PIP: Through July 1999, the international development community will be reviewing progress made in achieving the goals of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The review process, dubbed "Cairo Plus Five," includes a NGO Forum and International Forum in the Netherlands in February, a meeting of the UN Commission on Population and Development in March, and a special session of the UN General Assembly in June-July. During the 1994 ICPD, delegates from 180 countries agreed to address rapid population growth by seeking to meet individuals' reproductive health and development needs and by affirming human rights. Key recommendations arising from the ICPD call for recognizing reproductive rights as human rights, empowering women, removing gender disparities in education, integrating family planning and other reproductive health care services, increasing funding, and strengthening public/private cooperation. It is imperative to tract the progress governments are making in implementing these goals. The Cairo Plus Five meetings will reaffirm the ICPD goals while identifying promising strategies and programs and sharing lessons learned. Funding to achieve the goals is several billion dollars short for the year 2000, and all parties must meet their commitments to ensure that a lack of political will does not compromise women's lives and health.