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NO. 253 August 1995
ISSN 0911-0755
JOICFP NEWS
I akeo Fukuda Dies at 90
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World loses tireless, pioneering
leader of population and
development field; JOICFP
loses dynamic president
Former Prime Minister of Japan Takeo
•.uda, 90, died in Tokyo on July 5 of chronic
emphysema. An international spokesperson on
issues ranging from population, food
production and environment to disarmament
and poverty alleviation, Fukuda was president
of JOICFP at the time of his death.
An ailing Fukuda made a final public
appearance at the 13th Session of the
InterAction Council in Tokyo on May 23,
where his impassioned speech on balancing
population growth and food supply left a deep
impression on the audience. Fukuda, one of the
founders of the council, stepped down as
honorary chairman at the meeting.
A close associate of former Japanese Prime
Minister Nobusuke Kishii, Fukuda took the
helm of JOICFP in November 1987 following
Kishii’s death. A dynamic leader and tireless
campaigner for population issues both within
an and on an international level, Fukuda
neid various prominent posts at the time of his
death including the chairmanship of the Japan
Parliamentarians Federation for Population
(JPFP), a post he had held since 1979.
A native of Gunma Prefecture and graduate
of Tokyo University, Fukuda held various
government posts as a career bureaucrat before
joining politics as a member of the former
Liberal Democratic Party. He held the cabinet
posts of minister of agriculture, foreign
minister, deputy prime minister and director
general of the Economic Planning Agency in
addition to the premiership.
He is most well-known as a prime minister
for concluding the amity treaty with China in
1978. Fukuda passed his political faction to
Shintaro Abe in 1986 to focus on world peace
and population issues as a leading member of
the InterAction Council. He retired from
politics in 1991.
Fukuda was committed to promoting action
in the population and development field up to
Takeo Fukuda, as he celebrated his appointment as JOICFP president in January 1988.
the time of his death. As chairman of JPFP,
Fukuda sought to unite lawmakers from
different political parties on population and
development and was instrumental in
promoting the concept of parliamentarian
bodies on population and development in other
countries. He won the UN Peace Medal for his
contribution to the population field in 1981.
Condolence messages have poured in from
around the world following Fukuda’s death.
Funeral ceremonies were held for Fukuda in
Tokyo on July 6 and 7. They were attended by
parliamentarians, top officials of government
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and representatives from the population and
development field from around the world. Dr.
Halfdan Mahler, secretary general, and Mark
Laskin, assistant secretary general, IPPF,
attended the funeral. Dr. Hirofumi Ando,
deputy executive director, UNFPA, also
attended.
An official memorial service, organized by
the Cabinet and Liberal Democratic Party, will
be held in Tokyo on September 6.
Fukuda’s official duties at JOICFP were
taken over by JOICFP Vice President Shidzue
Kato, who is serving as acting president.
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World Population Day
Be Heard at Beijing, Urges Sai
At a special symposium held on July 11 to
mark World Population Day, Dr. Fred Sai,
president, IPPF, made a plea for Japan to take
leadership at the World Conference on Women
in Beijing to ensure that the September
conference builds on the progress made at the
International Conference on Population and
Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994.
The symposium was held in Tokyo under the
Fred Sai makes a keynote address.
theme of “Earth Family” and focused on the
role of NGOs. It was organized by the Council
on Population Education and JOICFP with the
support of UNFPA, IPPF and the IP Forum.
Around 200 people attended the symposium
where Katsuhide Kitatani, senior advisor,
UNFPA, provided a message from Dr. Nafis
Sadik, executive director, UNFPA.
Noting the appalling statistics on
reproductive mortality and morbidity, Sai said
that better health would follow if progress was
made in improving gender equity: better female
access to education and credit, policy-making
and management. Women should also have
greater say in the planning and decision-making
of reproductive health services, he added.
Sai had particularly strong words to say
about the Japanese government’s reluctance to
approve the low-dose oral contraceptive pill.
Commenting that the lack of access seems like
a form of male oppression, Sai said there is no
medical justification or humanitarian grounds
for withholding the availability of the pill, a
contraceptive that gives women control over
Challenges for
NGOs
their own fertility without male intervention.
Sai also had hard, but encouraging words
A panel discussion, held during the World
for NGOs, “One of the important attributes of
Population Day Symposium, focused on the
NGOs is to stimulate government into being
expanding role of the NGO and growing
accountable and into moving onto the right
path. We need to be sure that we are asking for international recognition of the effectiveness of
NGOs. The discussion, which featured four
the rights and freedoms of individuals;
panelists, was coordinated by Professor
freedom from want, freedom from hunger and
Masaaki Yasukawa, executive secretary,
freedom from abject poverty. It is in this spirit
Council on Population Education.
that we have been discussing
Yoko Kitazawa, president, People to People
reproductive rights and
reproductive health — particularly Aid, began by noting the acceptance by the
government of NGOs as partners in
the role and place of women in
International assistance. She cautioned,
society, and in the development
however, that to effectively fill this role, NGOo
process generally. The NGOs
must become experts in their respective fields.
have a great part to play. They
Drawing on the experiences of JOICFP,
will need funds, but they will also
Yasuo Kon, executive director, JOICFP, noted
have to raise funds themselves.
NGOs have to be deserving of the that NGOs work closest to the community and
have to determine the real needs of the people.
support. They should not let the
support make them slaves of
He said that NGOs can function more
government. Otherwise they have effectively overseas if they have experiences in
their own countries to use as a base.
no right to be NGOs.
Looking ahead to the Beijing Conference
“No matter what we feel
about the language of Cairo, it has on Women, Makiko Arima, president,
been agreed upon. I would like to Yokohama Women’s Association for
Communication and Networking, expressed
advise that the Japanese delega
tion stands its ground in the same
concern for the brackets around reproductive
rights and health in the Beijing document. She
way that it did at the Social
Summit, so that when it comes to
said NGOs must work together to reflect the
reproductive health and rights —
spirit of Cairo in the Beijing conference.
Hideki Kato, director, research Department,
the language of Cairo will stand. Don’t keep
Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy,
quiet. It would be wrong for a great country
Ministry of Finance, said that the government«
like Japan to keep quiet as it so often does in
willing to set up support mechanisms for NGOs
international meetings.
to work as partners, but stressed that NGOs
“To you (Japanese people) coming to
Beijing, please let your voices be
heard. There is too much to lose by
letting those who are anxious to hold
women down, who, for ideological,
religious or other reasons of their own,
would like to take sexuality out of
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human life. Let us speak out and let
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them hear clearly that the human being
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and that sexuality needs to be under
stood and needs to be catered for from
a very early age. This (Japanese)
The panel discussion in progress.
leadership maybe only psychological
but it will be appreciated worldwide. I
hope that you can make your stand known
so that we can see a world in the future where
must refine their capabilities and strategies. He
said he expects a very important international
we can say no human being goes to bed as a
contribution from NGOs to guide governments
sexual being without understanding what it
ahead of the Beijing conference.
means for himself or herself.”
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Around the World
Workshop Broadens
Donor Perspectives
A workshop for donor countries was held in
New York from June 12 - 14 to explore ways to
further the operational aspects of the Program
of Action of the 1994 International Conference
on Population
and
Development
(ICPD) of
Cairo. The
event was
jointly
organized by
Jlermo Martinezthe U.S.
Correcher, deputy director,
Agency for
Technical Cabinet, Spanish
Agency for International
International
Cooperation
Development
(USAID) and
U.K. Overseas Development Administration
(ODA) in response to a request for a follow-up
of Cairo by donor countries which attended a
meeting of the Development Assistance Com
mittee (DAC) of the OECD in November 1994.
The Donor Workshop on Implementing
Reproductive Health Programs focused on
deepening the understanding of the options and
strategies that will most effectively contribute
to improving reproductive health and advancing
the Cairo program. Among the key issues to
emerge during the event was the effectiveness
of working to promote reproductive health
ain an integrated program. The importance
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of involving NGOs
was also impressed
upon the donors.
The workshop
was attended by 68
participants from 16
countries and such
international bodies
From left, Ishikawa with Duff Gillespie, deputy assistant administrator,
as UNFPA, IPPF and
and Elizabeth Maguire, director of Office of Population, Center for
the World Bank.
Population, Health and Nutrition, USAID; John Worley, Population and
Reproductive Health Specialist, Health and Population Division, ODA;
Japan was the only
and David Nabarro, ODA.
country at the
workshop to include
an NGO representative
in its official delegation. The delegation, led by implemented as part of official development
Kaoru Ishikawa, director, Technical
assistance activities.
Cooperation Division, Economic Cooperation
The workshop wound up with general
Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, included
agreement among the donors to work towards
Harumi Kitabayashi, deputy director, Japan
achieving programs that are under national
International Cooperation Agency and JOICFP
leadership rather than donor-driven programs.
Senior Program Officer Kiyoko Ikegami.
Participants also expressed a desire to work
In comments made at the workshop,
more closely in collaboration to fund
Ikegami stressed the important role of NGOs in reproductive health programs in the future.
reproductive health programs and the
effectiveness of South-to-South collaboration
for sharing experiences. She also urged follow
Kato Awarded
up activities after the workshop to advocate the
concept of reproductive health within Japan.
Ikegami emphasized the need for guidelines for
the Japanese government to incorporate the
concept of reproductive health in programs
JoiCFP Joins GU Mission to
Bangladesh
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
included a member of JOICFP in a project
formulation mission which was in Bangladesh
from June 12 -20. JOICFP Senior Program
Officer Ryoichi Suzuki was the only
representative of an NGO to join the mission
sent to explore possibilities for formulating
Japanese cooperation projects in the fields of
population and AIDS in Bangladesh. While in
Bangladesh, Suzuki assisted with analysis of
NGO activities.
The delegation was dispatched under the
Japanese government’s Global Issues Initiative
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(GII) on Population and AIDS which was
launched in 1994. Under the initiative, the
government has expressed its desire to work
closely with NGOs as partners. JOICFP staff
members have participated in several project
formulation missions and have provided other
services under the GII.
Headed by Kazuo Watanabe, director,
Research & Programming Division, Economic
Cooperation Bureau, MOFA, the mission in
cluded other representatives of MOFA, Ministry
of Health and Welfare, Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) and experts.
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Shidzue Kato, president of Family
Planning Federation of Japan (FPFJ)
and acting president of JOICFP.
received a special award on July 18
from Brown University in Rhode Island.
She was honored in recognition for her
efforts on behalf of J apanese women.
One of Japan’s most prominent family
planning pioneers, Kato, 98, remains a
strong voice on women’s issues.
State of World Population
A New Era in Population
and Development
LIFE-CYCLE APPROACH TO
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
SERVICES
PROBLEMS
Circulatory diseases
Prolapse/Osteoporosis
Reproductive trad and breast cancels
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POST
MENOPAUSAL
(Atlected by earlier reproductive experience)
Early diagnosis: information; treatment
STD prevention and treatment, early diagnosis,
information, treatment
Malnutrition'Anaemia (all ages)
Supplementation, education
sustainable population growth.
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Intertility
Counselling, primary prevention
Empowering women is an
Treatment; counselling, family planning, education
Complications ol abortion
in responsible sexual behaviour
important end in itself, as well
Family planning, antenatal, delivery and postpartum
Maternal morbidity and mortality
care; emergency obstetric care, tetanus
as a key to improving the
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Immunization
Regulation of fertility
Family planning; contraception, information
quality of life of everyone.
REPROOUCTIVf and education
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Counselling; legal/social change
Commercial sex
This year’s The State of World Population
Without the full and equal
Substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, tobacco)
Education; treatment; counselling
Gender violence (all ages)
Counselling: legal/social change; education
report focuses on the impact of the Internat
participation of women, there
Harmful traditional practices
Empowerment: legal/social change; education
ional Conference on Population and Develop
can be no sustainable human
STD/HIV (and Infants through
Detection; treatment, counselling: education;
vertical transmission)
prevention; appropriate contraception
ment (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994 and outlines development. The Program of
Nutrition (all ages)
Supplementation; education
challenges in the population and development
Action emphasizes the need
Unsafe sexual practices (and older ages)
Family life education
ADOLESCENT
field. Below are highlights of the report.
for gender equity and equality
Adolescent pregnancy
Family life education, counselling, family planning
Environmental health; occupational health: primary
Other diseases (all ages)
The ICPD was the start of a new era in
and the support of men for the
health care; education; immunization
population and development. The ICPD Pro
empowerment of women. It
Anteualal delivery and postpartum care;
Neonalal morbidity and mortality
CHILD
breast-feeding
gram of Action explicitly places human beings, enunciates the right to
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Low birth weight
Supplementation, education; antenatal care,
BIRTH
health promolion; disease prevention
rather than human numbers, at the center of all
universal, comprehensive
population and development activities. It
reproductive health care,
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WHO/FHE/RHP7, WHO/FHE/RHP9
encourages the international community to
including family planning
address global problems by meeting individual
(FP), and it points out that for
needs, while maintaining the responsibilities
women, a context which also includes
population and development. It moves away
and sovereignty of governments.
education and access to resources is essential as from the focus on fertility towards a
Investing in people, in broadening their
the basis of empowerment.
comprehensive approach that integrates FP with
opportunities and enabling them to realize their
The Program of Action spells out an
reproductive health and addresses a wider range
potential as human beings, is the key to
integrated response to population and devel
of concerns, particularly economic status,
sustained economic growth and sustainable
opment challenges in the decades ahead. This
education and gender equity and equality.
development, as well as to balanced,
new approach is based on the achievements of
The document reaffirms the basic human
population and
right of all couples and individuals to decide
• ••••• development profreely and responsibly the number and spacing
e grams, but it also
of their children and to have the information,
• reflects the need for
education and means to do so. It stresses that
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men have a key role to play in bringing about
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gender equity and equality, in fostering wo
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• 5.7 billion. According improving women’s reproductive health. Goals
• to the UN projections, set out in three related areas: expanded access
• annual population
to education, particularly for girls; reduced
• increments are likely
mortality rates; and increased access to quality
• to remain above 86
reproductive health services, including FP.
From left, Kyoichi Nakamura, information advisor,
• million until the year
Women in most societies have many roles,
• Information and External Relations Division, UNFPA; Dr.
• 2015. Projections for
but often only one, their role in reproduction, is
• Hirofumi Ando, deputy executive director, UNFPA; Dr. Toshio
recognized; and even in that they can expect
e Kuroda, director emeritus, NUPRI; and Makiko Arima, president, e 2015 range from 7.1
• billion to 7.8 billion,
little support. For most, they cannot participate
• Yokohama Women’s Association for Communication and
• and for 2050 from 7.9 fully in economic and public life, have limited
e Networking, answer questions from the media at a press
• billion to 11.9 billion;
access to positions of influence and power, and
• conference on July 5 at the Japan Press Center. The meeting,
• the actual totals
have narrower occupational choices and lower
e held to introduce UNFPA’s The State of World Population, was
• reached will largely be earnings than men. Too often, they have little
• attended by 50 journalists. The report was later featured in all
• determined by action
or no voice in decisions made in or outside the
e major media in Japan on July 11. The UN estimates of
• taken during the rest
household; and too often, even their
• population growth were printed in major newspapers, which
reproductive health is ignored. These inequities
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The Cairo
must be redressed to fulfill women’s human
• maintaining the momentum of Cairo with regard to reproductive
rights and enable countries to progress towards
e health and rights and women’s empowerment was featured in the • conference agreed on
• a Program of Action
sustainable development.
• editorial of the Mainichi Shimbun, while other newspapers
Towards this end, all forms of
e focused on such issues as male responsibility in family planning. • for the next 20 years
• in the field of
discrimination should be outlawed and opposed
Cairo put human beings at
center of population &
development activities, says
UNFPA publication
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State of World Population
should be encouraged to take
responsibility for their sexual
and reproductive behavior
and for household
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obligations, to allow women
to become equal partners in
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public and private life.
Providing sex education
in schools can help protect
teenagers from the risks of
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people need access to
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relations, violence, preven
tion of STDs including HIV/
AIDS, and prevention and
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treatment of sexual abuse
and incest. In addition, they
need access to reproductive services appropriate countries have dramatically expanded the
availability of FP services, accelerating a
for their age and their community.
decline in fertility rates. Some 57% of couples
One third of the illness among developing
in developing countries now use contraceptives
country women aged 15-44 is related to
compared
to around 14% in 1965 - 1970. The
pregnancy, childbirth, abortion,
total fertility rate in developing countries has
HIV and RTIs. High levels of
declined from 6.1 children per woman in the
maternal mortality and poor
1950s to 3.7 today. Female sterilization, oral
maternal
health
are
closely
related
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to low social and economic status contraceptives and IUDs account for the most
use of modem methods.
of women. Preventing unwanted
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pregnancy or
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protecting themselves
against disease is
difficult or even
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have more than 40
Article 39 of the UPL, which allows licensed
million abortions
• family planning workers to sell contraceptives, was •
each year. Between 26 and 31
To promote reproductive rights, the
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million are performed legally, and
Program of Action calls on all countries to
• 5 years or becomes invalid. The resolution was made •
provide universal access to a full range of high- some 20 million are performed
• with the decision for another 5-year extension.
under unsafe conditions accounting •
quality reproductive health services —
The resolution states that information and
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for an estimated 67,000 deaths. An • counseling services to enhance reproductive health
including safe, effective, affordable and
even larger number of women
acceptable methods of FP — through their
• and rights should be promoted in line with the 1994 •
suffer long-term complications
primary health care systems by 2015 or sooner.
• ICPD Program of Action. Research and training
such as infection, pain and
Experience around the world has shown
should also reflect the new direction.
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that to address people’s reproductive and sexual infertility. While stating that “in no •
The resolution is welcomed by women as an
health needs, FP services need to be integrated
case should abortion be promoted
• encouraging step forward in that the terms of
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as a method of FP,” the Program of • “reproductive health and rights” were for the first
into a wider framework which addresses their
Action calls on governments to
overall health and well-being. Comprehensive
• time stated with accurate Japanese translation in an
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deal with unsafe abortion as a
reproductive health care can be built on the
• official document of the Diet (parliament). It is
major public health concern and to
foundation of FP programs which already exist
• hoped that the move helps further deepen the
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reduce recourse to abortion through • understanding of reproductive health and rights
in the primary health care systems of some 155
countries, generally combining FP with
expanded and improved FP
• among both Diet members and government officials. •
maternal and child health care.
services.
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In the past 20 years, many
The Program of Action states that men
in civic life; traditional laws and practices
which enforce women’s subordination must be
challenged. Also important is enacting and
enforcing laws setting minimum age at
marriage to protect young women from the
dangers of early child-bearing and allow them
to take advantage of options beyond
motherhood.
Key contributions to women’s
empowerment will be in education and health,
including reproductive health and FP.
While health issues related to reproduction
and sexuality affect women and men of all ages,
women bear most of the associated burden of
ill-health. Essential aspects of reproductive
health include FP, safe motherhood, and
orevention and treatment of reproductive tract
ections (RTIs) and STDs. A central
achievement of the ICPD was its promotion of
a comprehensive approach to meeting the
totality of people’s reproductive health needs,
particularly those of women and girls.
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Africa
In Touch with Community
Needs in Tanzania
The coverage of the Integrated Project (IP)
in Tanzania has expanded from three villages
with a population of 20,000 when it was
launched in 1984 to the current 99 villages with
a population of 311,000. More villages are
expected to initiate the project this year. As the
project expands, staff and community people
are focusing on ways to design mechanisms for
future sustainability. One of the important
ways that project continuity is being pursued is
through income-generating activities of such
community bodies as women’s and youth
groups and local governments.
One area in which the project has shown
dramatic success is in raising the contraceptive
prevalence rate (CPR), an achievement that has
encouraged the Family Planning Association of
Tanzania (UMATI) which implements the
project. In villages where the project was
initiated over 5 years ago, the average CPR is
60% against the national average of 10%.
Establishing community-based service
(CBS) and community-based distributors
(CBDs) in villages has been crucial to raising
family planning (FP) acceptance. Selected by
their communities, CBDs must be graduates of
primary school, be able to read and write and
must be trusted by the community people. Able
to provide services at convenient times, the 288
CBDs working under the IP supplement or
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Yoshio Koike, UNFPA country
director for Sierra Leone (left), expresses
gratitude to Saburo Iwanami, mayor,
Nerima City of Tokyo, for the city’s
donation of 50 of 150 reconditioned
bicycles shipped to Sierra Leone in May
1994 by the Municipal Coordinating
Committee for Overseas Bicycle
Assistance (MCCOBA). Koike paid his
courtesy call to the mayor on June 8.
replace the clinical
services for
villagers. To further
enhance these
services, an UM ATI
dispensary has been
set up for cost
recovery and to
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ensure a constant
supply of essential
drugs.
The estab
Community-based distributors working in areas where the IP is
lishment of nursery
implemented receive refresher training.
schools in IP areas
has also had consi
derable spin-off effects for the project. Not
establishment of nurseries has encouraged
vegetable cultivation and cooking to ensure a
only has it become simpler to identify ill health
stable supply of meals for the children.
and malnutrition cases among children, but
As the project continues to expand and
reaching families with health messages
including FP has become easier. The nurseries, diversify in Tanzania, the need for strategies to
sustain services at the grass roots has emerged
which provide basic education, have
as one of the most pressing issues. In
encouraged some parents to start literacy
classes. Mothers have also been freed to pursue particular, the need to find a means to sustain
the services of CBDs on a long-term basis is
other activities and be more receptive to the
receiving attention.
idea of birth spacing. In addition, the
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Towards Realistic Programs
Realistic ways to implement the Dakar/
Ngor Declaration and ICPD Program of Action
were the focus of discussion at a workshop held
in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire from June 6 -9. The
joint Organization of African Unity/Africa
Development Bank/UN Economic Commission
for Africa (ECA/OAU/ADB) and UNFPA/IPPF
experts/NGOs workshop brought together
experts in Africa with representatives of NGOs
and international agencies in a focused effort to
review implementation of the declaration and
Program of Action and produce realistic
guidelines to further their implementation to
meet the needs of people in Africa. JOICFP
was among the NGOs from the population/
family planning field attending the regional
conference and was the only NGO from Asia.
The role of NGOs as partners in the
implementation of the recommendations was a
major focus of the workshop. Discussions were
particularly active on the sensitive issue of the
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need for collaboration between NGOs and
government. NGO representatives called
attention to the need for governments to support
NGO activities as international assistance
channels show stronger interest to NGO
programs.
Another important issue discussed was the
need to ensure continuity of services and
trained staff by enhancing the sustainability of
programs. Noting the high turnover rate of
trained staff in programs, participants discussed
how to design projects that can be sustained
with community support and participation by
ensuring that they reflect the needs of people at
the grass roots. The importance of integrating
components that realistically answer
community needs was emphasized.
The workshop wound up with agreement
that awareness had been raised and a call to
demonstrate real achievements through
implementation at the grass roots.
JOICFP NEWS, August 1995
Japan
PoSIVA Funds from Japanese
Public Boost NGOs
McCOBA’s
Wheels Turning
Voluntary Aid (POSIVA) scheme administered
The Municipal Coordinating Committee for
by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunica
Overseas Bicycle Assistance (MCCOBA)
tions. The funds, collected from interest on
maintained its commitment to sending
special postal savings accounts held by the
reconditioned bicycles with spare parts to
public, are allocated by the ministry to
developing countries at its third general
Japanese-based NGOs implementing projects in meeting in Tokyo on May 16. The committee
developing countries in cooperation with local
approved funds and support for the donation
NGOs in respective countries.
scheme for the period of April 1995 - March
JOICFP was the fourth-biggest recipient of
1996 at the meeting. Shibuya City of Tokyo
funds allocated for the period of July 1995 was also welcomed as a new MCCOBA
June 1996. The funds will be used to support
member at the event.
activities in such areas as maternal and child
The body, composed of 15 local
health, family planning, women in develop
governments and JOICFP, approved a budget of
Representatives of NGOs including JOICFP
ment, education and training, nutrition and
over ¥48.571 million (US$545,000 at an
receive POSIVA funding.
environmental sanitation in Bangladesh, China, exchange rate of ¥89 to $1) for spare parts for
Ghana, Guatemala, Tanzania and Vietnam.
at least 3,900 bicycles and their shipping costs
The ministry received 305 applications for
JOICFP was allocated ¥63.017 million
to 17 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin
funding this year from 235 NGOs including
(US$708,000 at an exchange rate of ¥89 to $1)
America. The amount represents a commitment
Japanese and non-Japanese NGOs based in
on June 27 to support projects in six countries
of ¥1 million from each member local
from the Postal Savings for International
Japan. It approved 305 projects in 61 countries. government; ¥3.047 million from the Ministry
A total of ¥2.81 billion (US$31.57 million) was of Foreign Affairs; ¥3.6 million from the Tokyo
• allocated by the ministry.
metropolitan
•
By region, 20 countries in Africa received
government;
An NGO Perspective
• POSIVA funds, 18 in Asia, 10 in Latin America and ¥26.924
• and the Caribbean, six in the CIS, four in the
million from
• Middle East and three in Oceania.
the Japan
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The POSIVA scheme has continued to gain
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• shown keen interest in promoting the work of
Institute.
• NGOs in developing countries. Viewed as a
The
IPPF President Fred Sai
• trustworthy means of international assistance,
committee
hands over donated
fc • the scheme owes much of its success to the
expects to sur
bicycles in Tanzania.
• close collaboration it has achieved between
pass this year’s
• government and NGOs.
minimum target of 3,900 bicycles. Last year,
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JOICFP Senior Program Officer
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All NGOs receiving funding through the
MCCOBA sent 4,200 bicycles to developing
• Kiyoko Ikegami made a presentation on • scheme must regularly report to the Japanese
countries where they are used to assist
• women in development (WID) and
• embassy in respective countries to provide
community agents such as traditional birth
• reproductive rights and health to
• information on how the funds are being used in
attendants (TBAs), community-based
• participants of the International Seminar • the field to assist people at the grass roots.
distributors (CBDs) and health-care workers to
• on Women’s Development organized by • Such information flow not only contributes to
improve the way of life at the grass roots.
• the Institute for International
• fostering trust
• Cooperation of the Japan International
• for the scheme
J Cooperation Agency (JICA) on July 3.
• among the
• Ikegami spoke about WID activities from • Japanese
Japanese Live Longest
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• public, but
Japanese people again scored the highest life expectancy in the world in
• organization (NGO) and introduced
• helps deepen
1994, with the average life span for women rising to 82.98 years and men to
J JOICFP activities in the Latin American • understanding
76.57 years, according to recent figures from the Health and Welfare
• region. The JOICFP animated
• of the needs
Ministry. In 1993, the life span for women was 82.51 years and for men
J adolescent health education film Music
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was 76.25 years.
• for Two was shown to the 150
• situations of
Japanese women have held the world record for longevity for 10 years
• participants from 11 countries attending
J people in
and men for nine years.
• the Tokyo event.
• developing
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VOICE OF VOICES
By Chojiro Kunii
Towards Beijing
Six members of JOICFP will attend the UN
4th World Conference on Women to be held in
Beijing, China, in early September and the
NGO Forum. My hope is that they make the
most of this rare opportunity to share
experiences and information with participants
from other countries.
Four decades ago, I visited Europe for the
first time. I was deeply impressed by the
lifestyles I encountered in Sweden, Germany
and Great Britain at the time. Everything was
new and interesting to me. At the time, I was
living in a small rural town in northeastern
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Theme:
Date:
Venue:
Family Planning Association of
Tanzania (UMATI), UNFPA,
IPPF and JOICFP
Participants: Project director/project
coordinator and officer in charge of the IPimplementing countries of Ethiopia, The
Gambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia;
representatives from the selected countries of
Cameroon, Guinea (Conakry), Kenya,
Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
Togo and Uganda; and representatives of
international agencies (to be confirmed).
Note: Self-funded observers are welcome.
Sustainable community-based
distributors (CBDs) and com
munity-based service (CBS)
December 4 - 9,1995
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Yoshio Koike, UNFPA country director, Sierra
Leone, visited MCCOBA member cities Nerima
and Toshima on June 8 and 9, respectively.
- JOICFP Senior Program Officer Kiyoko
Ikegami and staff member Tetsuo Kato were in
Chile, Brazil and the U.S. from May 31 - June 16
to coordinate project evaluation.
- JOICFP Senior Program Officer Ryoichi
Suzuki was in Bangladesh as a member of a GII
project formulation mission from June 12 - 20.
- Florencia Roitstein, consultant, Reproductive
and Sexual Health Program, IPPF/WHR, visited
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-Dr. Hirofumi Ando, deputy executive director,
and Kyoichi Nakamura, information advisor,
Information and External Relations Division,
UNFPA, joined the press conference in Tokyo for
The State of World Population 1995 on July 5.
- Dr. Halfdan Mahler, secretary general, and
Mark Laskin, assistant secretary general, IPPF,
and Dr. Hirofumi Ando, deputy executive director,
UNFPA, were in Japan to attend the funeral
ceremony of former Japanese Prime Minister and
President of JOICFP Takeo Fukuda on July 7.
IPPF Names Briiggeman
Ingar Briiggeman will replace Dr. Halfdan
Mahler as secretary general of IPPF in
September. Current chair of the Development
Policy Forum of the German Foundation for
International Development, Berlin, Briiggem
has held increasingly responsible positions in
WHO, which she joined in 1966.
JOlCTtP 'Women's health andStatus Series
A New Animated Film
RAKHEE and MAUSEE
12 min., Color/English, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali
Education is a key to improving the health and
status of women. The process of change begins
with learning how to read and write. As women
use these skills to earn money, they gain the power
to make decisions for a better future.
RAKHEE AND MAUSEE is a joint Indian-Japanese
production and part of the women’s health and
status series of animated films. The theme is early
marriage and the story concerns 14-year-old
RAKHEE whose fate is changed by an independent
woman called MAUSEE.
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Sakura Motion Picture Co., Ltd.
Yoyogi Center Bldg., 57-1 Yoyogi 1-chome
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standard of health and the quality of life of
community people living in project areas. NGO
representatives attending the NGO Forum are
planning to make opportunities to visit IP areas
during their stay. JOICFP staff members in
charge of the project in China are going to
accompany this group. I hope that this field
visit is indeed a learning experience for these
participants and that they come away from the
conference inspired with new ideas.
Organizers:
5th African Regional Workshop
on the Integrated Family
Planning, Nutrition and Parasite
Control Project (PANFRICO V)
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Japan, so the trip was particularly impressive
and I was eager to learn as much as I could
about these different societies. I absorbed so
many new things like a sponge and the
experience broadened my perspective of life.
I hope that the JOICFP team has the same
kind of experience I had many years ago. The
conference is an important event for JOICFP
and I hope the team makes the most of it. The
conference will also give the staff an
opportunity to learn something about the China
of today and about its long history. In the past,
the people of this country endured considerable
suffering at the hands of countries of Europe,
the U.S. and Japan. I feel particularly deeply
about the pain caused by Japan.
As for present-day China, I am confident
that the Integrated Project (IP) initiated in the
country over 10 years ago has helped raise the
Several new appointments were approved at a combined meeting of JOICFP’s boards of
directors, counselors and councilors on June 23. The four people named as new directors were
Dr. Michio Hashimoto, Ryoichi Suzuki, Sumie Ishii and Hideyuki Takahashi. Takaaki Hara,
Takashi Onogawa, Yoshikazu Sayama and Hiroshi Taniguchi were named as new counselors.
Three of the new directors and two of the new counselors were drawn from JOICFP.
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