Family planning training starts

Family planning training starts

JAKARTA: A two-week training course on empowering women in
reproductive health and family planning started on Monday at the
National Family Planning Board (BKKBN) office in Jakarta.

The training, called Partners Global Leadership Program with
Special Focus on Women Empowerment in Reproductive Health/Family
Planning Program, is being organized by BKKBN and the Secretariat
of Partners in Population and Development: A South-South
Initiative.

Over the next two weeks, participants from Indonesia,
Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines
and Thailand will talk about issues related to reproductive
health, family planning, women's issues and share with each other
experiences in implementing family planning in each country.

BKKBN secretary Lalu Sudarmadi, who officially opened the
course, said that such cooperation among developing countries was
more effective than that with developed countries due to the
similarities among developing countries. --JP