The Foundation has organised state-level advocacy conferences in states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Maharashtra, providing a platform to academicians, population experts, social scientists, bureaucrats, politicians and government officials to share their expertise in relation to population, health and social development issues and various constraints being faced from time to time. The recommendations that emerged were submitted to the respective state governments for consideration. These also helped the Foundation to focus its projects/programmes in these states/districts.

Recently, the Foundation organised a state-level conference in Bihar on December 14-15, 2002 and will focus its attention on Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa in the coming years.

District level workshops on Population Stabilisation

As follow up of State-level Conferences held in Uttaranchal and Maharashtra in the year 2001, district level workshops were organised in these states.

In Uttaranchal, one planning workshop at Dehradun and 13 district level workshops were organised. Out of 13 workshops, seven district level workshops were organised in collaboration with U.P. Voluntary Health Association (UPVHA) in the districts of Haridwar, Pithoragarh, Champawat, Udhamsingh Nagar, Nainital, Almora, and Bageshwar. The remaining six workshops were Organised in collaboration with Himalayan Jan Kalyan Evam Bal Vikas Samiti, Rudraprayag in the districts of Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Pauri, Tehri, Dehradun and Uttarkashi.

In the state of Maharashtra, eight district level workshops were organised in collaboration with Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme (CASP) in Aurangabad, Pune, Amravati, Nagpur, Nasik, Konkan, Parbhani and Gadchiroli districts. The main objectives of organising these workshops are to discuss the status of the districts with respect to population stabilisation, health and other developmental issues.