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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

Protecting Children from Violence, Abuse and Exploitation in the Pacific

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Outcome 1: Child Protection Systems (including Justice and Police, child and family social services, health and education and communities) provide improved quality of and access to services for the prevention of and response to violence, abuse and exploitation of children at all times.Outcome 2 Parents, caregivers, and children demonstrate skills, knowledge and behavior enabling children to grow up in caring homes and communities, including schools that are free from violence, abuse and exploitation.
Capacity

UNICEF works with development partners: donors and international financial institutions with partnerships increasingly oriented towards collaboration on policy advocacy, knowledge sharing and leveraging re-sources for children. UNICEF is working in partnership with DFAT in these areas including recent successful leveraging of partnerships to strengthen regional coordination on legal reforms through establishing a working group of regional bodies and UN agencies to address coordination. UNICEF has partnership relation-ships with regional bodies, such as the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) for which there is a Memorandum of Understanding. Close national partnerships is maintained with relevant ministries and provincial and district administrations as key implementing partners for UNICEF's Multi-Country Programme through signed annual work plans.UNICEF will work directly with the government agency tasked with providing social welfare services to vulnerable children and families. Each PIC has slightly different government structures for addressing child protection depending on the organogram of the government, expertise and resources available and historical development of child protection. Not all countries have a Ministry with a mandate for social welfare although most have a ministry with a mandate for community development, social or home affairs. Therefore the program is flexible in determining best partnership arrangements for implementation on a country by country basis.

Governed

Targeted PICs are at different stages in developing their child protection systems, with varying levels of public understanding and awareness of violence, abuse and exploitation. The UNICEF Child Protection Programme will employ an incremental or phased-in approach based on the current status of PIC Child Protection systems, the level of political support, and the extent to which an enabling environment is present or can be created.UNICEF engages in the Pacific at four levels: i. with Pacific regional organizations (to advocate, facilitate and coordinate Pacific-wide inter-country frameworks, commitments and reviews); ii. with each of the 14 sovereign governments (for normative policy level advocacy, planning and reviews); iii. with country-based organizations and institutions (to mobilize and leverage focus and resources for children); iv. and, with sub-national organizations (to support and learn from initiatives at provincial, district and community levels).

Partners
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Government of Australia
UNICEF
Governments of Nauru, Palau, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshall Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Tuvalu

Goal 3

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 3

3.1

By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
3.1.1

Maternal mortality ratio

3.1.2

Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

3.2

By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
3.2.1

Under-five mortality rate

3.2.2

Neonatal mortality rate

3.3

By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases

3.3.1

Number of new HIV infections per 1,000 uninfected population, by sex, age and key populations

3.3.2

Tuberculosis incidence per 100,000 population

3.3.3

Malaria incidence per 1,000 population

3.3.4

Hepatitis B incidence per 100,000 population

3.3.5

Number of people requiring interventions against neglected tropical diseases

3.4

By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being
3.4.1

Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease

3.4.2

Suicide mortality rate

3.5

Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol

3.5.1

Coverage of treatment interventions (pharmacological, psychosocial and rehabilitation and aftercare services) for substance use disorders

3.5.2

Alcohol per capita consumption (aged 15 years and older) within a calendar year in litres of pure alcohol

3.6

By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents
3.6.1

Death rate due to road traffic injuries

3.7

By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes

3.7.1

Proportion of women of reproductive age (aged 15-49 years) who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods

3.7.2

Adolescent birth rate (aged 10-14 years; aged 15-19 years) per 1,000 women in that age group

3.8

Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all

3.8.1

Coverage of essential health services

3.8.2

Proportion of population with large household expenditures on health as a share of total household expenditure or income

3.9

By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination
3.9.1

Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution

3.9.2

Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (exposure to unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (WASH) services)

3.9.3

Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning

3.a

Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate
3.a.1

Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older

3.b

Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all

3.b.1

Proportion of the target population covered by all vaccines included in their national programme

3.b.2
Total net official development assistance to medical research and basic health sectors
3.b.3

Proportion of health facilities that have a core set of relevant essential medicines available and affordable on a sustainable basis

3.c

Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States
3.c.1

Health worker density and distribution

3.d

Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks

3.d.1

International Health Regulations (IHR) capacity and health emergency preparedness

3.d.2

Percentage of bloodstream infections due to selected antimicrobial-resistant organisms

1.6 Child protection national policy to prevent, detect and respond to VAC developed and established in at least four countries (Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Fiji).
1.8 Training/capacity building of service provider/professionals (police, social welfare, health workers, edu-cation) in at least four countries (Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Fiji)
Birth registrations services decentralized with partnerships strengthened with health and other service pro-viders in three target countries (Kiribati, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu).
Guideline protocols designed and rolled out for teachers and students to prevent, detect and report vio-lence against children in at least 3 countries (Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu).
Staff / Technical expertise
Technical support through provision of UNICEF staff expertese and consultancies
Financing (in USD)
Direct cash assistance to partners
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Protecting Children from Violence, Abuse and Exploitation in the Pacific
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31 December 2017 (date of completion)
Entity
UNICEF
SDGs
3
Region
  1. Asia and Pacific
Countries
Fiji
Fiji
Contact Information

Karen Allen, UNICEF Representative Pacific Islands

kallen@unicef.org