The Higher Population Council held today, Tuesday, the first workshop to prepare a national plan for the implementation of Jordan's commitments to the 2019 Nairobi Summit - International Conference on Population and Development + 25/Accelerating the Promise - for the years 2021-2030, and to develop its conceptual framework, with the participation of relevant national actors.
The workshop aimed at identifying the strategic planning model, conceptual framework and the themes and components of the national plan for the implementation of Jordan's commitments towards the Nairobi 2019 Summit, and to review the best practices and global models in the field of strategic planning related to reproductive health and population issues, in addition to identifying future steps.
The Director of the Programme Unit of the Higher Population Council, Dr. Sawsan Al-Daja, explained that the Council headed the official Jordanian delegation to the Nairobi Summit in 2019, which marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The summit aimed at renewing international and national commitment to the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) 1994, and accelerating national efforts to achieve the goals not achieved by states, through further mobilization of the political will and financial commitments that they urgently need to fully implement the ICPD Program of Action and meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. She explained that the preparation of the plan and the development of its conceptual framework are aimed at translating Jordan's commitment towards the decisions of this Summit and international trends.
Dajah noted that the plan was a basic reference document that starts from the themes and topics of the Nairobi Summit, which is to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health as part of universal health coverage, provide the necessary funding to implement the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, preserve the gains achieved, take advantage of demographic diversity to promote economic growth and sustainable development (harness the demographic dividend) to advance development, end gender-based violence and harmful practices, and support the right to sexual and reproductive health care embedded in humanitarian and fragile contexts.
She also stressed the importance of developing an accountability framework based on the identification of responsibilities and indicators to measure performance at the desired impact and outcome levels, as well as focusing on a gender-sensitive and age-sensitive plan and adopting a participatory methodology linking results to available budgets to ensure that outputs were achieved.
