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Workshop to Discuss National Children’s Policy The National Council for Children’s Services (NCCS) has organized a one day consultative workshop on the development of a National Children Policy to be held at the Kenya Institute of Education on 13th September 2007. The workshop will bring together stakeholders in the children sector including children. Children to Participate in WFC + 5 Review Process The National Council for Children Services (NCCS) convened a meeting on 6th September 2007 for organizations working with children, to mobilize resources for ensuring children’s participation in the World Fit for Children + 5 review process taking place this year. The government has already submitted to the UN General Assembly, a report on the progress towards the World Fit for Children Goals, a declaration adopted by World Leaders during the May 2002 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children held in New York, USA. A commemorative plenary meeting, as a follow-up to the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) for Children, is scheduled to take place on 11th – 12th December 2007 in New York, to assess outcome and progress made in implementing the WFC goals, five years after its adoption. The forum will bring together UN member states representatives, NGOs and children representatives to review progress in implementation of the World Fit for Children Goals. The meeting at NCCS deliberated on mobilizing children to regional forums where they will develop a common position on the kind of world they would like to live in for presentation at the December meeting. Workshop on Child Participation Planned Save the Children East and Southern African office plans to hold a three-days workshop on Child Participation from 13th – 16th September 2007 for sixty children and young people from Save the Children programs across Africa. The workshop will be held in Nairobi. A parallel workshop on child participation and child rights for accompanying adults is also scheduled to take place. The aim of the workshop is to give children and young people an opportunity to exchange experiences and understand the issues affecting children. The workshop will also come up with ways that children could influence people in power and how children could be involved in decision making structures. For more information, contact [email protected] Women Won’t Wait Campaign Launched The Women Won’t Wait Campaign was launched on 30th August. The campaign, led by a Coalition Committee composed of organizations working in the HIV/AIDS and women’s rights sectors, seeks to address the intersection between violence against women and girls, and HIV/AIDS. This was based on a recent study conducted by Action Aid International Kenya which established that gender based violence, particularly sexual violence, leaves the women and girls more vulnerable to acquiring HIV/AIDS than men. The study also found that there is no clear national policy framework that addresses gender based violence and specifically its link to HIV/AIDS. Kenyan Appointed to NGO Advisory Council Violence against Children Mr. Gilbert Onyango, the Senior Programme Officer and Acting Deputy Director at The CRADLE has been elected to represent the Eastern and Southern Africa Region in the NGO Advisory Council. This was announced by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF). The Council was formed to ensure the involvement of NGOs and CSOs in the just concluded UN Study on Violence Against Children. The next process seeks to implement recommendations that came out of the study. It is for this reason that there was a process to nominate and elect an individual/organization to represent East and Southern Africa in the new NGO Advisory Council which will have 18 members, nine being regional representatives, from national or regional NGOs and nine international members selected from international NGOs. The mandate of the NGO Advisory Council is:- For more information, visit the ACPF website www.africanchild.org or Mr. Onyango on email [email protected] Re-Location of USK Head Offices Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) have re-located their head office from DELTA House along Landhies/Jogoo road, to Arnold Plaza Westlands along Woodvale Grove. The office is on the 5th floor while the Fair Trade shop is on the ground floor. The new telephone numbers are 4454280/4454281. The email address remains the same [email protected] and postal address 40417 – 00100, Nairobi.
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For more information contact NCCS on email [email protected]
For more information contact [email protected]
i. To encourage and maintain NGO involvement at national, regional and international levels in follow-up advocacy with governments, UN agencies and other for full implementation of the UN Study on Violence against Children recommendations.
ii. To advocate for a Special Representative to the Secretary General on Violence Against Children, and to work withy the Special Representative when appointed.
iii. To identify and transmit important information regarding violence against children from the field level to the Special Representative and other appropriate UN bodies.
iv. To work with the Independent Expert and the Inter-Agency Working group, particularly in identifying key priorities for the working group and its members and developing follow-up activities and strategies to ensure effective implementation of the Study’s recommendations.
v. To use and strengthen existing information channels/mechanisms (e.g. CRIN, NGO Group mailing lists, etc) to inform the child rights NGO community regarding the follow-up of the UN Study on Violence against Children and its implementation.
vi. To be strongly and systematically connected to the proposed Youth Council in order to support continued and increased participation of children in follow-up
vii. To participate in monitoring implementation of the Study’s recommendations by member states.