New York - Angola’s 2024-2028 Programme at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) provides for more children and their families to have access to quality, inclusive and gender-sensitive basic services, states a press release reached ANGOP on Thursday (07).
The programme was approved on Wednesday by the UNICEF Executive Board at a meeting held in New York.
The programme also defines better access to social and child protection systems, for the full fulfillment of their rights, including in humanitarian emergencies.
According to the source, the programme is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2024-2028, contributing to all four outcomes: people, peace, prosperity and planet.
The vision is based on five result areas: health and nutrition, education, child protection, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), social policy and social protection, addressing the constraints that perpetuate deprivation.
Speaking at the UNICEF Executive Council session, Angola's permanent representative to the United Nations, ambassador Francisco José da Cruz said that the National Programme is the result of a constructive and participatory process in which the Government and other key stakeholders played an active role.
In his speech, he said that the programme is anchored in Angola's development priorities reflected on the National Development Plan 2023-2027, which gives priority to development of human capital, as well as in the 2050-Agenda, which supports Angola's long-term objective of transforming its young population into a “demographic dividend”.
The diplomat highlighted that the Angolan legislative framework defines rules and legal principles on the protection and integral development of children,
reinforces and harmonises legal and institutional instruments to guarantee children's rights, as defined in the Constitution, in the Convention on the Rights of Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. ART/TED
