IFPD

  • indien proverb
    If you educate a man,
    You educate one person

    If you educate a woman,
    You educate a whole family.

    Indian Proverb

  • Fight against poverty

    Every day 1,000 women die giving life - one woman every 90 seconds; 99% of these deaths occur in the developing world.

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    Women perform 66% of the world’s work, produce 50% of the food - but earn 10 percent of the income.

  • International Foundation for  Population and Development

    Women represent 70% of the world's poor and two thirds of the world's 776 million illiterate adults.

  • Promote education

    IFPD promotes the health, education and empowerment of women in developing countries by providing them with effective means to fight poverty and improve their own and their children's living conditions in a sustainable way.

Home ACTIVITIES

Innovation in India

This unique programme partners international executives with their Indian business partners and community leaders to develop new, sustainable and scalable business models at the Base of the Pyramid, which improve the livelihoods of local communities.

IFPD collaborates with Pepal on this programme.
The next Innovation in India seminar is planned for the beginning of 2012. Detailed information will follow.

Advocacy in Switzerland

In collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Office in Geneva, IFPD organised various events and campaigns to advocate for population and development issues among the general public in Switzerland.

Some of these activities are mentioned under Archives.

Advocacy is also an integral part of IFPD's fundraising schemes aimed at the financing of its field projects.