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Programme Component: Population and Development
Monitoring, analyzing and responding to population trends
is crucial for sustainable development and elimination of poverty in Lao PDR.
National and local governments need to base their development plans and visions
on the most reliable projections of how the population will change in size and
characteristics.
In the Population and Development programme component, UNFPA's
main concerns are government policies related to population and gender, and
the collection and analysis of data on population/gender and development issues.
UNFPA supports policy implementation and advocacy activities aimed at a range
of target groups; training and research; improvement of national and local data
and information bases on population and development issues; and capacity-building
of local and national institutions.
UNFPA, the Government and other partners promote the integration
of population and gender concerns in policies and national, sectoral and provincial
plans and programmes, in line with the National Population and Development Policy.
UNFPA also aims to contribute to political and community support for improving
the status of women through advocacy activities, which should ultimately help
to reduce inequities between men and women, boys and girls.
Activities under the Population and Development programme
component take place within three projects:
Within this component project, UNFPA supports awareness-raising
about, and dissemination of, the National
Population and Development Policy and the Plan of Action that
guides its implementation; and the incorporation of population concerns
in development planning across government sectors. As part of this,
UNFPA organizes seminars and trainings on development planning for
central-level and provincial officials. UNFPA also supports the
national coordination mechanism for population and development through
the National Coordinating Committee for Population and Development
(NCCPD), chaired by the Vice President of the Committee for Planning
and Cooperation (CPC).
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As part of national capacity-building on population and development, UNFPA has
supported the development of a Population
Studies Centre at the National University of Laos, which offers bachelor-level
degree programmes on population and development. Under the Third Country Programme,
UNFPA supports the Centre in development of a postgraduate programme and research.
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Planning and monitoring development require a solid base of relevant and reliable
data. UNFPA works in partnership with the National Statistical Centre to improve
the national database for population and development planning, and to incorporate
gender issues into its analysis. One of the major activities during the third
Country Programme will be a second national Reproductive Health Survey, which
will be implemented alongside the 2005 census.
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The Population and Development component projects are designed
to realize the following inter-related outputs:
Output 1: Increased awareness among policy-makers, decision-makers,
planners and administrators at national and sub-national levels, as well as
community leaders, of the need to promote reproductive health, reproductive
rights, gender equality and other critical population and development issues;
Output 2: Strengthened capacity for successful advocacy
on implementation of the National Population and Development Policy (NPDP) and
its Action Plan and key population and gender issues, among partner organizations
and stakeholders: the Committee for Planning and Cooperation, the Lao Women's
Union, the Lao Youth Union, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health,
parliamentarians, the Ministry of Information and Culture, and the media;
Output 3: Strengthened capacity for data collection, analysis,
training, research and dissemination of information on major gender concerns
and population and development issues, among the Committee for Planning and
Cooperation, the National University of Laos and other agencies;
Output 4: Strengthened capacities of:
- the NCCPD for coordination of the national population programme; advocacy;
effective programme implementation and national execution; linkages with related
programmes supported by other donors; and monitoring the nationwide implementation
of the NPDP and its Action Plan; and
- the Committee for Planning and Cooperation, at central and provincial levels,
to integrate population issues in development planning, with specific attention
to the NPDP, its Action Plan, and gender concerns;
Output 5: Increased availability, dissemination
and utilization of demographic, socio-economic and reproductive
health data, disaggregated by sex, at national and provincial levels.
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