The 28th International Population Conference (IPC) of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) officially kicked off in Cape Town, South Africa on Sunday, 29 October 2017, and will go on until Friday, 4 November 2017. The conference is held every four years, and this marks the first time it’s being
Tamanda Chimombo was 12 years old when her uncle married her off against her will. Fortunately for Tamanda, with family and community support, she was able to escape the marriage and return to school. Now she is pursuing her bachelors’ degree at St. John the Baptist University. Tamanda has a message for young girls
On Friday, 27 October 2017, the Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability, and Social Welfare with support from AFIDEP will hold a Gender Policy Dialogue aimed at catalysing and strengthening the ongoing efforts to end child marriages in Malawi. The Dialogue will identify and discuss priority actions that we need to take as a country
The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures and Sheffield Institute for International Development are co-hosting a special guest lecture by Sir Peter Gluckman, Chair, International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) and Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand. The lecture shall be held on 19 October 2017 at Lecture Theatre 7, The
On 17 October 2017, the Kenya Office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the National Council for Population and Development (NCPD) in collaboration with the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) and other stakeholders in population and development convened at a forum in Nairobi to launch the 2017 State of World Population
AFIDEP and M&C Saatchi are hosting a workshop on communicating the demographic dividend in Dar es Salaam Tanzania from 4 to 5 October 2017. The workshop is part of a project that seeks to recruit key influencers communicating and advocating on issues related to one or more of the four pillars of the demographic
