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Restoring Balance

Restoring Balance. Jane O ’ Sullivan. Sustainable Population Australia www.population.org.au “ Sustainability starts with a stable population ”. Importance of reproductive health and family planning:. For women ’ s rights and empowerment For maternal and infant health

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Restoring Balance

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  1. Restoring Balance Jane O’Sullivan Sustainable Population Australia www.population.org.au “Sustainability starts with a stable population”

  2. Importance of reproductive health and family planning: • For women’s rights and empowerment • For maternal and infant health • For addressing population growth

  3. Family planning* is effective in reducing family size and population growth. *any combination of non-coercive measures to reduce barriers to women and couples exercising choice in timing and number of children, and to inform that choice. One Child Policy

  4. Basic Research HIV/AIDS Basic ReproductiveHealth Services Family Planning Services Without focus on population as a problem, support for FP and SRHR withered. Distribution of funding for ‘population assistance’ Source:S.W. Sinding 2009. Population Poverty and Economic Development.Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2009 364, 3023-3030.

  5. As a direct result, fertility reduction slowed and population increment reversed. The UN Medium Projection is not being met, nor can Millennium Development Goals be met in LDCs.

  6. Family planning underpins development Relation between Birth Rate and Hunger

  7. Family planning underpins development Relation between Birth Rate and Hunger Investment in Family Planning has been more effective in reducing hunger than investment in Agriculture. Both are needed – in balance.

  8. Family planning underpins development Relation between Birth Rate and Hunger The funding pie - Balanced? Investment in Family Planning has been much more effective in reducing hunger than investment in Agriculture. Both are needed – in balance.

  9. Population growth is a climate change issue. • Reducing population growth adds value to everything else we do – in adaptation and mitigation.

  10. Population growth is a climate change issue. • Reducing population growth adds value to everything else we do – in adaptation and mitigation. Omission is a barrier. • The climate response is a game-changer for the development agenda. • Issues omitted will be marginalised. • Omission of population from the MDGs has seen a resurgence of growth, undermining all MDGs. • Let’s not make the same mistake again.

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