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ICPD Information & Communication Technologies Seminar - Global

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A seminar held by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the Turkish Ministry of Health in Ankara, Turkey on 4 December 1998. The 4-day meeting assessed the opportunities and potential benefits as well as constraints and pitfalls in using new technologies to advocate for reproductive health and rights. Discussion on a wide range of development experiences - from Internet web sites to telephone hotlines - that may be applied in the field of population and reproductive health. Case studies, from the Philippines to Turkey, to Senegal, to Honduras, illustrating the enormous potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) were reviewed. Discussions of how ICTs can be used to inform journalists and policy makers about development issues, to share examples of successful programmes, and to influence people's behavior in relation to reproductive health.
Development Issues

Population, health, rights, communication technologies.
Key Points

Seminar was developed as a result of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action, which calls for making reproductive health care, including family planning, universally available by 2015 or sooner. Recommendations included calls for policy changes to make ICTs more accessible, for more attention to training needs, especially those of NGO's, for better tools to search the wealth of population-related data on the worldwide web, for transparency in project formulation, and for better monitoring and evaluation of projects and greater exchange of experiences. The importance of supporting women's empowerment and the need for local input and control of projects were repeatedly emphasised. A final report will be issued, and a summary of this report will be presented in February of 1999.
Partners



UNFPA, Turkish Ministry of Health.

Sources

Press Release issued by the UNFPA and posted on their web site.