Population Division - 2021

Expert group meeting on population and sustainable development, in particular, sustained and inclusive economic growth

DCULPEPP — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:10:00 +0000

Wednesday, 21 July 2021 - 9:15am to Thursday, 22 July 2021 - 5:15pm

Overview

The special theme of the fifty-fifth session of the Commission on Population and Development will be Population and sustainable development, in particular sustained and inclusive economic growth. The theme is related to chapter III of the Programme of Action adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development, which took place in Cairo in September 1994. That chapter emphasized the need to integrate population in development strategies and to address the interlinkages between population, sustained economic growth and poverty on the one hand, and between population and the environment on the other. These issues remain relevant today and have, in fact, assumed new importance and urgency.

Since the Cairo conference, there has been an accumulation of evidence on environmental problems attributable to unsustainable patterns of production and consumption. Such problems are compounded and amplified by continuing population growth. Population ageing, a gradual but relentless global demographic trend, brings the potential of economic benefits and personal opportunities associated with longer and healthier lives, as well as increased fiscal and macroeconomic pressures. As more countries are entering advanced stages of population ageing, those with persistently low levels of fertility face the reality or the prospect of population decline and need to formulate appropriate policy responses.

This expert group meeting will review the latest evidence and analysis of these topics, drawing from the experiences of countries in all regions of the world. The presentations and discussion during the expert meeting are expected to generate inputs for the preparation of the Secretary-General's report on the theme of the fifty-fifth session of the Commission.

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Expert group meeting on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility

NKOSHY — Mon, 03 May 2021 14:20:00 +0000

Monday, 10 May 2021 - 9:30pm to Tuesday, 11 May 2021 - 6:30pm

Overview

The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs is organizing an expert meeting on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10 and 11 May 2021.

The purpose of the meeting is: (a) to review experiences from past public health and economic crises and identify mechanisms through which the COVID-19 pandemic may affect fertility in various parts of the world; (b) to assess recent data on marriage and union formation, fertility preferences, use of family planning, and reported numbers of births from selected countries with a view to assess the possible impact of the pandemic on fertility; and (c) to provide recommendations for the Division to develop assumptions on the impact of the pandemic on fertility levels and trends at the global, regional and subregional levels in the short to medium term in support of the official United Nations population estimates and projections that are currently being revised and updated by the Division.

To facilitate the discussion, the Population Division has designed a short questionnaire to collect expert views on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility. The results will be discussed in the last session of the meeting and will be used to inform the forthcoming revision of the World Population Prospects.

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Commission on Population and Development, fifty-fourth session (2021)

BOUEDRAO — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:40:00 +0000

Monday, 19 April 2021 - 10:00am to Friday, 23 April 2021 - 6:00pm

Population, food security, nutrition and sustainable development

Members of the Commission

Bureau members

H.E. Ambassador Yemdaogo Eric Tiare (Burkina Faso) - African Group (Chair)
Ms. Damla Fidan (Turkey) - Western European and Others Group (Vice-Chair)
Mr. Nizar Kaddouh (Lebanon) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)
Ms. Cristina Popescu (Romania) - Eastern European Group (Vice-Chair)
Ms. Mayra Lisseth Sorto (El Salvador) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (Vice-Chair)

Programme

Report of the Commission on its fifty-fourth session

Resolutions and decisions

Provisional agenda for the fifty-fifth session of the Commission (E/CN.9/2021/L.2)
Decision on the special theme for the fifty-sixth session of the Commission (E/CN.9/2021/L.4)
Resolution on population, food security, nutrition and sustainable development (E/CN.9/2021/L.5)

Country statements after adoption of the resolution

France on behalf of: EU	Egypt	Syrian Arab Republic
Brazil	Russian Federation	Hungary
Guatemala	Iraq	United States
Qatar	Mexico	Nicaragua

Opening statements

H.E. Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy-Secretary-General of the United Nations
H.E. Mr. Alpha Barry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, African Integration and Burkinabè Abroad, Burkina Faso
Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund
Mr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization
Mr. Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development
Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) (delivered by Mr. Elliott Harris, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Chief Economist, DESA)
Ms. Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy for the Food Systems Summit

Keynote address

Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck of Bhutan [Bio] [Statement]

Agenda item 1: Election of officers*

^{*In accordance with Economic and Social Council decision 2005/213, the Commission, immediately following the closure of its fifty-third session, will hold the first meeting of its fifty-fourth session for the sole purpose of electing the new Chair and other officers of the Commission, in accordance with rule 15 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Council.}

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