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The Human Development Network Health, Nutrition, and Population Series

Adapting to Change

Revised Edition

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This note builds on the Banks Health, Nutrition, and Population Sector Strategy, which was discussed by the Banks Executive Board and management in 1997. The Board requested further discussion of how the principles and recommendations of the HNP strategy would be applied in the Banks work on population and reproductive health. This report addresses this request, with a particular focus on how the Bank is responding to the new approaches to population called for by the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and to the changing demographic realities in borrower countries on which ICPD is based. A second generation HNP strategy will take stock of implementation progress and implications for going forward, including resource requirements.

This note is written for two audiences. As was the case for the HNP sector strategy, the first audience is the Banks Executive Directors, management, and staff. The second, once the internal need is met, is external: the countries and partners with whom the Bank works.

The note was prepared by a team of Bank staff working in the population and reproductive health fields under the guidance of the HNP Sector Board. There was extensive consultation with members of the Banks HNP family during the drafting process, and with others inside and outside the Bank once the initial draft was completed. Members of the Banks HNP External Advisory Committee reviewed drafts of the note and provided valuable guidance during their March and October 1998 meetings. The note was discussed by the Banks Board Committee on Development Effectiveness in March 1999 and again in February 2000.

Unlike the education and HNP sector strategies, this note is not a full strategy. Rather, it provides a fuller explanation of how the recommendations of those strategies will be applied in the Banks work in population and reproductive health. The note also presents a strategy matrix summarizing how this work is to be done. Specific attention is given to ways of bringing a population perspective into Country Assistance Strategies and other key strategic documents. While the note draws selectively on regional views and evidence, it does not address all of the regional and country-specific issues that would be required at those levels.

The note is not a policy, research, or best-practice paper. In addition to the HNP sector strategy, it also draws on earlier Bank work in population and reproductive health, including Population and Development: Implications for the World Bank