Technical Publications

Adding it Up The Benefits of Investing In Sexual and Reproductive Health Care This new report jointly published by The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, makes the case for increased funding for sexual and reproductive health services-particularly in resource-poor countries-by illustrating the unusually broad societal and individual impact of investments in sexual and reproductive health.

Country Commodity Manager CCM: a Computer Program for the Management and Forecasting of Reproductive Health Commodity Needs This is the downloadable manual in five languages to accompany the Country Commodity Manager (CCM), a software program that helps UNFPA Country Offices assess their reproductive health commodity requirements, stock positions and identify shortfalls. CCM also provides a mechanism to readily transmit each country's data to UNFPA headquarters from their country offices for use in generating global level reports for the purposes of planning, advocacy and resource mobilization.

Culture Matters – Working with Communities and Faith-based Organizations Case Studies from Country Programmes This new report—on working within cultures to foster stronger progress towards achieving international development goals and advancing human rights—provides insight into integrating cultural analysis in development programmes, especially in the critical areas of gender equity and equality and reproductive health and rights.

Investing in People National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994-2004 This Global Survey includes responses from 169 countries on the steps they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action, including measures related to population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.

Investing in People -- A Summary National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994 - 2004 A summary of the Global Survey that includes responses from 169 countries on the measures they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action in the fields of population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.

Meeting the Challenges of Migration Progress since the ICPD This joint publication provides readers with an overview of key developments in addressing migration since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development and points to challenges ahead. Chapters deal with migration trends, policy development, economic migration, refugee protection, human trafficking, internal migration, data, and the links between migration and development and human rights.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals Population and Reproductive Health as Critical Determinants -- Population and Development Strategies #10 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), arising from the Millennium Summit in September 2000, are the overarching development objectives of the international community. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) goal of universal access to quality reproductive health services by 2015 is not one of the MDGs. Yet as this publication demonstrates, it is essential for meeting the MDGs. The attainment of reproductive health and reproductive rights are fundamental for development, for fighting poverty and for meeting the MDG targets. Conversely, reproductive ill-health undermines development by, inter alia, diminishing the quality of women's lives, weakening and, in extreme cases, killing poor women of prime ages, and placing heavy burdens on families and communities. This publication shows by means of analytical graphics, the fundamental importance of addressing population and reproductive health for achieving the MDGs.

Counting the People: Constraining Census Costs and Assessing Alternative Approaches Population and Development Strategies #7 The papers in this report are based on an edited selection of presentations made at two meetings on population censuses. The first was the UNFPA/PARIS21 International Expert Group Meeting on Mechanisms for Ensuring Continuity of 10-Year Population Censuses: Strategies for Reducing Census Costs held in Pretoria on 26-29 November 2001 and the second meeting was a UNFPA In-House Capacity Building Workshop on Population Censuses: New Directions and Cost Saving Strategies held in Princeton, New Jersey on 21-23 October 2002.

Country Profiles for Population and Reproductive Health Policy Development and Indicators 2003 In 1995, UNFPA published Resource Requirements for Population and Reproductive Health Programmes: Programme Country Profiles for Population Assistance. The current publication is an updated version of that volume, with a greater emphasis on policy and institutional commitments and a broader range of socio-economic, gender, demographic and health indicators. The expanded range of indicators reflects the priorities identified in the five-year review of the Programme of Action and the perspectives from the other international conferences of the 1990s that culminated in the Millennium Summit. Attention is also given to differences within countries. Indicators for ICPD and MDGs are identified by special symbols. Country Profiles for Population and Reproductive Health will be published every two years with updated policy descriptions and indicators. The information is also available on the UNFPA web site (http://www.unfpa.org/profile), where it will be updated annually. Internet technology allows users to display comparisons between countries as well. A CD-ROM is also available with search and comparison capabilities. (see ordering information)

Financial Resource Flows for Population Activities in 2001 Financial Resource Flows for Population Activities in 2001, monitors progress towards achievement of the financial targets agreed in Cairo at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, ICPD. This report provides information on donor assistance and domestic expenditures for population activities, including reproductive health services, family planning services, STD/HIV/AIDS activities, and basic research, data and population and development policy analysis. The Financial Resources Flows for Population Project (RF)is a collaboration between UNFPA, UNAIDS and NIDI to establish a refined annual data collection, monitoring, and information dissemination system on global financial flows for population activities.

Global Population and Water Access and Sustainability In the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Governments were committed to achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration. As a means to further support efforts to eradicate poverty, they agreed to halve by the year 2015 the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation, as well as the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water. The Population and Development Branch, TSD, prepared this report as a contribution to the dialogue that recently took place at the Third World Water Forum held in Kyoto, Japan, and covers the population, gender and health dimensions related to the ongoing debate on water resources.

Population and Poverty: Achieving Equity, Equality and Sustainability Poverty has taken centre stage in development ever since it was raised as a priority global issue in the International Conferences in the 1990s and culminating in the Millennium Summit in September 2000 when world leaders pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. The United Nations has been given an important role in ensuring integrated and coordinated assistance to developing countries in their efforts to reduce poverty and in their pursuit of the MDGs. In this respect, UNFPA can play an important part in helping to achieve poverty reduction given the many links between poverty on one hand and population dynamics and structure, reproductive health, and women?s empowerment on the other, as discussed widely in this report. This report is based on an edited selection of presentations made at the Consultation organized by UNFPA in Princeton, New Jersey during September 30 ? October 2, 2002 to discuss the linkages between population, reproductive health, gender and poverty. The report reflects current thinking on the on-going dialogue on the above themes.

The Impact of HIV/AIDS A Population and Development Perspective Globally, the are about 42 million people living with HIV/AIDS and no major region of the world escapes the pandemic?s invasive presence. However, by far the greatest proportions are concentrated in the developing world where more than 95 percent of cases are located. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) address the major issues of our time, including halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS. The new publication by UNFPA entitled The Impact of HIV/AIDS: A Population and Development Perspective focuses explicitly on the relationship between the pandemic, population and development. It shows that the spread of HIV/AIDS is setting back progress towards the MDGs and, in some settings, increasing poverty.

Trafficking in Women, Girls and Boys Key Issues for Population and Development Programmes Trafficking in persons, their transportation and sale for labour of any kind, whether within or outside national boundaries, is a modern form of slavery and a violation of the human rights of the victims. More than 700,000 persons are trafficked each year from one country to another, but the numbers are greatly magnified when in-country figures are taken into account. An overwhelming majority of victims are women, girls and boys. The primary objective is commercial sexual exploitation. Giving expression to its concern, UNFPA organized a consultative meeting in Bratislava from 2-4 October 2002 to seek ways of addressing the problem. The present report is the outcome of this meeting.

Population Ageing and Development Social, Health and Gender Issues A special report from the Expert Group Meeting on Population Ageing and Development. Population ageing has become one of the most significant demographic processes of modern times. An inevitable consequence of the demographic transition and the shift to lower fertility and reduced mortality, the ageing of the world?s population has many countries facing unprecedented numbers and proportions of older persons. As part of the preparatory activities leading up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, UNFPA convened, in collaboration with the United Nations Programme on Ageing, AARP and HelpAge International. This publication provides a summary of the papers presented and the discussions, along with the meeting?s conclusions and recommendations.

Population Ageing and Development Operational Challenges In Developing Countries UNFPA's focus in the area of population ageing is guided by the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the recommendations of ICPD+5, the goals of the Millennium Declaration and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing adopted at the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing. UNFPA supports the implementation of the Plan at the global, regional and national levels. This report, Population Ageing and Development: Operational Challenges in Developing Countries, part of the Population and Development Series (#5), documents the Fund's collaboration in a number of initiatives in the area of population, ageing and development, with information sourced from the Fund's country and inter-country programmes.

Population and Housing Censuses Strategies for Reducing Costs UNFPA, in partnership with the PARIS21 Census Task Team, and with additional support provided by EUROSTAT and the United States Bureau of the Census, organised an international conference to review budgetary and funding issues related to conducting censuses so as to try to ensure stability in the future funding of cost-effective censuses. The UNFPA/PARIS21 International Expert Group Meeting on Mechanisms for Ensuring Continuity of 10-Year Population Censuses: Strategies for Reducing Census Costs was held in Pretoria, on 26-29 November 2001 and hosted by the Government of South Africa. This report contains a summary of the papers presented and their discussions, along with the conclusions, recommendations and next steps adopted by all participants on the final day of the meeting.

Reproductive Health and Employment Implications for Young People Almost all United Nations global conferences in the last decade have recognized that youth unemployment is a growing problem that needs to be addressed, and that placing youth at the centre of the development agenda is a key to sustainable development. This publication provides a brief overview of how youth unemployment, especially among girls, is linked to problems of poverty, ill health, and illiteracy.

Situations and Voices The Older Poor and Excluded in South Africa and India Population ageing is increasingly becoming an issue for concern throughout the world, and particularly in less developed countries where the growth of the older population is ever more rapid. In order to sharpen international focus on some of the key operational challenges faced by older people today, in early 2001 UNFPA commissioned a pilot study in South Africa and India. The study methodology entailed a literature review, including an analysis of the socio-cultural factors affecting older people, and a participatory assessment of how older persons perceive their lives. This publication contains the main findings of the study.

Population, Environment and Poverty Linkages Operational Challenges This new report provides an overview of the complex interrelations between population, the environment and poverty and the operational challenges they engender. The report documents UNFPA support for a number of programme initiatives in this area, and concludes that in order to achieve the mutually reinforcing UNCED and ICPD goals, now mainstreamed in the Millennium Declaration, actions are required by both developed and developing countries.

Report of the UNFPA Workshop on Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAps) The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with the financial and technical assistance of DFID and ICDA, organized a Workshop on Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAps) at its New York headquarters from 12-13 October 2000. The primary objective of the workshop was to enable UNFPA and other participating institutions to learn more about critical issues related in the planning and implementation of sector-wide approaches (SWAps) focusing on the health sector. The knowledge acquired would assist them in fine tuning their responses to this increasingly popular approach, and in laying the groundwork for harmonizing such responses. This objective was to be achieved through exchange of experiences with representatives of programme country governments implementing SWAps in the health sector and official of multi-lateral and bi-lateral development agencies.

Report of the UNFPA 1998 Field Inquiry Progress on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action From June through August 1998, UNFPA conducted a global Field Inquiry of developing and developed countries as part of a five-year review of the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (PoA) adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in 1994. The Inquiry focused on the operational dimensions of population and reproductive health programmes and was designed to assess what progress countries had made since the ICPD and what obstacles they are facing. One hundred and fourteen responses were received from developing countries and those with economies in transition, and 18 developed countries reported their experiences.

Report of the International Workshop on Population-Poverty-Environment Linkages: Key Results and Policy Actions The workshop, held in Gland, Switzerland, 23-25 September 1998, brought together policy makers, population-environment experts, NGO representatives, community development fieldworkers, and senior representatives from UNFPA, the United Nations Environment Programme, IUCN?The World Conservation Union, and the Government of Norway. The workshop sought to evaluate the overall impact on population-poverty-environment-related issues of the follow-up to several global conferences of the 1990s, including the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the International Conference on Population and Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women, and the World Summit for Social Development. This report provides an overview of workshop proceedings. It presents what is known about population-poverty-environment linkages and what is being done, describes tools and techniques to understand linkages and make better decisions, and presents recommendations for further action.

State of World Population

State of World Population 2004 The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and The Global Effort to End Poverty This year's report, The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty, examines the progress countries have made and the obstacles they have encountered at the halfway point in implementing the ICPD plan.

State of World Population 2002 People, poverty and Possibilities Attacking poverty directly, as a matter of human rights, to accelerate development and to reduce inequality within and among nations, has become an urgent global priority. World leaders have agreed on a variety of new initiatives, including the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This year's State of the World Population report is a contribution to the discussion and a guide to action. This publication characterizes poverty by reviewing its many dimensions and looks at several of the key issues including, poverty and gender, poverty and health and poverty and education. It outlines a framework and provides recommendations to meet the poverty eradication goal of reducing the number of poor in half, by 2015. This publication comes complete with expert analysis, prescriptions for the future and a wealth of statistics, graphs and indicators. HTML Version | English | Español | Français |

The State of World Population 2001 Footprints and Milestones: Population and Environmental Change. Human activity is altering the planet on an unprecedented scale, the report points out. More people are using more resources with more intensity and leaving a bigger "footprint" on the earth than ever before. The report examines the close links between environmental conditions, population trends, and prospects for alleviating poverty in developing countries. It finds that expanding women's opportunities and ensuring their reproductive health and rights are critically important, both to improve the well-being of growing human populations and to protect the natural world. HTML Version | English | Español | Français |

State of World Population 1999 6 Billion: A Time for Choices Women are having fewer children than ever before, and population growth has slowed from 2.0 to 1.3 per cent in 30 years. But large families in the recent past mean that there are many more women of childbearing age. Global population is still rising by about 78 million people a year. Half the world is under 25 and there are over a billion young people between 15 and 24, the parents of the next generation. HTML Version | English |

State of World Population 1998 The New Generations More young people than ever are entering their childbearing and working years. At the same time, the number and proportion of people over age 65 are increasing at an unprecedented rate. Our future will be shaped by how well families and societies meet the needs of these growing "new generations": education and health -- including reproductive health -- for the young, and social, medical and financial support for the elderly. HTML Version | English | Français |

State of World Population 1996 Changing Places: Population, Development and the Urban Future Within ten years, more than half the people in the world will be living in cities. Most of the urban population increase will be in developing countries. Investment in social development--in health, education and a better life for women--will be the key to whether urbanization will improve the lives of people or increase human misery. HTML Version | English |

General Information

Asia and the Pacific A Region in Transition This most recent UNFPA publication gives an overview of the Asia and Pacific Region; provides a detailed analysis of some of the crucial issues facing the region - adolescent reproductive health, population ageing, rising spread of HIV/AIDS, gender discrimination, gender-based violence, situations of crisis; and highlights UNFPA's core interventions and major initiatives in each of these areas.

Population, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals How the ICPD Programme of Action Promotes Poverty Alleviation and Human Rights This publication highlights the importance of the ICPD Programme of Action, the "Cairo+5" discussions and subsequent experience and agreements as we mobilize to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Periodicals

DISPATCHES: Issue Number 61 News from the United Nations Population Fund, May-June 2004 IN THIS ISSUE: • Latin America Reaffirms Cairo Population Consensus on its Tenth Anniversary • Agencies Team up to Save Women's Lives in Latin America and the Caribbean • Cambodia's Young Campers Discuss Reproductive Health Issues • Uganda Gears Up to Fight Fistula • Emergency UNFPA Supplies Airlifted to Haiti • Belize launches new initiative to protect youth against HIV/AIDS • World's Youngest Nation to Use Latest Technology for its National Census • New System Helps Countries Manage their Reproductive Health Commodities

DISPATCHES: Issue Number 62 News from the United Nations Population Fund, July-August 2004 IN THIS ISSUE: • Young People to Advise UNFPA on Their Rights and Needs • Youth Activists Gear Up for the Bangkok AIDS Conference • Reproductive Health and Gender Equality Key to Breaking Cycle of Poverty, According to African Ministers • Cambodia Conducts Population Survey with UNFPA Support • UNFPA Spearheads Campaign to End Fistula in Sudan • Swedish Funds Support HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Tea Plantations of Bangladesh • New UNFPA Support to Better Health Care in Africa

DISPATCHES: Issue Number 63 News from the United Nations Population Fund, September-October 2004 IN THIS ISSUE: • Report Examines Triumphs and Setbacks Since Cairo Population Consensus • British Support for UNFPA to Increase Over the Next Four Years • Latin America Reaffirms its Support for Cairo Consensus • Timor-Leste Announces Preliminary Census Results • Kazakhstan Takes Over Family Planning • Developing Contries Intensify Efforts to End Fistula • Youth Issues Get National Attention in Maldives

Advocacy Booklet Series

Population and the 21st Century: UNFPA and Agenda 21 The inextricable link between population and the environment was emphasized at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992. This booklet, outlines UNFPA's mandate, including population-related citations from Agenda 21, the plan for action signed at the Earth Summit.

Other Reports and Documents

Trafficking in Women, Girls and Boys. Key Issues for Population and Development Programmes. Report of the Consultative Meeting on Trafficking in Women and Children, Bratislava, Slovak Republic 2-4 October 2002 Trafficking in persons, their transportation and sale for labour of any kind, whether within or outside national boundaries, is a modern form of slavery and a violation of the human rights of the victims. Giving expression to its concern, UNFPA organized a consultative meeting in Bratislava from 2-4 October 2002 to seek ways of addressing the problem. This report is the outcome of this meeting.

The Africa Social Research Programme Call for Proposals An understanding of socio-cultural factors is critical in the context of development and humanitarian programmes.

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