Population Control Flashcards
What is Programme of Action
(POA) of the International
Conference on Population and Development, 1994?
It is unequivocally against coercion in family
planning.
What is Partners in Population and Development?
Aim: It is an intergovernmental initiative created specifically for the purpose of expanding and improving South-South Cooperation in the fields of reproductive health, population, and development.
Launch: PPD was launched at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), when ten developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America formed an intergovernmental alliance to help implement the Cairo Program of Action (POA).
The POA, endorsed by 179 nations, stresses the need to establish mechanisms to promote development through the sharing of experiences in reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP) within and among countries.
Members: An alliance of 27 developing countries. India is a member country.
Secretariat: Dhaka, Bangladesh
What is the feature of Census
statistics of 2001-2011?
“2001-2011 was the first decade in the last 100 years which had not only added lesser population as compared to the previous one, but also registered the sharpest decline in the decadal growth rate from 21.54% in 1991-2001 to 17.64% in 2001-2011”.
