Strategies
Strategies
The first strategy of the programme is based on the life-cycle approach and will support three high-level key results. First, during early childhood, children aged 0-5 years are fully registered, nourished and healthy and have developed their physical, cognitive and emotional capacities in a protective and culturally sensitive environment. Second, throughout middle childhood, children aged 6-13 are enrolled in and complete quality, inclusive and culturally sensitive primary education; are healthy and nourished; are physically and emotionally protected; and participate in their own development while reaffirming their identity through intra and intercultural dialogues . Third, during adolescence, children aged 12-18 are empowered with life skills; possess competencies and access opportunities that enable them to claim their rights; are protected from violence, mistreatment and exploitation; and live in healthy environments conducive to intercultural citizenship. This strategy calls for integration and for ensuring that children are at the centre of all interventions and that the best interests of children are considered in all decisions that affect children´s lives.
The second strategy focuses on the capacity-building of communities , families and individuals, as well as institutions. This includes strengthening practices regarding social oversight, hygiene, health, nutrition, education, and the social upbringing and treatment of children, emphasizing the strengthening of existing community management structures. The strategy will also promote methodologies that will ensure institutional continuity and sustainability in light of the high turnover of public officials, and will promote risk management to reduce levels of vulnerability during emergencies and disasters, with priority given to children´s issues.
The third strategy is reduction of gender, demographic and geographic disparities, especially those affecting indigenous populations, with a focus on the areas identified by the IDINA index as having the lowest levels of child rights fulfillment. The strategy will cover at least 42 rural municipalities as needed within the context of the Plan´s Communities in Solidarity and Reciprocal Communities initiatives. Interventions will be based on vulnerability indicators, the assessment of minimum management capacities required to develop local and national policies, and a commitment to a five-year programming cycle to ensure programmatic sustainability. In close coordination with the Government, the strategy will promote demonstration/model sites with the potential of quickly reaching national scale.
Complementary strategies include advocacy for children´s rights to stimulate investment in children´s issues and the development and implementation of public policies and programmes to achieve results for children at national and local levels, with a focus on rights, gender and interculturalism; communication for social movilization to promote greater awareness of children´s rights; effective child and adolescent participation in all decision-making that concerns them; and knowledge management to promote greater demand for the fulfillment of child rights.
Cross cutting issues as gender and intercultural acceptance will include empowering women and indigenous groups in the decision-making process, ensuring that their rights are respected by the State; eliminating gender-based violence; and promoting a non-stereotyped image of children and women in different cultural contexts.
