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TWENTY ONE TARGETS
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A WORLD FIT FOR CHILDREN
PLAN OF ACTION
GOAL 1. PROMOTE HEALTHY LIVES FOR CHILDREN
Target 1. Reduce infant mortality by one third by 2010, aiming to reduce it by two thirds by 2015.
Target 2. Reduce maternal mortality by one third by 2010, aiming to reduce it by two thirds by 2015.
Target 3. Reduce under-five child malnutrition by one third with special attention to children under two, and
reduce low birth weight by at least one third of the 2002 rate.
Target 4. Reduce the number of households lacking hygienic sanitation and affordable, safe drinking water by at least one third.
Target 5. Create and implement national policies and programmes to enhance early childhood physical, social,
emotional, spiritual and cognitive development.
Target 6. Develop and implement national health policies and programmes for adolescents with goals and indicators to promote their physical and mental health.
Target 7. As soon as possible and no later than 2015 provide reproductive health care through primary health
care systems for all individuals of appropriate ages.
GOAL 2. PROVIDE QUALITY EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN
Target 8. Expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, for girls and boys,
especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
Target 9. Reduce the number of primary school-age children who are out of school by 50 %and increase primary school enrollment or participation in alternative, good quality primary education programmes to 90 % by 2010.
Target 10. Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005; and achieve gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.
Target 11. Improve all aspects of the quality of education so that children and young people achieve recognized and measurable learning outcomes especially in numbers, reading, and essential life skills.
Target 12. Ensure that the learning needs of all young people are met through access to appropriate learning and
life skills programmes.
Target 13. Achieve a 50 % improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women.
GOAL 3. PROTECT CHILDREN AGAINST ABUSE, EXPLOITATION AND VIOLENCE
Target 14. Protect children from all forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence.
Target 15. Protect children from the impact of armed conflict and ensure compliance with international
humanitarian law and human rights law.
Target 16. Protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation including paedophilia, trafficking, and abduction.
Target 17. Take immediate and effective measures to eliminate the worst forms of child labour as defined in International Labour Organization Convention No. 182, and elaborate and implement strategies for the elimination of child labour that is contrary to accepted international standards.
Target 18. Improve the plight of millions of children who live under especially difficult circumstances.
GOAL 4. COMBAT HIV/AIDS IN CHILDREN
Target 19. By 2003, establish time-bound national targets to achieve the internationally agreed global prevention goal to reduce by 2005 HIV prevalence among young men and women aged 15 to 24 in the most affected countries by 25 % and by 25 % globally by 2010, and to intensify efforts to achieve these targets as well as to challenge gender stereotypes and attitudes, and gender inequalities in relation to HIV/AIDS, encouraging the active involvement of men and boys;
Target 20. By 2005, reduce the proportion of infants infected with HIV by 20%, and by 50 % by 2010, by: ensuring that 80 % of pregnant women accessing antenatal care have information, counselling and other HIV prevention services available to them, increasing the availability of and by providing access for HIV-infected women and babies to effective treatment to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV, as well as through effective interventions for HIV-infected women, including voluntary and confidential counselling and testing, access to treatment, especially anti-retroviral therapy and, where appropriate, breast milk substitutes and the provision of a continuum of care;
Target 21. By 2003, develop and by 2005 implement national policies and strategies to: build and strengthen
governmental, family and community capacities to provide a supportive environment for orphans and girls and boys infected and affected by HIV/AIDS including by providing appropriate counselling and psycho-social support; ensuring their enrolment in school and access to shelter, good nutrition, health and social services on an equal basis with other children; to protect orphans and vulnerable children from all forms of abuse, violence, exploitation, discrimination, trafficking and loss of inheritance.
The targets above have been edited for easier reading.
It is strongly urged that the reader go to www.unicef.org and study
A World Fit for Children, the outcome document of the 2002 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children.
To implement the 21 targets, please see the 105 project plans written by children
in the Second Floor Member Organizations Project Centre
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