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Expert group meeting on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility

NKOSHY — Mon, 03 May 2021 14:20:00 +0000

Monday, 10 May 2021 - 9:30pm to Tuesday, 11 May 2021 - 6:30pm

Overview

The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs is organizing an expert meeting on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10 and 11 May 2021.

The purpose of the meeting is: (a) to review experiences from past public health and economic crises and identify mechanisms through which the COVID-19 pandemic may affect fertility in various parts of the world; (b) to assess recent data on marriage and union formation, fertility preferences, use of family planning, and reported numbers of births from selected countries with a view to assess the possible impact of the pandemic on fertility; and (c) to provide recommendations for the Division to develop assumptions on the impact of the pandemic on fertility levels and trends at the global, regional and subregional levels in the short to medium term in support of the official United Nations population estimates and projections that are currently being revised and updated by the Division.

To facilitate the discussion, the Population Division has designed a short questionnaire to collect expert views on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility. The results will be discussed in the last session of the meeting and will be used to inform the forthcoming revision of the World Population Prospects.

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Expert group meeting on the evaluation of adolescent fertility data and estimates

BOUEDRAO — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:43:00 +0000

Monday, 26 October 2020 - 10:00am to Tuesday, 27 October 2020 - 6:00pm

Overview

The purpose of the meeting is to assess the coverage and accuracy and consistency of the data and estimates related to early adolescent fertility and to review the scope of associated demographic factors to assess the accuracy of early adolescent fertility data and estimates. The invited experts from United Nations system entities, research institutions and data producers will also review and discuss approaches for early adolescent fertility data validation, estimation and selection for SDG reporting and analysis. This online meeting of two half-day sessions on 26-27 October 2020 is organized as panel discussions around selected themes addressing data sources, methods to estimate early adolescent fertility data and approaches for data validation and selection for SDG reporting and analysis.

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Organization of work

Monday, 26 October 2020
9:00 - 09:30	Session I: Opening of the meeting & welcome John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division, DESA
09:30 - 11:00	Session II: Setting the stage: Reporting on ABR in the context of the SDGs   Moderator – Nicole Mun Sim Lai, Population Division   Karoline Schmid, Population Division, DESA – Overview of levels and trends of early childbearing Patrick Gerland, Population Division, DESA – World Population Prospects and 1950-2020 estimates for age-specific fertility patterns: past experience and future plans Stephen Kisambira, Population Division, DESA – Reporting on adolescent birth rate data for SDG indicator 3.7.2: data, methods, trends and estimation issues Q&A
11:15 - 1:15	Session III: Data and estimates from various data sources on adolescent fertility (ages girls/women 10-14 and 15-19) Moderator – Stephen Kisambira, Population Division, DESA Bruno Schoumaker, Universite Catholique de Louvain – Estimating Trends in under-15 fertility in developing countries with demographic surveys (WFS, DHS, MICS, RHS, PAPFAM) Adriana Skenderi, Statistics Division, DESA - United Nations Demographic Yearbook data on adolescent fertility Clementine Rossier, University of Geneva – Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) - Adolescent fertility is lower than expected in rural areas: results from 10 African HDSS Sarah Neal, University of Southampton – How reliable are reports of early adolescent pregnancy in Demographic and Health Surveys?
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
09:00 - 9:15	Recap of day 1 and outlook for day 2 Karoline Schmid, Population DivisionPopulation Division, DESA
9:15 - 10:45	Session IV: Adolescent Fertility: Regional and national perspectives Moderator – Yumiko Kamiya, Population Division, DESA Jorge Rodriguez, CELADE/ECLAC - Adolescent fertility in Latin America and the Caribbean: sources, indicators, trends and patterns Neneh Conteh Khali, NSO Sierra Leone – A glimpse of early adolescent fertility in Sierra Leone, Presentation notes Francis Fonanyeneh Wreh, NSO Liberia – The situation of adolescent fertility (15-19 years) in Liberia Mohammad Bellal Hossain, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh – Early adolescent fertility in Bangladesh: Trends and differentials Q&A
11:00 - 12:30	Session V: Open discussion and recommendations for validation, selection and reporting of adolescent fertility Moderator – Francois Pelletier, Population Division, DESA
12:30 - 12:45	Session VI: Closing

Expert group meeting on policy responses to low fertility

MSTOCKTO — Thu, 02 May 2019 18:22:00 +0000

Monday, 02 November 2015 - 10:00am to Tuesday, 03 November 2015 - 5:00pm

Overview

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, jointly with the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, is organizing an expert group meeting on “Policy responses to low fertility” that will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York during 2-3 November 2015. The expert group meeting will build on a series of 18 papers that have been prepared by academic experts from countries of Asia, Europe and North America, with funding support from the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) through the East-West Center.

The purpose of the expert group meeting is to broaden the discussion and the impact of these studies by involving other stakeholders, including academics, policymakers, and representatives of selected UN agencies and international organizations. The meeting aims to distil lessons learned and policy guidance for countries experiencing low fertility and the consequent ageing of their populations, and for those that are likely to face these challenges in the not too distant future.

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Organization of work

Monday, 02 November 2015
09:00 – 09:30	Session I: Opening of the meeting John Wilmoth, Population Division, UNDESA. Welcome Minja Kim Choe, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI. Overview of the project on Policy Responses to Low Fertility Vinod Mishra, Population Division, UNDESA. Scope and objectives of the meeting
09:30 – 11:00	Session II: Emergence of low fertility and its consequences Chair: Sangho Kim, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) Lina Bassarsky, Population Division, UNDESA. Overview of trends in fertility and population ageing Kirill Andreev, Population Division, UNDESA. Demographic implications of recent shift in China’s fertility policy S. Amer Ahmed, World Bank. Developmental consequences of demographic trends Tomas Sobotka, Vienna Institute of Demography and Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Austria. Macro factors behind low fertility Olivier Thevenon, French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). Policy approaches in countries experiencing low fertility
11:15 – 12:45	Session III: Responses to low fertility and population ageing Moderator: Renata Kaczmarska, Division for Social Policy and Development, UNDESA Expert: Wendy Sigle, Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom Expert: Maria Letizia Tanturri, University of Padova, Italy Expert: Kyunghee Chung, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) Heonjoo Kim, Population and Child Policy Bureau, Republic of Korea, Policymaker perspective. Ann Pawliczko, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Regional/global perspective
14:45 – 16:15	Session IV: Context and policy options in countries with very low fertility Moderator: Nicolaas van Nimwegen, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute Expert: Gavin W. Jones, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University Expert: Pau Baizan-Munoz, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Expert: Samsik Lee, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) Kittipong Sae-Jeng, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. Policymaker perspective Vitalija Gaucaite Wittich, United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe. Regional/global perspective.
16:30 – 18:00	Session V: Context and policy lessons from countries with near-replacement fertility Moderator: Noriko O. Tsuya, Keio University, Japan
	Expert: Melinda C. Mills, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Expert: S. Philip Morgan, University of North Carolina, USA Expert: Sarah Brauner-Otto, McGill University, Canada Petter Odmark, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden. Policymaker perspective Terry Hull, Australian National University, Regional/global perspective
Tuesday, 03 November 2015
09:00 – 10:30	Session VI: Policy options for countries approaching low fertility Moderator: Feng Wang, University of California, Irvine and Fudan University, China
	Expert: Zsolt Speder, Hungarian Demographic Research Institute Expert: Anne Gauthier, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute Expert: Ignacio Pardo, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay Policymaker perspective: Jacques van Zuydam, Department for Social Development, South Africa Fabiana Del Popolo, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional/global perspective
10:30 – 11:45	Session VII: Conclusions and recommendations Chair: Rachel Snow, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
	Renata Kaczmarska, Nicolaas van Nimwegen, Noriko Tsuya and Feng Wang. Lessons learned and key policy priorities: reports from session moderators (sessions III-VI: 5-7 minutes each) Ronald R. Rindfuss, East-West Center and University of North Carolina; Minja Kim Choe, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI. Cross cutting issues Stuart Basten, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Information gaps and data needs for monitoring policies
11:45 – 12:00	Session VIII: Closing John Wilmoth, Population Division, UNDESA. Closing remarks

Background materials

Policy Brief No. 1: Cross-cutting issues and policies in countries experiencing low fertility
Policy Brief No. 2: Fertility in Australia has remained steady despite policy swings
Policy Brief No. 3: Fertility, family change and policy adjustments in Austria
Policy Brief No. 4: Regional variations in fertility trends and policies in Canada
Policy Brief No. 5: Below-replacement fertility in China: Policy response is long overdue
Policy Brief No. 6: Fertility, family change and policy adjustments in the Czech Republic
Policy Brief No. 7: The influence of family policies on fertility in France
Policy Brief No. 8: Can Hong Kong escape the “low-fertility trap”?
Policy Brief No. 9: Persistence of low fertility in a changing policy environment in Hungary
Policy Brief No. 10: Low fertility, social rigidity and government policies in Italy
Policy Brief No. 11: Government response to low fertility in Japan
Policy Brief No. 12: How has the Netherlands managed to sustain near-replacement fertility?
Policy Brief No. 13: Not so low fertility in Norway - A result of affluence, liberal values, gender-equality ideals and the welfare state
Policy Brief No. 14: Can the Republic of Korea afford continuing very low fertility?
Policy Brief No. 15: Do pro-fertility policies in Singapore offer a model for other low-fertility countries in Asia?
Policy Brief No. 16: The policy context of persistent very low fertility in Spain
Policy Brief No. 17: Can pro-natalist policies reverse the fertility decline in Taiwan Province of China?
Policy Brief No. 18: Institutional and policy context for fertility trends in the United Kingdom
Policy Brief No. 19: What accounts for near replacement-level fertility in the United States?

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World Contraception Day

MSTOCKTO — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:24:00 +0000

Wednesday, 26 September 2018 - 10:00am

26 September is observed by the international community as World Contraception Day. The right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children was asserted at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, and is reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development under target 3.7. “By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes”.

As part of its contribution to monitoring of progress on internationally-agreed targets, the Population Division produces datasets that inform the global monitoring of the progress on commitments made by the Member States on reproductive health. The datasets are used for the global monitoring of the indicator 3.7.1. “Proportion of women of reproductive age (aged 15–49 years) who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods”.

Key results from the analysis of these datasets are:

Globally, among women of reproductive age who are married or in a union, the proportion whose need for family planning is satisfied with modern contraceptive methods increased from 75 per cent in 2000 to 77 per cent in 2018.
Progress has been especially significant in the least developed countries, where this proportion increased from 39 per cent in 2000 to 59 per cent in 2018.
Nevertheless, in 2018, there remain 45 countries, including 27 in sub-Saharan Africa, where less than half of the existing need for family planning is satisfied with modern methods.

The evidence presented in these data sets supports recent calls to increase investments in family planning, especially in the regions of the world where contraceptive prevalence and the demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods are still low, and the number of women of reproductive age is increasing rapidly.

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