Education is empowerment: promoting goals in population, reproductive health and gender
This meeting report is based on a Fund-wide consultation to review UNFPA's three-decade long experience in population education (PopEd).
This meeting report is based on a Fund-wide consultation to review UNFPA's three-decade long experience in population education (PopEd).
The document is an outcome of a seminar convened in May 2001 by the Population Council's Robert H. Ebert Program on Critical Issues in Reproductive Health.
The Consultation, convened by WHO and UNICEF in March 2002 in Stockholm, Sweden, highlighted the importance of investing in the health of children and adolescents as a cost-effective way of securing future prosperity of nations.
The theme of the Meeting was "Integrated approaches to youth health: focus on sexual and reproductive health, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS".