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Uttar Pradesh: Child-related Activities of Key UN
Agencies
ILO activities: Aligarh, Allahabad,
Ferozabad, Kanpur Nagar, Moradabad
The ILO is currently implementing the INDUS Project in the five
above districts. The Project is jointly funded by the Government
of India and the Government of the United States of America and
aims at creating an enabling environment where children are motivated
to enrol in schools, induced to refrain from working and households
are provided with income generation alternatives. The Project
works with the National Child Labour Projects (NCLPs) by seeking
to develop models, which can be replicated in other districts.
UNICEF activities: Meerut, Agra,
Etah, Lucknow, Lalitpur, Allahabad, Bahraich, Barabanki, Jaunpur,
Mizapur, Sant Ravidas Nagar
In Uttar Pradesh UNICEF is currently implementing the Elementary
Education Programme in three districts, namely Lucknow, Lalitpur
and Barabanki, and the Child Protection Programme in Meerut, Agra,
Etah, Lucknow, Allahabad, Bahraich, Jaunpur, Mizapur and Sant
Ravidas Nagar. 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. The Child Protection Programme complements the Government’s
initiatives in the areas of child labour, child trafficking, and
children in difficult circumstances. In the field of child labour,
the programme focuses particularly on the informal sector and
also explores the risk implications of the spread of HIV/AIDS
in the context of trafficking, and of commercial sexual exploitation
of children. Regarding children affected by difficult circumstances,
the Programme emphasises strengthening indigenous-coping and resilience
mechanisms.
UNIFEM activities: Gorakhpur
Consistent with the Government’s priorities and key issues
identified in the National Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking
and Commercial and Sexual Exploitation, the Regional Programme
on Trafficking in South Asia, which started in 2001, implements
national and regional level activities, including field operations.
Field operations, undertaken by partner NGOs, include social mobilization
and awareness raising at the community level in Gorakhpur district,
which is near Nepal’s border.
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