Challenges of demography discussed
By Express News
Service | Published: 15th January 2017 03:25
AM |
BHUBANESWAR: International Institute for Population Sciences
(IIPS), Mumbai in collaboration with Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for
Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar organised a three-day national seminar
on 'Population and Health in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs)' that ended on Friday. Head of Population Research Centre, Institute for
Social and Economic Change (ISEC) in Bangalore Prof KS James highlighted three
major challenges facing the demographers in the country including data
administering, creating good quality data and understanding the data in right
perspective.
Prof MM Islam from University of Dhaka suggested for a
collaborative effort by the South Asian countries towards addressing the SDGs.
He also stressed on the need to ensure sustained flow of finance from foreign
donors besides exploring the causes of failure of most countries in attaining
the millennium development goals.
The three-day seminar addressed 20 broad themes on
development scenario concerning the SDGs such as measurement of SDG indicators,
gender issues, poverty, food security, nutrition, maternal and child health,
urbanisat i o n , p o p u l ation and migration. Prof RB Kafle of Nepal pointed
out that academicians and researchers being a part of the bigger group of
stakeholders need to put across issues and experiences to the political
leadership in bringing about better policies. Speaking on the occasion, Prof F
Ram emphasised on use of modern technology to improve quality of data. There
has been a positive change in terms of dissemination of data in the country in
recent times, he said. Among others, NCDS director Prof Srijit Mishra and Prof Sanjay
Kumar Mohanty also spoke.
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