title: Most countries not meeting financial targets to implement ICPD -- Ms. Ingar Brueggemann.
abstract: Ms. Ingar Brueggemann emphasized that human resources, motivation and financial resources were required for action, and that the role of the parliamentarians was most important in influencing governments to give more resources to population and reproductive health, or to take decisions in making use of those resources.  Ms. Brueggemann summarized the current resource mobilization context by mentioning that most countries were not meeting the target of 0.7% of their GNP to official development assistance; that global average was about 0.22%; and that general trend was toward declining aid budgets.  By 1996, donors had provided only 35% of their share to meet the total requirement of US$17 billion by the year 2000 for the implementation of population package of the ICPD Program of Action.  All major population and reproductive health organizations had seen their income decrease since ICPD.  The main multilateral agency in population, UNFPA, and one of the largest NGOs, IPPF, received voluntary contribution, uncertain and vulnerable by definition, increasingly earmarked to specific activities or countries, and often managed in decentralized manner.  During the ICPD+5 process, the insufficiency of the resources was highlighted as the main obstacle to the implementation of the ICPD Program of Action.  Ms. Brueggemann emphasized both the need to increase the availability of resources and to make the most effective use of those resources, in a world where there was increasing competition for limited resources.  There was a need for more coordination among those competing for the same resources, based on their comparative advantages.
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D004467:Economics; D005376:Financial Management; D006262:Health; D006295:Health Resources; D006280:Health Workforce; D009042:Motivation; D009934:Organization and Administration; D011153:Population; D011584:Psychology; D018456:Reproductive Medicine
keywords: Behavior; Economic Factors; Financial Activities; Health; Human Resources; Motivation; Organization And Administration; Population; Psychological Factors; Reproductive Health; Resources; World