The Caribbean Forum on Population Development is being held at the Royalton
Hotel for two days.
The forum is being held by the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Sub-
Regional Office for the Caribbean, in collaboration with the Government of
Antigua and Barbuda and ECLAC.
Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, Minister of Health, Sir Molwyn Joseph, and
Foreign Affairs Minister E. P. Chet Greene were among those persons in
attendance for the opening ceremony.
The Forum is being held as a way of analyzing and promoting action to address
key population issues affecting the subregion, through a review of progress in the
implementation of the Montevideo Consensus, the regional agenda for population,
ten years on from its adoption.The Forum will discuss emerging issues, and challenges, share lessons learned and
best practices, and agree on actions to accelerate implementation of the Consensus.
Participants at the forum are reviewing the Montevideo Consensus on Population
and Development in the Caribbean’s development. Provisions are being made for
the engagement of Governments, legislators, academia, youth leaders, and civil
society organizations in a discussion about the status of implementation,
opportunities, challenges, lessons learned, and best practices to hasten the
realization of the Nairobi Commitments from the ICPD25 Summit as well as the
Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development.
Particularly, the discussions will also focus on important issues like adolescent
pregnancy, Gender Based Violence (GBV), migration, and demographic resilience.
The goal is to build consensus on a Caribbean vision, develop an action plan to
accelerate the Montevideo Consensus’s implementation and endorse commitments
for the realization of the same.
