Good Practices and Innovations in Public Governance 2003-2011

Good Practices and InnovATIONS in Public Governance
at of the HPC including reproductive health, population and development, advocacy
and gender empowerment.
The vision of the HPC was to achieve a balance between population growth and
economic resources necessary to promote comprehensive and sustainable development.
In order to achieve its missions, the HPC implemented good governance mechanisms
to its own internal operation, including:
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• Restructuring the Higher Population Council to be composed of the three pillars
of society, namely government, private sector and NGO institutions;
• Integrated team work and actual partnership, cooperation and accountability; and
• Upholding the principles of transparency, accountability and efficiency.
By adopting policies to enhance rational reproductive behavior, family planning, rational
use of resources, women’s empowerment, equity and productivity in order to
increase per capita income, the HPC is on the path to achieve its mission.
The strategic goals of the HPC are as follows:
• Rationalize population growth through reproductive health and family planning
to achieve balance between population, economic resources on one hand
and the development requirements on the other;
• Reduce the negative impact of unchecked reproductive behavior on the family,
society, mother and children’s health;
• Address the unbalanced geographic distribution of population to achieve better
interaction between human, financial resources and land, through a balanced
regional dev. and effective relationship between “population and development”;
• Improve the living standards and quality of life of families by enhancing women’s
empowerment and their social role; and
• Strengthen HPC Arab and international relations by developing effective relations
with donor countries and agencies.
The HPC launched a Reproductive Health Action Plan for 2004-2007 “to contribute
to the national efforts of achieving sustainable development by balancing economic
resources and population growth through a reduction of the total fertility rate from
3.7 in the year 2002 to 2.1 in the year 2020”.
In order to succeed a number of stakeholders are closely involved:
• Governmental ministries (Ministries of Health, education, planning, labour,
Awqaf and Islamic affairs, social dev., finance). Government institutions (Department
of Statistics, Housing and Urban Development Cooperation, Civil Status
Dept., Industrial Cities Corporation, Vocational Training Corporation, higher
council for youth, higher council for information, Radio and TV Cooperation);