Public policy, advocacy and partnerships for child rights
The program Public policy, advocacy, and alliances for the Rights of Children includes the development of a strategy and an integrated approach in UNICEF’s activities with the objective of providing public policy recommendations and transferring experiences to local institutions based on UNICEF’s work. This area is based on strategic lines of action, which aim to mainstream the challenges throughout all the areas of work within the office. These strategic lines of action are:
- Local development, which aims to strengthen the institutional capacities of prefectures, municipal governments, and the levels of communal decision making, promoting the development of political and social platforms, which ensure the wellbeing of infants, children and adolescents, as well as the protection of their rights. It also seeks to promote local experiences of human development and raise them to the level of national public policies.
- Legal reforms, whose principal challenge is to contribute to the development of national legislation, under the child rights umbrella, promoting technical parliamentary capacity to legislate, to monitor and assign funds for infants, children and adolescents.
- Information, Communication and Social Mobilization, aims to guarantee access to information relevant to the rights of infants, children and adolescents; as well as generating communication processes for development that allow the improvement, strengthening, or changing of habits that promote the exercise of rights. At the same time, it looks to create processes that support advocacy for the management of public policy, which give priority to relevant themes.
- Monitoring and evaluation, which strives for the monitoring and follow-up of progress of results as established in the Program of Cooperation between the Government of Bolivia and UNICEF. This line of action promotes results-based management of public policies in favor of infants, children, and adolescents, and drives the development of a national system of monitoring and evaluation for the fulfillment of their rights.
