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CHALLENGES IN GOVERANCE RELATED TO CHILDREN’S WELFARE DURING CALAMITIES – THE LCPC AND BCPC

CHALLENGES IN GOVERANCE RELATED TO CHILDREN’S WELFARE DURING CALAMITIES – THE LCPC AND BCPC. Children in Calamities Children are the most vulnerable sector in a community and society in normal times

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CHALLENGES IN GOVERANCE RELATED TO CHILDREN’S WELFARE DURING CALAMITIES – THE LCPC AND BCPC

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  1. CHALLENGES IN GOVERANCE RELATED TO CHILDREN’S WELFARE DURING CALAMITIES – THE LCPC AND BCPC

  2. Children in Calamities Children are the most vulnerable sector in a community and society in normal times They become more vulnerable during disaster situations, especially if they are poor, because they lack access to housing, health, education and other basic needs.

  3. As children, they are dependent on their family and adults for survival, sustained well-being and development. Children need special attention as a matter of right and as a responsibility of duty-bearers to the next generation, or salinlahi.

  4. Issues and Challenges to Children’s Rights and Child Development during Calamities • Health and safety • Psychosocial distress • Exploitation and gender-based violence

  5. CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS THAT PUT CHILDREN AT RISK • Family separation • Overcrowding and lack of adequate facilities • Loss of educational opportunities

  6. The Challenge Integrating Children’s Rights in Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management and Climate Change Adaptation • Executive and Legislative Agenda • Comprehensive Development Plan • DRMM Plan • CBDRRM Plan • Contingency Plan

  7. Integrating Children’s Rights in Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management and Climate Change Adaptation • Annual Investment Program

  8. Integrating child rights in disaster risk reduction and management (and community development) protects children from: • threats to their development, and • increases their capacities and resilience.

  9. Child-focused • preparedness • mitigation • prevention • emergency responses • rehabilitation measures • integrated in the local development plan and disaster risk reduction management plan

  10. How do LGUs make sure that child rights promotion and protection become part of its process and functions? Integrating children’s concerns and issues in the following areas: • Policy • People • Enabling Mechanisms • Programs and Services

  11. Close coordination between the Local Council for the Protection of Children/BCPC and the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils/BDRRMC to mainstream DRRM in the rationalized planning system

  12. Role of LCPC • Identify children’s needs • Establish data-base on children • Request/determine for psychosocial intervention • Request the Committee on Women and Children to support the program • Prevent child trafficking, prostitution and other forms of violence at the evacuation centers

  13. LCPC BASIC COMPETENCIES • Ability to conduct advocacy and awareness-building campaigns to gain public support on children’s concerns • Policy formulation on children • Resource mobilization and other sustainability programs to increase investment support to children • Research and documentation on children

  14. LCPC BASIC COMPETENCIES • Establishing data-base on children/ data banking • Ability to undertake Children’s and LCPCs’ Summit/Congress in the locality 7. Program and Projects Monitoring and Evaluation including updating on the situation of children and the progress of the plan for children • Piloting Programs and Projects for Children that can respond to recurring common needs and concerns

  15. Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit National Ave. Per Indicator 1. Percentage reduction in the deaths among children below five (5) years old. 2.16 2.Percentage reduction in children under-six years old with below normal weights. 1.76

  16. Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit National Ave. Per Indicator 3. Percentage increase in the number of 3-4 year-old children attending center-based day care services. 1.18 4. Completion rate for elementary schooling in 2013 (Public and Private). 3.46

  17. Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit National Ave. Per Indicator 5. Absence of child labor or reduction in child labor cases. 2.68 6. Percentage reduction in the number of children victims of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. 1.26

  18. Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit National Ave. Per Indicator 7. Safety measures for children in the community and schools. Safety measures for children in the community and schools. 0.77 8. Extent of mainstreaming of Children’s rights to survival, development, protection and participation in the core development agenda of LGUs. 5.88

  19. Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit National Ave. Per Indicator 9. An ordinance establishing Barangay Violence Against Women and their Children VAW/C) Desks. 0.68 10. 2013 Philhealth accreditation in its main health facility or rural health unit for the Maternal Care Services and Primary Care. 1.32

  20. Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit National Ave. Per Indicator 11. A Local School Board (LSB) Plan for CY 2013 that is aligned with the School Improvement Plan (SIP). 0.8 12. Completed at least 70% of its LSB Plan for 2013. 0.86

  21. Thank You

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