Third African population conference: report of the conference and related activities

Abstract

The Conference of Ministers of Planning and Economic Development of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) decided at its seventeenth meeting held in Addis Ababa, in May 1991, to convene the third session of the African Population Conference (APC 3) and accepted the invitation by the Government of Senegal to host it. The Ministers also established a Preparatory Committee/or the Conference, under the chairmanship of the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and ECA Executive Secretary, inter alia, to propose the theme and the agenda of the Conference. APC3 has known real success in view of its objectives. Experts and ministers reviewed experiences of the implementation of the Kilimanjaro Programme of Action on Population and Sustained Development ill Africa (KPA) adopted in 1984 in Arusha by APC. 2. They reaffirmed the continued validity of KPA as a framework for African development. Lessons were drawn for a better implementation of these programmes. The present publication on the proceedings of the Conference is in three volumes. Volume I is in four parts: part I gives useful information on the organization of the Conference and some feedback on the Declaration. It contains reports of proceedings. The report of the meeting of experts, the list of participants, and the Dakar/Ngor Declaration as adopted by APC. 3 and endorsed by the Economic Commission for Africa at its twenty-eighth session (Addis Ababa, 3-6 May 1993).