Subject: Nairobi Summit Global Commitments for your feed-back
From: Lela Bakradze <[email-masked]>
To: Ekaterine Tikaradze <[email-masked]>
Cc: Zaza Bokhua <[email-masked]>, Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>, Tina Khardziani <[email-masked]>, George Mataradze <[email-masked]>, Natalia Zakareishvili <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:17:04 +0000

Dearest
Partners,

First
of all, please let me thank you for your continuous support and collaboration.

As
you are aware, the Governments of the Republic of Kenya and the Kingdom of
Denmark, together with UNFPA are convening the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25: Accelerating
the Promise, which will take place from 12 to 14 November 2019 in Nairobi, Republic of Kenya. This Summit
marks the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the landmark Programme
of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
by 179 governments and other stakeholders in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. The Summit,
convened at the highest level, will bring together Member States of the United
Nations, parliamentarians, local governments and authorities, international financial
institutions, inter-governmental organizations, private sector partners and
academia. It intends to galvanize change and mobilize leadership in addressing
persistent and emerging challenges related to the ICPD Programme of Action. The
Summit will also mobilize political and financial momentum to advance the ICPD
agenda, as indispensable in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, in particular around harnessing the demographic dividend, reducing
(at a minimum) preventable maternal and child mortality, the unmet need for
family planning and eliminating violence and harmful practices against women
and girls.

The
Summit will also offer an inclusive platform for Member States and a broad range
of other stakeholders to support a set
of global commitments that would collectively advance the ICPD agenda.
These global commitments will be complemented by concrete and specific national commitments.

A
set of global commitments were developed as a result of an elaborate process of
consultations, within and among different constituencies, and reflects actions that
would, collectively, advance the ICPD agenda and would finish the unfinished
business, and also are directly linked to the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs. They
are by no means final, but a first attempt to get a global dialogue going ahead
of the Summit. But, it also gives a frame for national consultations with
government counterparts and with the different constituencies and stakeholders,
and it provides the first basis for countries and partners to start thinking
about their own specific commitments towards these global commitments.
At the Summit, it is expected that countries and partners will present their
own commitments, ideally in line with the global commitments, on how they will
advance the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action. This way, the
global commitments, which are broad and aspirational in nature, will drive a
national agenda to fulfill the promise of the ICPD.

It
is important to stress that 'endorsing' the global commitments on the part of
government and stakeholders is entirely voluntary, and thus not constitute a
new set of obligations and reporting requirements. The set of global
commitments is mostly derived directly
from Agenda 2030 and the SDGs, as well as the ICPD Programme of Action, and
therefore have already been agreed to by
governments, to which they voluntarily report through ECOSOC.

With
this writing I would like to share these global
commitments for your feed-back and would be grateful to receive it by the
end of August.

We would
like to encourage our partners to use the draft Nairobi Commitments document as
the basis for developing concrete national commitments and proposed actions to
be presented by government in the Nairobi Summit, and stand ready to assist in
facilitating this important process in September.

With
repeated thanks and best regards,

Lela

Ms. Lela Bakradze

Acting Head of Office

UNFPA Country Office in Georgia
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