Dr. Sarah Buckley on the 20th Anniversary of the UN’s Year of the Family and the Global Prenatal Initiative

 

About the Video

Dr-Sarah-BuckleyDr. Sarah Buckley talks about the Global Prenatal Initiative as a part of the 20th anniversary of the UN’s Year of the Family in 2014.  Dr. Buckley is the author of the bestselling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices, published by Celestial Arts (US, 2009).

 

About the Global Prenatal Initiative and Nine Months to Save the World

Global Prenatal InitiativeThe successful OMAEP panel event during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20 has blossomed into The Global Prenatal Initiative (GPI). The GPI is gathering support from both civil society and governments and preparing events that will take place throughout 2014.

Major and grassroots events will take place around the globe during the 2014 United Nations 20th Anniversary of the International Year of Families (IYF). Events will focus on the major UN themes for this year:

– Confronting family poverty

– Ensuring work-family balance

– Advancing social integration

– Inter-generational solidarity

Read more about the Global Prenatal Initiative here.

 

About the UN’s 2014 20th Anniversary of the Year of the Family

UN-Logo-2The twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family (IYF)offers an opportunity to refocus on the role of families in development; take stock of recent trends in family policy development; share good practices in family policy making; review challenges faced by families worldwide and recommend solutions.

Owing to rapid socio-economic and demographic transformations, families find it more and more difficult to fulfil their numerous responsibilities. Many struggle to overcome poverty and adequately provide for the younger and older family members. It is also more and more difficult for them to reconcile work and family responsibilities and maintain the intergenerational bonds that sustained them in the past.
In response to these trends, the preparations for the twentieth anniversary of the IYF will focus on exploring family-oriented policies and strategies aiming mainly at confronting family poverty; ensuring work-family balance and advancing social integration and intergenerational solidarity. The preparatory process is to accelerate progress in family policy development; demonstrate its relevance for overall development efforts and draw attention to the role of different stakeholders in achieving these goals.
The preparations for the twentieth anniversary will include:
  • International and regional expert group meetings gathering family experts and practitioners to explore recent family trends; analyse family-oriented policies and programmes and review good practices in family policy making.
  • Research activities, including background papers on family poverty, work family balance and intergenerational solidarity.
  •  Exchange of good practices in family policy.
  • Observances of the International Days of Families focusing on the themes for the twentieth anniversary.
  • Side events at the Commission for Social Development.
  • Government, civil society, academic and private sector initiatives at the national level.
  • Findings and recommendations from these activities are to guide future action in effective family policy design, monitoring and implementation.
Governments, United Nations agencies and bodies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, research and academic institutions and the private sector are encouraged to play a supportive role in promoting the objectives of the twentieth anniversary for the benefit of families worldwide.
For more information contact Focal Point on the Family atkaczmarska@un.org.
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