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Child Friendly Cities Initiative

Child Friendly Cities Initiative. What is it?. An approach to local development that promotes awareness of children’s rights and increased commitment to their safeguard at local level. The Millennium Development Goals for children. 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

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Child Friendly Cities Initiative

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  1. Child Friendly Cities Initiative

  2. What is it? An approach to local development that promotes awareness of children’s rights and increased commitment to their safeguard at local level

  3. The Millennium Development Goalsfor children • 1.Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • 2.Achieve universal primary education • 3.Promote gender equality and empower women • 4.Reduce child mortality • 5.Improve maternal health • 6.Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • 7.Ensure environmental sustainability • 8.Develop a global partnership for development

  4. Action required at local level • strategies include “supporting government efforts to strengthen local governance in urban and rural areas and strengthen local government” • “the Goals should be “localized”— that is, translated into operational objectives for the level of government that will bear primary responsibility for their achievement.”

  5. UN Special Session on Children (2002) “Local governments and authorities can ensure that children are at the centre of agendas for development. By building on ongoing initiatives, such as child-friendly communities and cities without slums, mayors and local leaders can significantly improve the lives of children.”

  6. A Framework for Actionreflection of international consensus

  7. Nine building blocks 1.Participation by children and youth 2. A child friendly legal framework

  8. 3. A city-wide children’s rights strategy

  9. 4. A child friendly institutional framework 5. City policy impact assessment

  10. 6. A children’s budget 7. A regular State of the City’s Children Report

  11. 8. Making children’s rights known 9. Independent advocacy for children

  12. In-depth studies

  13. In-depth studies of country experiences

  14. Challenges 1. Unavailability of city based disaggregated data through national survey/surveillance systems. 2. It is challenging for the municipality to influence the services under the education or health due to centralized functioning system of the ministries.

  15. Challenges (continued) 3. Changing the perceptions and attitudes of staff at the municipality towards children’s participation and mainstreaming children’s rights in their approach and workplans. 4. Local technical capacities (organizations and experts) in the area of CFCI are limited.

  16. CFCI relevant to all types of communities

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