The Center for Global Development Working Group on UNFPA’s Leadership Transition urges the UNFPA to sharpen its focus in pursuing the Programme of Action developed at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development.
The time is right to reinvigorate UNFPA. Seventeen years after the groundbreaking ICPD meeting, UNFPA needs to make itself the lead agency for population, sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights in the UN system, as well as be more visible externally.
This essay explores how demographic factors affect infrastructure and the choices policymakers should make concerning infrastructure development.
For the first time, the elderly, urban populations, and women of reduced fertility outnumber their counterparts. Joel E. Cohen discusses how changing demographic trends will require a heavier focus on primary and secondary education, reproductive health and demographically sensitive urban planning.