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 Posted - 26 Oct 2007 : 18:17:24
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UNICEF Holds Meeting With URR TAC
By Lamin Fatty
The New Unicef country representative in The Gambia Madam Min-Wheel Khaan, with her deputy and some senior Unicef officials recently concluded a three-day working visit to Basse in URR. The aim of their visit was to exchange ideas with their partner institutions on their program approaches and strategies as to how to coordinate the Unicef Gambia government country program of cooperation 2007-2011 which is highly concentrated in URR. It is also meant to enable the partner institutions to present their implemented activities, the challenges faced, constraints and a way forward.
Speaking on the TAC meeting, which was held at the Basse Area Council chambers, the Unicef boss said that URR has encountered numerous problems ranging from health, education, child protection, empowerment and poverty in particular. She pointed out that this was the reason why the Unicef country program of cooperation is concentrating highly in the region. According to her, the aims and objectives of Unicef is to ensure the protection and promotion of the fundamental rights of children who according to her died before the age of five years as a result of diarrhoea, malaria, and other preventable diseases. She therefore stressed the need for the protection and promotion of the fundamental rights of women at all levels of their lives, ensuring the provision of basic needs services, such as clean safe drinking water, electricity, hospitals, equipped with nurses and doctors who are well trained and paid. She pointed out that she has great expectations from the URR TAC and therefore tasked them to have policies, programs and strategies for the promotion and protection of children and women’s rights and also monitor the progress made as the program activities are being implemented. She finally called for the development of regional sectoral plans and strategies to coordinate the implementation of the country program activities by sectors within the region and assured them of Unicef’s support and collaboration with TAC to jointly implement the regional plans.
The remarks made by the Unicef representative were followed by presentations from the Unicef implementing partners such as TOSTAN Gambia, CADO, Education, Health and CBO’s.
The meeting was chaired by the Governor of URR, Alhagie Omar Khan.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 126/2007, 26 – 28 October 2007
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