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Document that sets out<br />
goals and strategy<br />
Maternal and <strong>Child</strong> Heath<br />
Programme<br />
Key policy,<br />
law, or<br />
directive<br />
Public Health<br />
Act<br />
Maternal and<br />
<strong>Child</strong> Health<br />
Manual (1995)<br />
<strong>Policy</strong> objective<br />
This programme provides<br />
immunization; antenatal clinics;<br />
contraception; and information<br />
and advice on parenting,<br />
child health development,<br />
maternal health and well-being,<br />
child safety, immunization,<br />
breastfeeding, nutrition and birth<br />
spacing.<br />
Relation to other sectors and<br />
national strategy<br />
Linked to Nutrition <strong>Policy</strong><br />
and Reproductive Health<br />
<strong>Policy</strong><br />
Also a priority indicator in<br />
Planning Long, Acting Short<br />
strategy<br />
Lead<br />
implementing<br />
agency<br />
Ministry of<br />
Heath<br />
Education<br />
EFA (Education for All)<br />
National Plan of Action<br />
2001–2015 (2004)<br />
Education Act<br />
2001<br />
Six EFA goals:<br />
1. Expanding and improving<br />
comprehensive early<br />
childhood care and education,<br />
especially for the most<br />
vulnerable and disadvantaged<br />
children<br />
2. Ensuring that by the year<br />
2015 all children, particularly<br />
girls, children in different<br />
circumstances and those<br />
belonging to ethnic minorities<br />
have access to complete,<br />
free and compulsory primary<br />
education of good quality<br />
3. Ensuring that the learning<br />
needs of all young people<br />
and adults are met through<br />
equitable access to<br />
appropriate learning and<br />
life-skills programs<br />
4. Achieving a 50%<br />
improvement in levels of adult<br />
literacy by 2015, especially for<br />
women, and equitable access<br />
to basic and continuing<br />
education for all adults<br />
Linked to MDG 1, alleviate<br />
extreme poverty, and MDG<br />
2, achieve universal primary<br />
education<br />
EFA development has<br />
progressed in stages since<br />
1990, following the World<br />
Conference on Education for<br />
All. The most recent edition<br />
of Vanuatu’s EFA Action Plan<br />
is for 2001–2010, completed<br />
in 2004.<br />
All education policies,<br />
strategies and plans are<br />
strongly linked to MDG<br />
goals of achieving universal<br />
primary education, with<br />
equitable gender access<br />
and capacity building in rural<br />
areas.<br />
Ministry of<br />
Education,<br />
Youth<br />
Development<br />
and Training<br />
5. Improving all aspects of<br />
the quality of education<br />
and ensuring excellence<br />
of all so that recognized<br />
and measurable learning<br />
outcomes are achieved by<br />
all, especially in literacy,<br />
numeracy and essential life<br />
skills<br />
6. Eliminating gender disparities<br />
in primary and secondary<br />
education by 2015, with a<br />
focus on ensuring girls’ full<br />
and equal access to basic<br />
education of good quality<br />
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