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PRIORITYMEASURE4
“Ensure full integration of population dynamics into sustainable development planning, sectoral policies and public policies and programmes in general
―in particular in development and land-use planning― at national and subnational levels, drawing on sociodemographic knowledge
and informationand harnessing technological advances.”
Possible lines of action
1. Develop a national plan using this guide for implementation of theMontevideoConsensus on Population andDevelopment in order to
ensure integration of population issues into public policies and planning so as to achieve sustainable development with equality and
respect for human rights; 2. Develop long-term forecasts showing the impact of population dynamics on economies; 3. Promote the
production, dissemination and use of socioeconomic statistics disaggregated by population group, for example women, older persons,
adolescents, and indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants; 4. Strengthen the national statistics system, the civil registry, censuses and
other sociodemographic information systems; 5. Strengthen national capacities for handling population and development issues;
6. Prepare a national plan for implementing the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development; 7. Produce the information
needed to evaluate the economic impact of changes in the age structure (for example through the system ofNational TransferAccounts).
Targets
1. Population dynamics are fully incorporated into sustainable development planning, sectoral policies and public policies and
programmes in general.
Tentative indicators
1. National plan for implementing theMontevideo Consensus on Population and Development to be in place before the third session of
the Regional Conference on Population andDevelopment; 2. Long-term forecasts of the sectoral impacts (pensions, health, education) of
population dynamics, with themost detailed geographical disaggregation possible; 3. Socioeconomic statistics in hand, disaggregated by
population groups that are especially relevant to policymaking and sensitive to demographic changes, for examplewomen, older persons,
adolescents and indigenous peoples.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
Comments
This measure is complementary to PM 86 and PM 94 on inclusion of special population dynamics for indigenous peoples and for
Afro-descendants, respectively.
