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Executive Board Approves 23 UNFPA Programmes, Members Express Strong Support for Fund
- 21 January 2003
The Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and of the United Nations Population Fund approved 23 programmes on Tuesday, 21 January. Ten of the programmes are for Africa, six for Asia and the Pacific, four for Latin America, two for Arab States and one for the South Pacific subregion.
"UNFPA will engage in the implementation of the programmes in line with the word and spirit of the Cairo Programme of Action," said UNFPA's Executive Director, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, after the programmes' approval. She was referring to the Programme of Action adopted by consensus by 179 governments at the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.
The 23 approved programmes were presented to the Board by UNFPA's Deputy Executive Director (Programme), Kunio Waki, who stressed their "strong ownership by the governments' and preparation in accordance with decisions of the Executive Board.
Earlier at the meeting, the UNFPA Executive Director briefed the Board on UNFPA-related developments in 2002. A year, which, she said, had reaffirmed: "UNFPA is a positive force in the world for human dignity and human rights." [see statement]
A record 33 delegations from developed and developing countries took the floor after her speech to express strong support for her and for the work of UNFPA.
The approved programmes were for Africa (Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania and Nigeria); Asia and the Pacific (Bangladesh, China, India, Maldives, Papua New Guinea, the South Pacific subregion and Timor-Leste; Arab States (Djibouti and Jordan) and Latin America (Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela).
Contact Information:
Abubakar Dungus
Email: dungus@unfpa.org
