(PointXpress)The Caribbean Forum on Population Development is being held at the Royalton Hotel for two days. The forum is being held by the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean, in collaboration with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and ECLAC. Prime Minister, Gas[1]ton Browne, Minister of Health, Sir Molwyn Joseph, and Foreign Affairs Minister E. P. Chet Greene were among those persons in attendance for the opening ceremony.
The Forum is being held as a way of analyzing and promoting action to address key population issues affecting the subregion, through a review of progress in the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus, the regional agenda for population, ten years on from its adoption. The Forum will discuss emerging issues, and challenges, share lessons learned and best practices, and agree on actions to accelerate implementation of the Consensus. Participants at the forum are reviewing the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development in the Caribbean’s development.
Provisions are being made for the engagement of Governments, legislators, academia, youth leaders, and civil society organizations in a discussion about the status of implementation, opportunities, challenges, lessons learned, and best practices to hasten the realization of the Nairobi Commitments from the ICPD25 Summit as well as the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development. Particularly, the discussions will also focus on important issues like adolescent pregnancy, Gender Based Violence (GBV), migration, and demographic resilience. The goal is to build consensus on a Caribbean vision, develop an action plan to accelerate the Montevideo Consensus’s implementation and endorse commitments for the realization of the same.
