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Folkm~ngdens utveckling och des konsekvenser. Representant f6r riksplaneringen i Sverige, P.C. Matthiessen: Demografiska problem i f6rbindelse med en befolkningstabilisering i Norden, A. Str6mmer: Avfolkingen i uomraden och dess inverkan pa den sociale milj6n och utvecklingspolitiken, J. Taurianen: Landsbygdens avfolkning och dess inverkan pa familjen och indivien. 20 June 1973 Free session. A NEW I N T E R N A T I O N A L
COMMITTEE
The INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR APPLIED RESEARCH IN POPULATION is being established by the POPULATION COUNCIL WITH THE FINANCIAL HELP OF THE FORD FOUNDATION ($150,000). The objective of this international committee is to speed up testing of family planning programme innovations so that they may be either encouraged or rejected more rapidly than is now the case. The Committee will consist of nine or ten leaders of national population programmes in developing countries. They will monitor promising experiments and decide which warrant new or continuing study. The group will complement the Council's International Committee for Contraceptive Research, which evaluates and tests new birth control products. POPULATION INFORMATION PROGRAM BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATION PROJECT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
A new population information programme In order to insure a rapid diffusion of data and inforraation on fertility control research and family planning/population programs throughout the developing world, the Agency for International Development is supporting a Population Information Program administered through the Biological Sciences Communication Project of the George Washington University Medical Center. The Population Information Program, under thc direction of Dr. Phyllis Piotrow, will publish and distribute to interested officials and key people in the developing countries accurate, objective, up-to-date, and relevant information about research and program findings on a systematic continuing basis and in a standardized format. Copies of the various reports, publications, summaries, bibliographies and the like will be available to other A.I.D. contractors, grantees, and collaborators on request. An extensive overseas mailing list will be prepared, broken down into various
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categories. Co-operative use of the format and mailing lists developed by the program may be especially useful to disseminate widely the results of specific population projects undertaken by individual researchers or organisations not otherwise active in the population field. For further information please write directly to: Dr. Phyllis T. Piotrow Population Information Program Biological Sciences Communication Project 2001 S Street N.W. Washington D.C. 20009 U.S.A. U. S. -
UNESCO POPULATION PROGRAM
The two-year program will be guided by a special Population Task Force within the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO. Co-chairmen who will direct the effort are Dr. J. Mayone Stycos, Professor and Chairman, Department of Sociology, and Director of the International Population Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and Dr. Roger Revelle, Director of the Center for Population Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. John Wood, a former consultant to both the Population Crisis Committee and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, has been named Executive Secretary of the Task Force. Funded by a grant from the General Service Foundation of St. Paul, Minnesota, the program will be in support of the world population programs of UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. ECOSOC ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR 1974 WORLD POPULATION YEAR A majority of the projects submitted by United Nation's agencies and specialized organizations for the 1974 World Population Year have already been approved by the UN Fund for Population Activities. Significant progress has also been made in the establishment of global, regional and interregional information programs to further the goals of the year. As is apparent from a brief list of approved projects, communication and educational activities have been strongly emphasized, with geographic interest centered on the developing world. According to the ECOSOC Population Commission, (UN/Ecosoc-E/5224, 1972) the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will intensify its existing information work related to population and will develop new activities to carry population messages through publications, radio and visual projects to audiences in developing countries. The International Labour Organization (ILO), like the other specialized agencies, is also preparing a program consistent with its mandate concerning population. Projects will be designed to reach labor groups around the world.
