PIONEERS IN POPULATION FIELD HONOURED BY PARTNERS IN POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT (PPD): 18/02/2009 (MaximsNews Network)

       UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 18 February 2009 -- The pioneers in the international population field of the ICPD, PPD and South-South Cooperation were honoured at a ceremony of the International Forum on "ICPD @ 15: Progress and Prospects" by the Partners in Population and Development (PPD).   

The PPD is an inter-governmental organisation (IGO), launched at the 1994 ICPD in Cairo; it has a unique mandate, which is cemented in the ICPD Programme of Action and the ICPD+5 document adopted in 1999 by the United Nations General Assembly.

The six distinguished persons were honoured by conferring a Commemorative Plaque and a Certificate of Excellence by H.E. Mrs. Janet Museveni, Honourable First Lady of Uganda who handed over the Commemorative Plaques and PPD Chairperson H.E. Dr. Li Bin handed over the Certificate of Excellence to the awardees.

The Recipients of the Awards and their biographies are as follows:  

Professor Haryono Suyono, currently the Chairman of Damandiri Foundation completed his MA in Social Science and a Ph.D in Sociology specializing in Population and Development from University of Chicago in 1971. Prof. Suyono was the Chief of Social Statistics Bureau in Indonesia. He served as Deputy Chairman, National Family Planning Coordinating Board (NFPCB) from 1972 to 1983 and became the Chairman of NFPCB. Prof. Suyono served the Government of Indonesia as Minister for Population from 1993 to 1998 and as Minister Coordinating for People Welfare from 1998 to 1999.

Prof. Suyono has been associated with numerous national and international organizations and contributed significantly in the field of Population and Development. Currently he is the President of Indonesian Sociological Association, Deputy Chairman of Stroke Foundation, President of Indonesian National Committee for Social Welfare, President of Scout Friendships, and Member of AUICK, Kobe. Prof. Suyono served as President of Indonesian Demographic Association, President of ICOMP, Chairman of Indra Foundation and was Founder and Secretary General of Partners in Population and Development from 1995 to 1998.

For his lifelong achievements in the Population and Development sector, Prof. Haryono Suyono received numerous prestigious awards namely, Hugh Moore Awards for Innovation, Washington, 1995; Mahaputera Utama, Special Class of National Awards, 1982; Mahaputera Adipradana, Highest Level National Awards, 1996; Republic of Indonesia, Special National Awards, 1998; Professorship from University of Airlangga, Surabaya, 1994; Doctor Honoris Causa from Monash University, 1995 and Honorary Member of Indonesian Doctor Association, 1996. A hall in Johns Hopkins University has been named as "Haryono Hall" in honour of Prof. Suyono in 1995.

Dr. Nafis Sadik, born in Jaunpur, India, holds a Doctor of Medicine Degree from Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan, interned in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at City Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, and further studied at The Johns Hopkins University. From 1954-1963, Dr. Sadik served as civilian medical officer in various Pakistani armed forces hospitals, and was Pakistan's Director-General of the Central Family Planning Council (1966-1970). She joined UNFPA in 1971, and served as its Executive Director from 1987-2000. She was the first woman in the United Nations, to head one of its major voluntarily-funded programmes. Following her retirement in 2000, Dr. Sadik was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as Special Advisor, with responsibilities as UN Special Envoy for HIV-AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.

Dr. Sadik is well-known for her dynamism and guiding force in the field of maternal and child health, reproductive and sexual health, and a strong advocate for education and prevention of HIV-AIDS. Under her leadership as Secretary-General of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in 1994, the approach to reproductive health which includes empowering women through education and economic opportunity, was unanimously agreed to by the international community. It is under her leadership that the South-South Initiative was included in the ICPD PoA in 1994, following which PPD was formed. As a stunt supporter of South-South Cooperation, she has always been since 1994 by the side of PPD as a guiding force. Her special assistance to PPD especially in the early years was instrumental in the growth of PPD. Among her numerous national and international awards and honours, Dr. Sadik was the recipient of the 2001 United Nations Population Award for her outstanding contribution to the awareness of population issues, and recognition of her significant, life-long contribution to addressing women's rights and sexual and reproductive health rights.

Dr. Sadik was a member of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panels on, "Threats, Challenges and Change", and "Alliance of Civilizations". She is a member of the Board of Directors of several national and international organizations, and author of publications on reproductive health and family, population and development, women, and gender and development.

Mr. Jyoti Shankar Singh is the former Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). He was the Executive Coordinator of UN International Conference on Population in 1984 and UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994. Mr. Singh served as Special Advisor to Executive Director, UNFPA on ICPD+5 Review from 1998 to 1999 and was the Executive Coordinator, United Nations World Conference against Racism from 2000 to 2001.

Currently Mr. Jyoti Singh is the Permanent Observer to the UN for Partners in Population and Development. Mr. Jyoti Singh played a key role in the formation of PPD and has been contributing to PPD and South-South Cooperation since 1994.

Mr. Singh is the author of several books widely studied globally, namely, Creating a New Consensus on Population, Earthscan, London, 1998; South to South: Developing Countries Working Together on Population and Development (ed.), Population 2005, Washington D.C.,2000; Un nuveo consenso sobre poblacion, Icaria, Barcelona, 2001; The Population Challenge in Asia: Parliamentarians as Advocates and Policy Makers, Population 2005, Washington DC and AFPPD, Bangkok, 2002 and 2006.

He was President of Population 2005 in the years1999-2005,aglobalnetworkof individuals with significant experience in the population field who are committed to the earliest possible implementation of the Programme of Action adopted at the Cairo Conference.

Dr. Sara Seims joined the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in October 2003 as Director of the Population Program. Immediately prior she was president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute since November 1999, where she led the organization to a greater involvement in international reproductive health issues and behavioral research in the areas of HIV-AIDS.

Dr. Seims was associate director of population sciences at The Rockefeller Foundation in New York for six years. At the Foundation, she contributed to the expansion of international collaboration in reproductive health and promoted dialogue between developed and developing nations on both programmatic and policy issues relating to women's and reproductive health. For three consecutive years she was named by Earth Times as one of the key actors in sustainable development. She is very much committed to promote the ICPD agenda and South-South Cooperation. Her support to PPD since 1994 has been remarkable and instrumental in putting PPD on the rail.

Dr. Seims is on the board of Nairobi-based Africa Population and Health Research and a former member of the board of directors of Management Sciences for Health in Boston, where she ran the population division. She has also been deputy chief of two divisions of the United States Agency for International Development: the Office of Health, Population and Nutrition in Dakar, Senegal, and the policy division of the Office of Population in Washington, D.C. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the National AIDS Fund and the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and Chair of the Development Committee of the Population Association of America. In 2007, she accepted an invitation to join UNESCO's Global Advisory Group on HIV and Sex Education.

Dr. Seims received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Professor Dr. Nabiha Gueddana is the General Director, National Office of Family and Population, Ministry of Public Health, responsible for the National Family Planning Programme and Policy Development in Tunisia; She is currently a Board Member of and was the first Chair of Partners in Population and Development from 1995 to 1998; Previously she was the Secretary of State for the Prime Minister in charge of Women's and Family Affairs and former Secretary of State for the Ministry of Social Affairs in charge of Social Protection and Promotion.

Professor Gueddana has published many books and articles in major international journals. Originally from the island of Djerba in Tunisia, she is a professor of paediatrics, and has long been involved in reproductive health and family planning activities at the national, regional and international levels. Professor Gueddana is recognized globally for her significant contribution in promotion of South-South Cooperation and ICPD Programme of Action.

Now a Senior Fellow at the Guttmacher Institute and independent consultant, Dr. Steven Sinding retired in 2006 after four years as Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, headquartered in London. He directed a global federation of 150 member associations and six regional offices, operating programs in 180 countries around the world.

Dr. Sinding was Professor of Population and Family Health and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Columbia University from 1999 to 2002 where he wrote and published "Re-engaging with the Developing World: the Aid Imperative" (2002).From 1991 to 1999, he directed the Population Sciences program at The Rockefeller Foundation, providing grants for social science, policy, and biomedical research. In 1994 he was a member of the United States delegation to the International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo and in 1990-91 was the World Bank's senior population advisor. He has been since then an ardent supporter of South-South Cooperation for the attainment of ICPD Goals. He is one of the founding fathers of PPD and contributed immensely in providing both financial and technical support to PPD especially in the early years.

Dr. Sinding had a 20-year career at the U.S. Agency for International Development (1971-1990) during which he served as Director of the Mission to Kenya (1986-1990) and Agency Director for Population (1983-1986). He and his family also lived in Pakistan and the Philippines.

Dr. Sinding has published extensively on international population and reproductive health matters and speaks frequently to both academics and general audiences on these issues. He is the author of the article on Family Planning Programs in the Encyclopedia of Population and co-editor of Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World (Oxford: 2001). A Government major at Oberlin, Dr. Sinding earned a Ph.D. in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970. He is married to Monica Knorr and they have two grown daughters.

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