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      Title :Progress report on follow-up to the World Summit for Children
      Document Type :Executive Board Decisions - Programme 



      Country :HeadquartersDocument Symbol/Series: 1995/14

      Year Published : 1995 PDF Link :
      OSEB Doctype : Executive Board Decisions
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Executive Summary:



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The Executive Board,

Recalling its decision 1994/A/2 (E/ICEF/1994/13) concerning a mid-decade review 
of progress towards implementation of the commitments of the Declaration and 
Plan of Action of the World Summit for Children,

1. Requests the Executive Director to play an active, supportive role in helping 
to implement General Assembly resolution 45/217 of 21 December 1990 and to 
undertake consultations within the United Nations system and with members of the 
Executive Board as to how UNICEF can best support this process called for by the 
World Summit for Children and Executive Board decision 1994/A/2;

2. Proposes the sixth anniversary of the World Summit for Children, 30 September 
1996, as an appropriate date for the results of such a review to be announced;

3. Urges all Governments to participate in the review by carrying out prior to 
September 1996 assessments of progress at mid-decade towards the goals of the 
World Summit for Children;

4. Further urges countries, in carrying out such assessments, to include 
provincial and local authorities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the 
private sector and civic groups in this activity, in the spirit of paragraph 34 
(i) of the Plan of Action of the World Summit for Children;

5. Calls upon international and national NGOs to provide input to the assessment 
by Governments of progress as of mid-decade and of the steps that need to be 
taken to assure attainment of the year 2000 goals;

6. Requests the secretariat to support countries, as requested and within the 
context of UNICEF country programmes, in the gathering and analysis of data on 
progress towards the mid-decade and decade goals and the overall assessment of 
the country's response to the World Summit Declaration and Plan of Action. All 
work done in support of the gathering of data for the mid-decade and end-decade 
goals should be standardized, coordinated with and shared by other United 
Nations agencies and result in improved and sustainable national capacity in 
gathering and analysing data on the situation of children;

7. Also requests the secretariat to report back to the Board in future Executive 
Director's reports on the cost of the mid-decade review exercise to UNICEF and 
its country programmes and, where possible, to other partners, including the 
United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization (WHO), the 
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the 
United Nations Population Fund and other United Nations partners;

8. Further requests the secretariat to work closely with other United Nations 
entities, particularly WHO, UNESCO and the United Nations Statistical Office, in 
systematizing the results of national assessments of progress and other relevant 
data, with a view to presenting, by the middle of 1996, a coherent and 
comprehensive statement of the status of achievement of the mid-decade goals and 
of progress towards the goals for children and development by the year 2000.

Annual session
25 May 1995