Goal: Encourage and enable children and youth to become actively involved in their cities
3 Main Objectives:
- Strengthen local governance for children
- Raise awareness of and promote child rights among adults and children
- Use strategic partnerships to engage all members of society in building a child-friendly environment
Strengthen local governance for children
- implementing a child-friendly legal framework
- assessing the situation of children
- developing a Strategy for Children with an allocated budget
- setting up a coordinating mechanism in local government to ensure priority is given to children’s issues
- assessing the impact of law, policy and practice on children
Priority areas include early childhood development, education, health, children with disabilities, child protection, poverty, migrant children, culture and sport.
Raise awareness of and promote child rights among adults and children
- listening to children’s views and taking them into consideration when decisions are made on issues that affect them
This element will include promoting child rights education through the UNICEF School Club Project that runs in 2,100 schools across the country.
Use strategic partnerships to engage all members of society in building a child-friendly environment
- building broad platforms for cooperation between the media, civil society and private sector
Private sector engagement will include setting up a Business Coalition for Children with members committing to adhere to the Children’s Rights and Business Principles and getting involved in local initiatives promoting child rights and wellbeing.
References:
https://childfriendlycities.org/poland/
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