Sinnar Child Protection Council: assurances to intensify response to meet humanitarian child protection needs
UNICEF, non-governmental organizations and relevant parties assured Sennar State to intensify response to meet urgent humanitarian needs in the area of child protection, during a meeting of partners of childhood held today at the invitation of the Supreme Council for Child Welfare – Sennar. State.
The meeting covered a number of topics, including coordination, the current situation of children and the review of all interventions of the recent period, in the presence of
Addressing the opening of the coordination meeting, Mr. Ismail Kamel Mahmoud, Deputy Secretary of the Sinnar State Supreme Council for Child Welfare, confirmed that previous periods were marked by low coordination and their impact on the dispersion of efforts, noting that the Children's Council is responsible for protecting children, ensuring coordination and unifying efforts.
He said the importance of the partners' meeting lies in developing recommendations that would determine appropriate frameworks and appropriate mechanisms to coordinate efforts and work towards building an integrated child protection system.
While Ms. Manal Dhawina Hammad, Director of the Nutrition Department at the Ministry of Health, welcomed the roles to which UNICEF and national organizations working in the field of children continue to aspire, gaps still exist and require coordination of all.
She added that the current situation of children in the state sorely requires unified efforts and enhanced interventions. Dhuina revealed the opening of 37 outpatient treatment centers for malnourished children, and stressed that the coming period will see an expansion of these openings. of all state centers destroyed by the rapid support terrorist militia, providing it with supplies and implementing activities.
In the same context, Professor Amal Abdullah Muhammad Al-Amin – Social Development Sector thanked the Council's partners for their generous support and expressed confidence, based on today's discussions, that the humanitarian community is mobilizing its efforts to increase its support to meet growing demand. needs.
He assured the assembly that protection work requires everyone to cooperate and exchange information, and that the Children's Council represents the fundamental reference for the protection of children. Participants called on all organizations working in the field of children and government agencies to work in harmony and. in harmony with priorities and real needs, especially since the field of protection is vast and requires more interventions.
Meeting participants presented a number of observations and recommendations in support of the coordination process and requirements for engagement with protection systems levels and to keep abreast of the activities of organizations at the local level . Among the outcomes put forward by participants were the strengthening of the role of the Child Protection Council and the need to continue coordination meetings for all partners. He developed indicators to prioritize areas most in need, created a map showing deficient areas, created community protection networks to remind society of the importance of protecting children, and commissioned the organization Media for Children to establish a media platform to defend the cause of children. problems. It is necessary to activate the hotline to provide information that serves the best interest of the child.
