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The situation of children and women in Guinea-Bissau remains critical. Economic performance tends to fluctuate with the performance of the agriculture sector, the largest sector of the economy. This severely affects social services, particularly health and education.

UNICEF and the Government have decided to include early childhood as a cross-cutting issue of the programme of cooperation. The country programme seeks to facilitate an increasing recognition of children’s rights. Efforts are being directed at setting up the necessary mechanisms and strengthening the government’s capacity to ensure full implementation of Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Furthermore, activities undertaken through the country programme aim to contribute to poverty alleviation and support other Millenium Development Goals priorities.

UNICEF priorities

UNICEF's objectives are to:

• Reduce infant and under-five mortality rates and the maternal mortality ratio
• Improve access to quality schooling, particularly for girls
• Ensure preparedness for and an adequate response to emergencies

UNICEF focuses on the promotion of children’s rights by contributing to the development of legal frameworks and mechanisms to ensure the protection of children and adolescents. Birth registration campaigns are pursued. Women's and youth associations are supported and community organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as traditional and religious leaders, are involved in the process of building institutional capacity for the better protection of children and adolescents. Basic information and services are also provided to adolescents in areas such as disease prevention and particularly HIV/AIDS awareness and control, reproductive health and prevention of drug abuse. Moreover, communities receive training and sensitization on emergencies and conflict management.

The primary health care (PHC) programme aims to reinforce and revitalize the PHC system. This, along with the opportunities offered by the polio eradication campaign, will create a favourable environment to ensure sustained immunization services, vitamin A supplementation and malaria control, with an emphasis on the use of impregnated bednets. Priority interventions include: HIV/AIDS prevention and care; the control of iodine deficiency disorders through the universal use of iodized salt; breastfeeding promotion; and the rehabilitation and construction of wells and low-cost sanitation facilities, focusing on schools, communities and health centres.

In the area of basic education, UNICEF srives to ensure that all school-age children, girls in particular, have access to and attend school regularly. Female functional literacy is pursued as an approach for increasing girls' school attendance and improving childcare, hence helping to reduce gender disparity. The education programme also contributes to the promotion of women's rights through training of education staff and media on gender, CRC, child-friendly schools, as well as female literacy.

Advocacy is critical for the effective implementation of social policies that directly benefit to children. It promotes children’s survival and allows them to lead healthy lives. For instance, as a result of advocacy efforts by UNICEF, the Ministry of Health and United Nations agencies, awareness and discussion of HIV/AIDS is increasing.