The Paniai Regency Government and UNICEF, signed a Letter of Intent to create a Child-friendly Regency, coinciding with the celebration of National Children's Day.
The fulfillment and protection of children's rights is the foundation and capital for regional development, especially starting from an early age.
An integrated set of interventions needs to be provided to help children recover from falling behind and become better prepared for primary school.
Through the signing of this document, the Paniai District Government and UNICEF are committed to preparing a program that focuses on increasing access to quality learning, the availability of clean water, sanitation and personal hygiene services, as well as health services, routine basic immunizations and essential child protection.
It is known, in the last two years, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruption to education services and other essential services for children throughout Indonesia, which has cost around 530,000 schools and 60 million students.
Some 200,000 PAUD services in Indonesia have also been closed for a long time, harming more than 4 million early childhood children. This problem is certainly felt in Papua, especially in Paniai.
“UNICEF's priority is very clear that we want to help the groups most in need so that no one is left behind. For early childhood groups, their growth and development period is very important for us to support and pay attention to,” said UNICEF Indonesia Chief Field Operations (Pimpinan Operasional, Field Program), Marcella Christina.
Marcella said, the fulfillment of education and health services during the growth period is very much needed for the sustainability of children's lives.
"We need to help these children, who will be the future generations of Indonesia and the world," he said.
Head of the UNICEF Papua and West Papua Regional Office, Aminuddin Ramdan, said that the commitment from the Paniai Regency Government to create a Child-friendly Regency is highly appreciated.
"At this moment of National Children's Day, we hope it will be a stage towards significant changes in the lives of early childhood," said Ramdan.
He said, UNICEF supports the fulfillment of children's rights in Paniai District, with the start of this partnership.
“We ensure that children will benefit from an educational and growing environment that is safe, more protective and more child-friendly. Because it coincides with National Children's Day, we can say that the signing of this commitment is one of the gifts for the children in Paniai," he said.
The Regent of Paniai, Meki Nawipa, said he was very happy to see the children in his area very active.
“This indicates that there is still hope for the future of Papua and Indonesia to be more advanced. Let's use this momentum to make Paniai child-worthy. We make the children remember how precious this day is,” said Meki Nawipa.
Just to note, since the end of 2021, UNICEF has been supporting Paniai Regency to improve basic services, such as early childhood education and health.
The Paniai Regency Government and UNICEF, signed a Letter of Intent to create a Child-friendly Regency, coinciding with the celebration of National Children's Day.
In the field of education, through funding from the Paniai District Working Group (Pokja) for Mothers of Early Childhood Education (PAUD), UNICEF also conducts training for trainers (Training of Trainers) for PAUD teachers and Pokja Bunda HI PAUD to improve basic services in PAUD and program management. the good one.
In coordination for the umpteenth time, UNICEF not only provided technical support for HI PAUD, but also strengthened literacy and numeracy learning in early grades in elementary schools (SD).
After UNICEF conducted baseline measurements in July 2022, the results showed that elementary school-aged children in Paniai Regency who were able to read with comprehension were still below 20 percent.
It is hoped that in the next 10 months with technical support through the Rumsram Foundation, this Early Grade Literacy learning strengthening program can run well so as to improve children's reading and writing skills.
Paniai Regency PAUD Mother added, through the celebration of National Children's Day and the signing of this collaboration with UNICEF, she hopes that in the future Paniai's children will increasingly get quality education, good health services, protection, and the best parenting patterns from parents.
As a concrete form of follow-up to the signing of the Memorandum of Interest, UNICEF provided support to 3 elementary schools for the Early Grade Literacy program, early childhood development in 5 pilot PAUDs through the distribution of Educational Game Tools (APE) and training for PAUD teachers as well as regular monitoring .
In addition to Paniai Regency, UNICEF also collaborates with local governments in 19 other regencies/cities in Tanah Papua to fulfill and protect children's basic rights.
SOURCE: https://papua.tribunnews.com/2022/07/23/unicef-dan-pemkab-paniai-tandatangani-nota-pernyataan-kehendak-unjukkan-kabupaten-layak-anak
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