About this Pre-conference

This pre-conference aims to bring the world’s experience in achieving demographic dividend offering tangible lessons and best practices and scientific findings relevant to countries going through demographic transition. Importantly, the pre-conference also highlights significant contextual changes in the decades, including intersecting challenges and opportunities to promote resilience drawn from the COVID-19 pandemic, and discussions about the concept of a second demographic dividend.

Featured Speakers:

• Dr. Julitta Onabanjo, United Nations Population Fund Director of the Technical Division, UNFPA Headquarters
• Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Honorable Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

The DD pre-conference was structured around the four following panels:

Panel 1:

Success stories from East Asia, context evolution, and implications for FP, fertility, women’s time use, and women’s workforce participation

Panel 2:

Data and monitoring tools to measure and track women’s empowerment

Panel 3:

Promoting resilient human capital development in the context of external shocks and implications for the attainment of a DD

Panel 4:

Recovering from and building resilience to shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic

Contact

For more information, please reach out to info@theICFP.org.