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Child Friendly budgeting key to attainment of children’s rights

Child Friendly Budgeting Initiative (CFBI) is a fairly new concept in Africa in general and Zimbabwe in particular. The Zimbabwe National Council for the Welfare of Children (ZNCWC) adopted the CFBI in 2014 in an effort to ensure that children’s rights are promoted, respected and fulfilled. Since then ZNCWC has partnered with other child rights organizations to train children, policy makers and other CSOs on child friendly budgeting so that they can apply the concept in their programmes and activities. There have been encouraging results from these trainings at all levels starting from the children themselves through the Junior Parliament and Junior Council, child led groups, local council authorities and at national programming. However, child rights advocates still have a lot of work to do to ensure that financial support towards children’s programmes is adequate to address children’s needs.

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Constitution Of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 2) Bill, 2019

Memorandum The present Constitution of Zimbabwe became fully operational on the 22nd August, 2013, having been assented to on the 22nd May, 2013, by the President as the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 20) Act, and published on that same day. Below is a clause-by-clause analysis of the Bill: Clause 1 This clause sets out the Bill’s short title. Clauses 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 These clauses dispense with the “running-mate” concept of the Vice-Presidency. Instead, the 2 Vice-Presidents will be chosen on the President’s own authority. Read more

Constitution-of-Zimbabwe-Amendment-No-2-Bill-2019-HB.-23i¢2019-copy.pdf

Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Advocating for change for adolescents’ toolkit

The Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health 2016-30 places countries at the centre of efforts to improve health outcomes for women, children and adolescents. The Strategy also acknowledges adolescents being critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030. It makes the argument that “by investing in the right policies and programmes for adolescents to realize their potential and their human rights to health, education and full participation in society, we can unleash the vast human potential of this ’SDG Generation’ to transform our world.” Read more in the PDF below

RFP-PMNCH-Advocating-for-change-for-adolescents-toolkit-scale-up-five-countries_deadline-29-January-2020-FINAL.pdf

The challenge of hunger and climate change

The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) indicates that the level of hunger and under-nutrition worldwide, with a GHI score of 20.0, falls on the cusp of the moderate and serious categories. This value reflects a decline in the global GHI score in each period examined since 2000, when the global GHI score was 29.0 and fell into the serious category. This achievement coincides with a global decline in poverty and increased funding for nutrition initiatives worldwide. However, current action and spending are still insufficient to reach global goals such as the second Sustainable Development Goal—Zero Hunger— and the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets to which countries have declared their commitment. Furthermore, we need to strengthen our efforts to cope with extreme climatic events, violent conflicts, wars, and economic slowdowns and crises that continue to drive hunger in many parts of the world. Inequalities within country borders allow hunger and undernutrition to persist even in countries that appear to do well according to national averages. The number of people who are undernourished actually rose from 785 million in 2015 to 822 million in 2018. Download the PDF below to read the full report

Synopsis-2019-Global-Hunger-Index.pdf

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