IPCI 2024

The 8th International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (IPCI/ICPD) marked the 30th anniversary of the Cairo Conference. The IPCI Conference promotes dialogue among parliamentarians from all regions of the world on the implementation of the 1994 ICPD Programme of Action. It is the only setting specifically crafted to generate global political consensus around Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) to be translated into tangible national outcomes in policy, funding, and accountability. Approximately 300 participants attended this conference, including around 200 parliamentarians from all regions of the world, representatives from the national, regional, and global parliamentary groups and NGOs. At the eighth global parliamentarians’ conference on population and development, which concluded on Friday 12 April, 172 parliamentarians from 112 countries issued a forward-looking inclusive declaration confirming their commitment to upholding universal sexual and reproductive health and rights, as was agreed at the landmark International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994.

In the Oslo Declaration, the parliamentarians recognized the ICPD Programme of Action as “a beacon of hope,” and celebrated the progress that has been made for women and girls in the three decades since it was adopted. But they also pointed out that crises and polarization are shaking the world, and require them to set out an ambitious vision for the future they want to help create in their legislatures.

Activity Report

The activity report from IPCI 2024 is now available for download in English. Giving a comprehensive overview of the two day conference, the report also contains the full Statement of Commitment and a selection of the best photos.

Activity Report IPCI 2024 – Download here

The Road to 2030

Despite the passage of time, the Cairo Programme of Action has remained relevant and still resonates today as it did in 1994. Parliamentarians at IPCI 2024 pledged to redouble their efforts to implement its visionary recommendations as a key part of the 2030 agenda. The conference will elaborate and adopt a Statement of Commitment and Plan of Action that will spell out concrete actions to be taken by parliamentarians, building upon previous IPCI Commitments. The IPCI Conference aims at promoting dialogue among parliamentarians from all regions of the world on the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a view to achieving further commitment to collective action in the areas of resource mobilisation and the creation of an enabling environment for SRHR.

The conference will elaborate and adopt a Statement of Commitment and Plan of Action that will spell out concrete actions to be taken by parliamentarians, building upon previous IPCI Commitments.

The IPCI Conference aims at promoting dialogue among parliamentarians from all regions of the world on the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a view to achieving further commitment to collective action in the areas of resource mobilisation and the creation of an enabling environment for SRHR.

Since 2002, UNFPA and the parliamentary networks active on SRHR have been organizing a regular international parliamentarians’ conference to discuss resource mobilisation and the creation of an enabling environment for sexual and reproductive rights issues. The first International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (IPCI/ICPD) was held in November 2002, in Ottawa, Canada, with subsequent IPCI/ICPD gathering in France (2004), in Thailand (2006), in Ethiopia (2009), in Turkey (2012), in Sweden (2014) in and the seventh in October 2018 in Ottawa,
Canada.

The IPCI/ICPD conferences are organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) the Global Parliamentary Alliance on Health, Rights and Development, an initiative of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. This year the conference is hosted by Stortingets SRHR Nettverk (APPG Norway) and its secretariat Sex og Politikk.