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Advocacy
WVIN has identified advocacy as one of its core ministries, alongside
transformational development and humanitarian emergency affairs.
WVIN’s advocacy focuses on influencing government policy and
practice to provide greater benefits and services to vulnerable
children and their families. WVIN has identified increased access
to government services for children and communities, promoting
child-friendly local governance, and supporting the Child Health
Now campaign as key areas.
Child Friendly Local Governance (CFLG)
In FY 2012, WVIN’s advocacy continued towards the endorsement
of the National Framework on Child Friendly Local Governance
(CFLG) and its operational guidelines by the Nepal Government
Cabinet. CFLG means a governance system that institutionalises
child rights such as survival; development; protection; and
meaningful participation in the policy, structure, system and
working procedures of local bodies. Following that endorsement,
WVIN and UNICEF agreed on a partnership that aims to
contribute to achieving the objectives of CFLG implementation
at two levels: National and sub-national level. In 2012, orientation
and training in CFLG was held for district-level stakeholders,
including the Association of the District Development Committee;
Nepal and sectoral Ministries, Ministry of Federal Affairs and
Local Development (MoFALD); municipalities, the Municipality
Association of Nepal (MuAN); implementing agencies, government
officers. Other activities conducted were: support and guidance for
the development of user-friendly material for CFLG for community
and frontline workers, software for VDC profile software, and
child-friendly monitoring tool.
Coalitions and networks
In FY 2012, WVIN advocated for children’s rights as a member
of National Coalition for Children as Zones of Peace and Child
Protection (CZOPP). Established in 2003, CZOPP is a national
coalition/network of organisations working in the field of child
rights working collectively to coordinate and integrate advocacy
for the protection and promotion of the rights of children.
Achievements of this network in FY 2012, were meetings with
different stakeholders to ensure children’s rights and their input
into the constitution-making process, meetings on Child Rights Bill
with organisations, key stakeholders and parliamentarians working
exclusively for the promotion of child rights, the promotion of the
Schools as Zones of Peace (SZOP) campaign in co-ordination with
the Department of Education (DOE), and ensuring the coordination
and support among child rights organisation for the Convention on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) monitoring and reporting.
In FY 2012, WVIN also promoted child participation as a member
and partner of the Consortium of Organisations working for
Children’s Participation, a loose national network of organisations
working for the promotion of children’s participation at all levels,
from family to state. Currently, there are 61 member organisations
from 29 different districts representing all five development
regions. In FY 2012, a major achievement of this network, was
the endorsement of the National Policy for Children (Balbalika
Sambandhi Rashtriya Neeti) by Cabinet on 16 April 2012. This
policy is the culmination of four policies concerning Children of
Nepal-Child Survival, Child Development, Child Protection, and
Child Participation. Follow up in the past year on the Child Club
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