Programmes Overview
PSN undertakes a range of activities to promote the wide-ranging benefits and cost-saving effects of family planning, with the aim of increasing investment in family planning programmes that respect and protect rights.
A cross section of our work is provided in this section.
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Climate change
Highlighting the links between population increase and climate change is as a key area of activity for PSN.
We staged a highly successful ministerial conference on the topic in March 2010 (the Climate Change Symposium), and are now providing the secretariat for the International Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA).
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Parliamentary Hearings
Since being involved in commissioning the 2007 parliamentary Hearings on the impact of population, PSN has worked with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population and Reproductive Health at Westminster.
We are also representing opportunities for such Hearings internationally.
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Model projects
PSN supports individual projects serve as good practice models for our advocacy work, demonstrating the links between environmental sustainability, family planning and wider health beefits.
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Research
PSN seeks to raise understanding of population issues in policy planning through targeted research initiatives, as outlined below:
Those outlined below aim to improve understanding of the dynamics of population growth in the 21st Century. It is hoped that findings from the research will help to remove barriers that inhibit debate and prevent action.