THE Executive Director of the National Population Council (NPC), Mrs Esther Yaa Apewokin, has underscored the need to effectively factor popula Stion into development planning, as well as tackle the goals on fertility reduction.
This, she said, required more commitment from officials of the council to develop pertinent modules to serve as a road map for repositioning family planning in the country.
Mrs Apewokin said this when she delivered an address at the opening ceremony of the annual review and planning meeting of the NPC in Ho.
She urged them to take stock in order to fashion out appropriate strategies to conform with national development plans and the existing interventions which were started in 2006.
In an address, the Principal Development Planning Officer of the Volta Regional Co-ordinating Council, Mr E.K.T. Kanfra, said the key policy intervention of the present national population policy was to promote the reproductive health status of citizens, with emphasis on adolescent reproductive health.
He said the pressures of modern living, vis-à-vis widespread poverty and insufficiency of social infrastructure, the waning of the role of the extended family as a source of social insurance, economic pressures on families and the upsurge in streetism should now be factored into national population management.
He stressed that the national population planning programme should not only exist but also remain functional, vibrant and effective, in view of the implications of the rate of population growth on social services such as health, education, housing, water and sanitation, electricity, food security and employment.
In a welcoming address, the Volta Regional Population Officer, Mr Edwin Darkey, called on participants to take the unique opportunity to share ideas and explore the Volta Region during the three-day meeting.
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