UNESCO

UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences and Culture. UNESCO's programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in Agenda 2030, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015.

Political and economic arrangements of governments are not enough to secure the lasting and sincere support of the peoples. Peace must be founded upon dialogue and mutual understanding. Peace must be built upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of humanity.

In this spirit, UNESCO develops educational tools to help people live as global citizens free of hate and intolerance. UNESCO works so that each child and citizen has access to quality education. By promoting cultural heritage and the equal dignity of all cultures, UNESCO strengthens bonds among nations. UNESCO fosters scientific programmes and policies as platforms for development and cooperation. UNESCO stands up for freedom of expression, as a fundamental right and a key condition for democracy and development. Serving as a laboratory of ideas, UNESCO helps countries adopt international standards and manages programmes that foster the free flow of ideas and knowledge sharing.

UNFPA

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

UNFPA Supports:

1. Reproductive health care for women and youth in more than 150 countries – which are home to more than 80 per cent of the world’s population

2. The health of pregnant women, especially the 1 million who face life-threatening complications each month

3. Reliable access to modern contraceptives sufficient to benefit 20 million women a year

4. Training of thousands of health workers to help ensure at least 90 per cent of all childbirths are supervised by skilled attendants

5. Prevention of gender-based violence, which affects 1 in 3 women

6. Abandonment of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls annually

7. Prevention of teen pregnancies, complications of which are the leading cause of death for girls 15-19 years old

8. Efforts to end child marriage, which could affect an estimated 70 million girls over the next 5 years

9. Delivery of safe birth supplies, dignity kits and other life-saving materials to survivors of conflict and natural disaster

10. Censuses, data collection and analyses, which are essential for development planning

UNFPA is formally named the United Nations Population Fund. The organization was created in 1969, the same year the United Nations General Assembly declared “parents have the exclusive right to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children.”

Family For Every Child

Family for Every Child is an international network of organisations which work together (under the Charity's guidance) to mobilise knowledge, skills and resources dedicated to ensuring that more children can grow up in safe and caring families or in appropriate alternative permanent care. Family for Every Child has 34 Members in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, America and New Zealand.

Family for Every Child aims to achieve the following five goals:

• Enabling children to grow up in permanent, safe and caring families

• Ensuring a range of high-quality, appropriate alternative care choices for children

• Taking steps to prevent children from having to live outside of any adult care, without the care of families or other carers, and in the interim, protecting these boys and girls

• Promoting better and more participatory decision making about children’s care

• Building strong child protection systems which strengthen families and promote quality care for children

Child Rights Network for Southern Africa (CRNSA)

CRNSA is the regional representative of national children’s rights networks in Southern Africa. It has been tasked with promoting practices and policies that fulfil children’s rights and welfare through national child rights networks across the sub-continent. Engaging with national child rights networks operating in member states of the Southern  African Development Community (SADC) as well as with regional and international institutions such as the African Union (AU), the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC), the Pan African Parliament (PAP), and NEPAD (New Path for Africa’s Development) for improved quality of life for children.

The network was established in 2012 to improve child rights governance in Southern Africa. With a mandate to strengthened country child rights networks that protect and promote the rights of children to ensure appropriate child development and child participation in decisions that affect them.

The Africa Early Childhood Network (AfECN)

The Africa Early Childhood Network (AfECN) is an independent professional network that brings together civil society, academia, private entrepreneurs and individuals at national and regional levels to promote holistic child development. Established in 2015, the network was created to develop and advance coherent ECD policy development and implementation throughout the African continent. Harnessing the diversity of strong civil society organizations delivering critical programming and advocacy for young children, AfECN strengthens impact through coordinated action, driven in close collaboration and consultation with key stakeholders.

The Vision of AfECN - An Africa where all children are learning, safe, healthy, happy and are achieving their full potential.



UNICEF

UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. With the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality.  That makes UNICEF unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young.

UNICEF believes that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress.  UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind – to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child’s path.  With the belief that we can, together, advance the cause of humanity.

UNICEF advocates for measures to give children the best start in life, because proper care at the youngest age forms the strongest foundation for a person’s future.

UNICEF promote girls’ education – ensuring that they complete primary education as a minimum – because it benefits all children, both girls and boys. Girls who are educated grow up to become better thinkers, better citizens, and better parents to their own children.

UNICEF acts so that all children are immunized against common childhood diseases, and are well nourished, because it is wrong for a child to suffer or die from a preventable illness.

UNICEF works to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among young people because it is right to keep them from harm and enable them to protect others. Helping children and families affected by HIV/AIDS to live their lives with dignity.

UNICEF involves everyone in creating protective environments for children. Being present to relieve suffering during emergencies, and wherever children are threatened, because no child should be exposed to violence, abuse or exploitation.

UNICEF upholds the Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Working to assure equality for those who are discriminated against, girls and women in particular. Working for the Sustainable Development Goals and for the progress promised in the United Nations Charter. Stringing for peace and security. Holding everyone accountable to the promises made for children.

UNICEF is a part of the Global Movement for Children – a broad coalition dedicated to improving the life of every child.  Through this movement, and events such as the United Nations Special Session on Children, we encourage young people to speak out and participate in the decisions that affect their lives. 

Working in 190 countries through country programmes and National Committees. UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund.

UNICEF works in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nambia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

UNAIDS

The goal of UNAIDS is to lead and inspire the world in Getting to zero: zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-deaths.

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Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF)

The Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) was established in 1997 in accordance with Article 9 (2) of the SADC Treaty as an autonomous institution of SADC It is a regional inter-parliamentary body composed of Thirteen (13) parliaments representing over 3500 parliamentarians in the SADC region. These member parliaments are Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South, Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The Forum seeks to bring regional experiences to bear at the national level, to promote best practices in the role of parliaments in regional cooperation and integration as outlined in the SADC Treaty and the Forum Constitution. Its main aim is to provide a platform for parliaments and parliamentarians to promote and improve regional integration in the SADC region, through parliamentary involvement.

SADC PF works in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

South African Regional Network Against Trafficking and Abuse of Children (SANTAC)

SANTAC mission is to build synergies amongst Southern Africa institutions and individuals to fight against all manifestations of child abuse, in particular child sexual and commercial exploitation, child labour and trafficking of children for any purpose, through lobby and advocacy, protection, law reform, rehabilitation and care services for victims.

Inter-Agency Task Teams on Children and HIV and AIDS (IATT-CABA)

The Inter-Agency Task Team for children affected by HIV and AIDS (IATT-CABA) is a global multi-agency network of over 50 members working on issues relating to children affected by HIV and AIDS. Led by UNICEF, the network has been at the forefront of the children affected by AIDS global response since 2001.

The IATT-CABA specifically aims to:

• Promote coordination and harmonization of policy guidance and programming
• Advocate, both internally and externally for accelerated implementation of evidence-informed interventions
• Promote the development and sharing of technical and programming information
• Support and broaden networking and collaboration