The IAPPD is convinced that the population stabilisation programme will not succeed unless it is backed by a popular mass movement in favour of a general acceptance of the small family norm and it needs to be approached within a developmental frame-work that offers a well integrated package of health, education, employment, and social and environmental policies. Introduction of innovative mechanisms for decentralised planning and policy formulation is the need of the hour. For this purpose, it is obviously necessary to promote and also ensure well-informed participation of parliamentarians in local level developmental planning.

Indian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (IAPPD), a 46 years old national autonomous non-profitable organization founded by Late Shri Sat Paul Mittal, MP, in 1978, for the people's elected representatives from Panchayat to Parliament, irrespective of their party affiliations, is now actively working under the Chairmanship of Prof. P.J. Kurien, Former Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha, in the field of population stabilization programmes, in co-operation with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare/UNFPA/UNICEF and other UN Agencies.