Commission on Population and Development, forty-eighth session (2015)

Date:

13 April 2015 to 17 April 2015

Members of the Commission

Bureau members

Ms. B茅n茅dicte Frankinet (Belgium) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Chair)
Mr. Mesbah Ansari Dogaheh (Iran, Islamic Republic of) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)
Ms. Lidija Bubanja (Serbia) - Eastern-European Group (Vice-Chair)
Mr. Rub茅n Armando Escalante Hasb煤n (El Salvador) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Vice-Chair)
Ms. Christine Kalamwina (Zambia) - African Group (Vice-Chair)

Decisions

Provisional agenda for the forty-ninth session of the Commission (
Draft report of the Commission on its forty-eighth session ()
Special themes for the Commission on Population and Development in 2016 and 2017 ()
Future organization and methods of work of the Commission on Population and Development² ()

²Amended orally at the closing:
(b)To request the Secretariat, in consultation with Member States and UNFPA, to prepare a note for consideration by the Commission at its forty-ninth session on ways and means to achieve the above-mentioned objectives.

List of delegations (advance unedited version) E/CN.9/2015/INF/1

Introductory statements and official documentation

Agenda item 1

Election of officers¹

¹ In accordance with Economic and Social Council decision 2005/213 of 31 March 2005, the Commission, immediately following the closure of the forty-eighth session, will hold the first meeting of its forty-ninth session for the sole purpose of electing a new Chair and other members of the Bureau, in accordance with rule 15 of the rules of procedure of the functional commissions of the Council

Agenda item 2

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters

Organization of work (

Provisional agenda for the forty-eighth session of the Commission

Report of the Bureau of the Commission on Population and Development on its intersessional meetings ()

Agenda item 3

Actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development

Statement

Report of the Secretary-General on integrating population issues into sustainable development, including in the post-2015 development agenda ()

Report of the Secretary-General on the monitoring of population programmes, focusing on integrating population issues into sustainable development, including in the post-2015 development agenda (

Report of the Secretary-General on the flow of financial resources for assisting in the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (

Keynote address

Population dynamics and sustainable development (Monday, 13 April 2015, 11.30 a.m.-1 p.m.) [] []

Country statements
	Cambodia	China (Ch)	Italy
	Germany	Nigeria	Peru
	Netherlands	Switzerland	United States of America
	South Africa
UN statements
	World Bank

Agenda item 4

General debate on national experience in population matters: realizing the future we want 鈥� integrating population issues into sustainable development, including in the post-2015 development agenda

Keynote address

Reproductive health, gender and sustainable development (Tuesday, 14 April 2015, 11.30 a.m.-1 p.m.) [] []

Panel

Panel discussion on Integrating population issues into sustainable development (Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.) []

Country statements (Available here)

UN and NGO/IGO statements (Available here)

Agenda item 5 General debate on the contribution of population and development issues to the theme of the annual ministerial review in 2015
Statement	Mr. Vladimir Drobnjak, Vice-President, Economic and Social Council
Country statements
	Mexico
IGO statements
	IOM
Agenda item 6 Programme implementation and future programme of work of the Secretariat in the field of population
Statement	Mr. John Wilmoth, Director, Population Division/DESA
Report of the Secretary-General on programme implementation and progress of work in the field of population in 2014: Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Draft programme of work of the Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, for the biennium 2016-2017 (E/CN.9/2015/CRP.1)
Country statements
	China	Italy	United States of America
Agenda item 7 Provisional agenda for the forty-ninth session of the Commission
Provisional agenda for the forty-ninth session of the Commission (
Agenda item 8 Adoption of the report of the Commission on its forty-eighth session