In early 2014, the Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) undertook two critical interconnected activities, a branding exercise and the establishment of six “headline results”3 for South Asia, in cooperation with Country Offices (COs) and regional partner organizations. The South Asia headline results acknowledge the criticality of inter-sectoral development programmes with implementation strategies, demanding rigorous evidence generation and utilization, within and across countries. South Asia commemorated 25 year of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in South Asia, by launching regional report ‘Improving Children’s lives, Transforming the Future – 25 years of child rights in South Asia’. The report looks at how the Convention has changed the lives of children over the last 25 years in the eight countries of South Asia, one of the fastest growing regions in the world. It argues that fulfilling children’s rights equitably is crucial to the region’s future and highlights areas where significant gaps still remain: gender, child protection, health,nutrition, education and sanitation. The knowledge, partnerships convened by ROSA through the Regional Conference on: Stop Stunting:Improving Child Feeding, Women’s Nutrition and Household Sanitation in South Asia, marked a significant step forward in positioning UNICEF as a convener and knowledge leader for Maternal and Child Nutrition in South Asia and beyond. There is increased momentum to meet the related headline result: The number of stunted children in South Asia is reduced by 12 million between 2014 and 2017.The appointment of two Regional Goodwill Ambassadors (GWA) kept child deprivation issues in public and policy glare, together with huge followership and phenomenal traffic on social media.
#RIGHTS #CHILDRIGHTS #CHILDWELFARE
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Publisher:
UNICEF
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Type / Script:
Progress Report
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Keywords:
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, EMERGENCY RELIEF, EQUITY, ETHICS, HEALTH, HEALTH AID, AIDS, CHILD NUTRITION INFANT NUTRITION, NUTRITION, MATERNAL NUTRITION, INFANT FEEDING, CHILD FEEDING, EDUCATION, ADULT EDUCATION, PRIMARY EDUCATION, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CHILD WLFARE, GENDER, GENDER EQUALITY, SANITATION.
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Thematic Group:
UNICEF
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Children Fund
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Thesaurus:
14.05.04
- Welfare And Social Services
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