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Your chance to tell the UK Government to put children first
DFID White Paper consultation
The UK Government is asking for people’s opinions on how we can help people in poor countries, especially in relation to the international response to the global financial crisis. EveryChild is urging its supporters and all those concerned about the fate of millions of girls and boys who are living in institutions, with employers, or on the streets to send the Government your views.
How can you get involved?
The Department for International Development will be publishing a White Paper later this year. This is a major policy proposal which will determine the future direction of UK’s international development policies. By following the link to DFIDs website you can send them your comments and see the comments left by others.
What is EveryChild doing?
A vital part of EveryChild’s role is to help the communities, families and children we work with around the world have their voices heard by British politicians. EveryChild believes that DFID must pay greater attention to identifying and protecting especially vulnerable groups who are hardest hit by economic downturn, climate change and conflict. We are calling for more support for vulnerable children and a clearer commitment to keeping families together and protecting children from abuse and exploitation.
Please help us get this message across by cutting and pasting the following text into and sending these key recommendations to DFID:
Key recommendations for DFID:
• Retain existing commitments on aid, and ensure that additional resources are allocated to responding to the current crisis.
• Adopt a child rights approach to international development, including the allocation of substantial resources to integrated programmes for the protection of children from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
• Aim for a fairer distribution of wealth through investments in social protection and reform of international financial institutions and systems.
• Design social protection systems to protect children and keep them safe in family-based care.
• Monitor strategies aimed at promoting economic growth to assess the impact on children and ensure that girls and boys are properly protected.
• Promote the inclusion of child protection in disaster preparedness plans, with particular references to responding to the needs of children separated from parents and carers.
• Ensure that new frameworks developed post 2015 include references to child protection, with specific indicators on reducing the numbers of boys and girls separated from parents and carers.
• Actively support the adoption and subsequent promotion of the UN Guidelines for the Appropriate Use and Conditions of Alternative Care for Children.
> EveryChild submission to DFID
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