Protect my future; Why Child protection Matters?
By: Emily Delap, Head of Policy, Family for Every Children, April 15, 2013
This inter-agency paper is the
culmination of a series on the links between child protection and major
development goals, designed to feed into the thematic debates around the
post-2015 development framework.
The
alarming impacts of child protection failures are likely to grow in
significance unless something is done urgently. Global trends such as
climate change, migration and urbanisation are all increasing children’s
vulnerability and governments are not investing enough resources in
building and maintaining comprehensive child protection
systems. Children around the world want more support to enable them to
grow up free from violence, and within caring, safe families.
It is therefore is essential that governments, UN agencies and other actors engaged in the design of the framework that will replace the current Millennium Development Goals in 2015:
1. Include a goal on child protection. For example:
It is therefore is essential that governments, UN agencies and other actors engaged in the design of the framework that will replace the current Millennium Development Goals in 2015:
1. Include a goal on child protection. For example:
All
children live a life free from all forms of violence, are protected in
conflicts and disasters, and thrive in a safe family environment
2. Listen
to the voices of children, including vulnerable and commonly excluded
groups such as those without adequate care and protection, in debates
around the design of the post 2015 development framework and in the
implementation and monitoring of this framework.
3. Promote
the equitable achievement of all other goals included in the post 2015
development framework through assessing progress within commonly
excluded and discriminated against groups, including children without
adequate care and protection.
Read other papers in this inter-agency series, written for the UN's thematic consultations on the post-MDG framework:
• The links between child protection and equity
• The links between child protection and health and survival
• The links between child protection and good governance
• The links between child protection and population dynamics
• The links between child protection and disasters, conflict and fragility
• The links between child protection and equity
• The links between child protection and health and survival
• The links between child protection and good governance
• The links between child protection and population dynamics
• The links between child protection and disasters, conflict and fragility
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