DAWN’S PLATFORM FOR CAIRO+5, January 1999. Compiled and Written by Sonia Corrêa, DAWN’s former Research Coordinator, Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

This report has been designed as a mid-term product of the DAWN Cairo+5 policy research effort. It synthesizes the core findings of the national case studies undertaken within the analytical framework developed by DAWN for the Cairo+5 Conferences. It emphasizes progress observed between 1994 and 1998, but also identifies obstacles that, across the South, work to hinder the full accomplishment of committments adopted at the ICPD.

The strong and positive responses received from researchers and activists who undertook the case studies, and the quality of the research performed under extremely tight time contraints, were encouraging and truly gratifying.