Child protection
Ensuring that Mongolian children grow up in a safe and protective environment.
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The challenges
Violence against children remains high with 47 per cent of children aged 1-14 having experienced violent discipline. Children’s growing access to internet increases risks of exposure to cyber-bullying, emotional and sexual abuse, grooming and exploitation. There is an absence of a comprehensive child protection system that effectively prevents and responds to violence, exploitation and abuse directed at children. Harmful social norms and practices still exist.
The solutions
UNICEF supports the Government and other national stakeholders in strengthening a child protection system that is inclusive and effective in preventing and responding to child protection violations, including in humanitarian contexts. Followings are some priority areas of interventions:
- Prioritize policy dialogue and reforms towards the full alignment of national frameworks with international norms and standards on child protection and child rights
- Design, scale up and ensure continuum of services for child protection responses, while emphasizing prevention
- Roll out and expand child protection case management, information management and referral systems
- Support a continuum of services across social welfare, justice, health, and education
- Strengthen the capacities of child protection and social service workforces and improve service quality
- Pursue a holistic approach from the policy level to capacity-building on digital literacy among boys, girls, adolescents, caregivers, professionals, and policymakers to respond to the increasing risks of online sexual exploitation, abuse, and bullying, jointly with relevant authorities and with information and communication technology companies
- Promote behaviour change among stakeholders regarding online and offline violence against children, increase knowledge on child survivors of violence, existing services and reporting mechanisms, and support gender-responsive positive parenting
- Build the capacities of teachers to apply positive discipline and promote zero tolerance against any form of corporal punishment to create safe school environment
- Work with national authorities to increase children’s access to justice with a remedy for children in contact with the law, alleged offenders, victims of and witnesses to child protection violations, or in proceedings for care, custody, and protection.
