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Background
With initiatives from UNFPA, AFPPD was formed in 1981 at the Asian Conference of Parliamentarians on Population and Development held in Beijing. AFPPD membership and programmes have increased multi-fold since then. AFPPD currently has twenty-two National Committees and has full-time office support in Australia, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam.
AFPPD conducts regional and national seminars, conferences, and study visits as a means to help parliamentarians increase their level of knowledge, obtain more information on population and development, and enhance their involvement and motivation in the areas surrounding ICPD issues.
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AFPPD gives emphasis, for the most part, to national level activities including review of legislation, monitoring programme implementation, and advocacy at the constituency level. AFPPD also provides due importance to the participation and involvement of women parliamentarians and gender equality |
As per the decision of the AFPPD 1990 General Assembly in Bangkok, reconfirmed in Kuala Lumpur in 1993, the permanent secretariat was moved from New Delhi to Bangkok in 1991. AFPPD has an Executive Director and full time local and international support staff.
AFPPD was registered with the Department of Skills and Labour, Government of Thailand on the 20th of October 1994 as an international non-governmental organization.
