Plan of Action for the Survival, Protection and Development of Children (United Nations): III. Follow-up actions and monitoring: (introduction...)

Plan of Action for the Survival, Protection and Development of Children (United Nations)

I. Introduction

II. Specific actions for child survival, protection and development

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The Convention on the Rights of the Child

Child health

Food and nutrition

Role of women, maternal health and family planning

Role of the family

Basic education and literacy

Children in especially difficult circumstances

Protection of children during armed conflicts

Children and the environment

Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic growth

III. Follow-up actions and monitoring

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Action at the national level

Action at the international level

Appendix: Goals for children and development in the 1990s

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	Action at the national level
	Action at the international level

33. Effective implementation of this Plan of Action will require concerted national action and international co- operation. As affirmed in the Declaration, such action and co-operation must be guided by the principle of a "first call for children" - a principle that the essential needs of children should be given high priority in the allocation of resources, in bad times as well as in good times, at national and international as well as at family levels.

34. It is particularly important that the child-specific actions proposed must be pursued as part of strengthening broader national development programmes combining revitalized economic growth, poverty reduction, human resource development and environmental protection. Such programmes must also strengthen community organizations, inculcate civic responsibility and be sensitive to the cultural heritage and social values which support progress without alienation of the younger generation. With these broad objectives in mind, we commit ourselves and our Governments to the following actions: