Starting in 2017, the Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) and the Forum of Arab Parliamentarians on Population and Development (FAPPD), with support from UNFPA Arab States Regional Office (ASRO), have organized a series of the Arab and Asian Parliamentarians’ Projects on Population and Development in Arab countries, which have seen significant progress in parliamentarians’ commitments to population and development issues and triggered successful developments in inter-regional/regional networking and partnerships.

Building on Nairobi Summit and strengthening inter-regional/regional networking and partnerships for concrete actions to address Nairobi Commitments at the National level, a pilot study that was conducted in the selected Asian and African Countries in the region Morocco and Palestine, Sri Lanka and Lao PDR to address challenges and gaps required for the implementation of the commitments in addition to the required recommendations "To accelerate The Promise"