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Rajasthan: Child-related Activities of Key UN Agencies
UNESCO activities: Baran, Jodhpur
In the two above districts UNESCO is currently implementing a
project called Breaking the Poverty Cycle of Women. This project
aims at empowering adolescents girls to become agents of social
transformation on a pilot basis. It focuses on a combination of
factors, which contributes to poverty, including discrimination
based on social origin through multi-pronged interventions such
as providing micro credit opportunities and non formal education
(NFE) to adolescent girls.
UNFPA activities: Sawai Madhopur,
Karauli, Chittaurgarh, Bhilwara, Udaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur, Rajsamand
The UNFPA supported Adolescent Programme is part of the UNFPA
Sixth Country Programme of Assistance. It focuses on providing
adolescents with practical information on sexual and reproductive
health. The project’s goal at the national and state level
is to help ensure a healthy and safe development process for adolescents
of both sexes, in and out of school. Key strategies include building
a supportive environment at the policy and community levels; informing
adolescents on health/SRH; building their life skills and promoting
service linkages on a pilot basis.
UNICEF activities: Alwar, Bharatpur,
Dhaulpur, Jaipur, Ajimer, Tonk, Jodhpur, Jhalawar, Rajsamand
In Rajasthan UNICEF is currently implementing the Elementary
Education Programme in the nine above districts. The Elementary
Education Programme supports the Government’s SSA initiative
by making efforts to: (1) reduce gender disparities; (2) promote
access and quality education for children from disadvantaged groups;
(3) enhance learning achievements by improving the quality of
education; (4) improve and expand educational data and analysis
and (5) deliver and document quality education.
WFP activities: Banswara, Dungarpur
In the two above districts WFP is currently implementing a project,
which aims at improving the nutritional status of children and
women by supporting the Government’s Integrated Child Development
Service (ICDS). Interventions focus on increased coverage of children
under three and malnourished expectant, as well as nursing mothers.
The pre-school education component of the ICDS is also strengthened
to contribute towards universal elementary education.
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