November 28, 2011
Sarah Lindsay

This week, leaders from government, civil society, and development partners will gather in Dakar, Senegal for the 2011 International Conference on Family Planning. The week-long meeting will cover a diverse range of topics from strengthening health systems to economic policies to environmental sustainability, truly expressing the wide reaching impact of family planning. While at the conference, MLI is co-sponsoring a high-level meeting on the demographic dividend, and will also be exploring many topics relevant in our five MLI countries including:
Family planning policy and advocacy:
Family planning can often be pushed to the back burner inside Ministries of Health. Advocates within the government are necessary to advance the family planning agenda and foster support for policies to make family planning more accessible. Dr. Bocar Daff, head of the Reproductive Health Division in Senegal and MLI partner, has been a catalyst behind his country’s push to expand family planning. With his team, Dr. Daff has been elevating the dialogue around reproductive health and family planning within the government while engaging partners to strategically address policy issues.
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