Mindful of the various constraints. Trinidad and Tobago. The Hague Forum.

Recognizing the linkages between population and development, and the need for an integrated approach to development, the government of Trinidad and Tobago in 1989 reformulated the Population Council of Trinidad and Tobago with the mandate to design and implement an explicit population-influencing policy for the country. The draft population policy, developed before the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), was revised following the ICPD to accommodate the recommendations of the Cairo Plan of Action. Efforts were made to sensitize government planners from sector ministries to the need to incorporate population into the planning process. Procedures are now being adopted which will enable the Population Council to review the government's medium-term plan before it is finalized to ensure that the programs of sector ministries pay enough attention to population. Population growth, teen pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, return migration, and population aging are among the issues discussed.