Child Friendly Cities Initiative

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Child Friendly Cities Initiative
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What is it?

• An approach to local development that
  promotes awareness of childrens rights and
  increased commitment to their safeguard at local
  level

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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

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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.

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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.

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A Framework for Actionreflection of
international consensus
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Nine building blocks

• 1. Participation by children and youth

2. A child friendly legal framework
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• 3. A city-wide childrens rights strategy

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4. A child friendly institutional framework
5. City policy impact assessment
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• 6. A childrens budget

7. A regular State of the Citys Children Report
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• 8. Making childrens rights known

9. Independent advocacy for children
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In-depth studies
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In-depth studies of country experiences
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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.

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

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CFCI relevant to all types of communities