Population information network for Africa: POPIN-Africa

Abstract

The eventual goal of POPIN-Africa is to enable, ECA member States to develop their own national information centers and infrastructures to support their decision-making and policies within the general context of their socio-economic development planning. POPIN-Africa operates as part of a global population information network comprising other regional systems and networks in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe. The total resources of all these information services and activities are helping towards addressing the concerns as expressed in the WPPA of 1974. Moreover, it collaborates with the Pan-African Development Information System (PADIS), also located at ECA, to ensure adequate coverage of information and data on African population issues. The Specific immediate objectives of POPIN-Africa are to improve the flow of information among institutions and organizations dealing with population information and data in Africa; standardize the information in order to ensure compatible systems and services among ECA member States; promote greater interest in population issues among policy makers, planners, media, and the general public; assist in the formulation of sound population policies and programs by providing access to population information ; collaborate with members of the international Population Information Network (POPIN) and other interested international agencies to improve the flow of information, world-wide.