interactive discussion: perspectives on how to improve accessibility and utilization of data and evidence by policymakers

 
  • Is getting health and population data and evidence to be used by policymakers more of a supply or demand issue?

  • What are the gaps between policymakers' needs and data availability?

  • What innovative strategies are there to get data and evidence to be used by policymakers?

  • Experts: Kirsty Newman (DFID, by videolink) and Hans Rosling, Gapminder Foundation

  • Moderator: Francesca Perucci, Population Division 

 

13:00 – 13:30

Conclusions and future directions

  • John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division 

 

 

Expert papers

  • Suzana Cavenaghi, National School of Statistical Science (ENCE),  Brazilian  National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Brazil.