How do we improve the lives of the nearly 3 billion individuals living on less than two dollars a day? How can we enable all individuals—male and female, young and old—to protect themselves from HIV? To save the lives of more than 500,000 women who die each year in childbirth? What will it...
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How do we improve the lives of the nearly 3 billion individuals living on less than two dollars a day? How can we enable all individuals—male and female, young and old—to protect themselves from HIV? To save the lives of more than 500,000 women who die each year in childbirth? What will it take to show young people living in poverty that they have a stake in development and a hope for the future?

For perhaps the first time in history, questions such as these are not simply rhetorical. They have answers: answers that go to the very heart of what it means to be a woman or a man, wealthy or poor.
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ACPD mobilizes public support for international population and development issues. A non-partisan organization, ACPD focuses on the inter-relationships between population growth and structure, the environment, over-consumption, poverty, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equity and...
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ACPD mobilizes public support for international population and development issues. A non-partisan organization, ACPD focuses on the inter-relationships between population growth and structure, the environment, over-consumption, poverty, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equity and equality, human rights, migration, economics, and other development issues.
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Through dialogue, education, advocacy and coalition building, ACPD is the only Canadian NGO that promotes the full implementation of the Programme of Action stemming from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

ACPD works with non-governmental...
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Through dialogue, education, advocacy and coalition building, ACPD is the only Canadian NGO that promotes the full implementation of the Programme of Action stemming from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

ACPD works with non-governmental organizations throughout the world that share its goals and principles to promote public policy discussion on population and development issues. ACPD plays an active role in international meetings and forums aimed at advancing the ICPD agenda.

Domestically, ACPD engages in various activities to encourage the Canadian government to meet its ICPD commitments, including:


meeting with decision-makers to increase understanding of, and commitment to population, reproductive health and development issues;

providing information on these issues;

increasing public awareness through publications, speeches, public forums and media activities; and,

developing policy and issue briefs.
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