What we're doing in 2008
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Programme Strategies:
Two broad Outcomes are envisaged by 2012 through PAPE’s work:
1. Social and economic policies will be evidence-based and progressively addressing the rights of children, youth and women through inclusive mechanisms.
2. Quality disaggregated social data on children, young people and women will be available and integrated into planning, monitoring and evaluation systems.
To achieve Outcome 1, PAPE will assist Pacific Island governments, civil society organizations, and communities to:
• Develop new or strengthen existing pro-child, -youth and -women development policy formulation processes, tools and options based upon impact analysis of past, present and future social and economic policies.
• Ensure the national budget maintains an informed balance between macroeconomic priorities and child-, youth- and women-centred development goals, are resultsbased and accountable, and are established and monitored through participatory processes at national and subnational levels.
• Continue reviewing and amending selected Laws pertaining to health, nutrition, water, sanitation, education, HIV and AIDS to progressively align with CRC and CEDAW.
To achieve Outcome 2, PAPE will assist Pacific Island governments, civil society organizations, and communities to:
• Research, monitor and evaluate social sector programmes through participatory processes.
• Strengthen social sector information management systems with a particular emphasis on the collation, storage, analysis, dissemination, and use of child-, youth and women-related data.
• Plan for and report progress on child-related Millennium Development Goals, Targets, and Indicators, the Millennium Declaration, World Fit for Children Goals, Targets and Indicators, CRC implementation, and child-related National Development Plan Goals, Targets, and Indicators.
In all the above, the PAPE Programme will advocate for and promote children’s, young people’s and women’s active participation.
Implementing and coordination partners:
Assistance will be concentrated in three of the least developed Pacific Island Countries – Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. PAPE will also lend support for child-centred policy, planning, monitoring and evaluation to the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, and Tuvalu, upon request and as facilitated by the UN’s joint presence in these five countries. PAPE will also maintain a region-wide focus through strategic alliances with UN and the Council of Regional Organizations in the Pacific (CROP) agencies, Bretton Woods Institutions, Donors, International NGOs, media groups, and academic networks.
Through these regional partnerships and by disseminating lessons learned from these eight countries, PAPE will assist Cook Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Tokelau, and Tonga. Country level partners include: Ministries of Finance and Planning; National Statistics and Policy Units; Social Sector Ministries; National Advisory Committees for Children (NACC); sector partners; Provincial and other Administrative Bodies; National NGOs and Faith-Based Organizations; National Media Groups; Women’s Organizations, Youth Groups, and Children.
