Focus area 1 Young child survival and development

Focus area 1 Young child survival and development

The Executive Director also highlighted the Accelerated Child Survival and Development (ACSD) programme as a model, noting the importance of an integrated approach to child survival.

Mr. Dhakal (Nepal) recalled that survival, protection, development and welfare of the children had been the primary goals of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and said that Nepal, a party to the Convention, was fully committed to protecting and promoting rights of children.

And down here, child survival, the percentage of children surviving childhood up to starting school 60 percent, 70 percent, 80 percent, 90, and almost 100 percent, as we have today in the wealthiest and healthiest countries.

UNICEF was urged to scale up such interventions as the Accelerated Child Survival and Development programme and to avoid vertical approaches.

At the beginning of 2005, India had adopted a policy of action for children, extending all rights to all children up to the age of 18 by encompassing child survival and development, child protection and child participation.

States Parties to the Covenant shall guarantee the basics necessary for the survival and development of the child and for his her protection from violence, abuse, exploitation, and deterioration of his her living and health conditions.

Efforts must be supported to enable the effective engagement of families and communities in all stages of children's survival, growth and development.

The Goals for child survival will not be met without substantial reductions in neonatal mortality and child undernutrition.

Targets include increasing the number of families using appropriate care practices and with access to the services and resources needed to ensure child survival, growth and development.

The Child Survival Partnership is another multi agency initiative aimed at providing a forum for coordinated action to address the major conditions that affect children's health.

This is why, in its policy for promoting childhood, the MASPFE has established the objective of fighting for the survival, development and protection of young children who are handicapped, poor or in difficult situations.

And they still have a child survival of only 70 to 80 percent, meaning that if you have six children born, there will be at least four who survive to the next generation.

On the draft CPD for Burkina Faso, speakers highlighted the high quality of the UNICEF programme, especially in the areas of child survival, child protection and girls' education.

However, in order to ensure that no child was left without a nationality, an exception was made if the child was born in Lebanese territory and the parents were unknown, or if a child was born out of wedlock and the father was unidentified.

Maximum child survival and development benefits are realized when water supply, sanitation and hygiene programmes are coordinated or integrated with other sectoral programmes.

The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) and the Accelerated Child Survival and Development (ACSD) initiatives have supported expanded coverage of high impact health and nutrition interventions to tackle major causes of child death.

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Eritrea, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, the United Republic of Tanzania, Togo and districts participating in the ACSD initiative have made rapid progress in coverage for young children and pregnant women.

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Examples of synergies are found in the IMCI and ACSD initiatives, in some obstetric care programmes and as described in paras. 63 86 below on immunization plus .

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The plan was organized into five focus areas (a) young child survival and development (b) basic education and gender equality (c) HIV AIDS and children (d) child protection and (e) first call for children in policies, laws and budgets.

(a) Focus area 1. Young child survival and development Support in regular, emergency and transitional situations for essential health, nutrition, water and sanitation programmes, and for young child and maternal care at the family, community, service provider and policy levels

Immunization is an effective vehicle for increasing the coverage of other child survival interventions, and this will be reflected in the new UNICEF health and nutrition strategy and the next MTSP for 2006 2009.

Existing high impact child survival interventions could, if implemented through efficient and effective strategies and targeted to reach those most in need of assistance, prevent a substantial proportion of current deaths.

Evidence confirms that it is possible to design high impact intervention packages that effectively improve child survival and development in very different contexts, depending on the relative burden of direct neonatal and post neonatal causes and associated malnutrition.

UNICEF will continue to support very actively the partnerships for child survival and maternal, newborn and child health which emerged during the previous MTSP period, and will contribute based on its particular areas of strength and experience.

To accelerate the process of implementing efforts to promote child survival in Guinea, USAID, through the Basics II Project, has established a national office to support the Ministry of Health in the areas of IMCI and EPI (Expanded Programme on Immunization).

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She highlighted water and sanitation as a strategy to support work in both child survival and girls' education, the focus being on creating separate sanitation facilities for girls and promoting hygiene education that can help spread behavioural change from schools to the homes.

The secretariat said that UNICEF currently was working with some 50 countries to support new or revised national ECD policies, including the ACSD initiative in West Africa.

UNICEF will also employ a situation based approach, meaning that the high impact child survival interventions will have as a primary target those countries, or geographical areas within countries, with high to very high child mortality rates.

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