Đăng ký: VietNam News
 Vice Minister Doan Mau Diep and UNICEF Representative in Viet Nam are at the ceremony in Ha Noi. (Photo: CPV) (CPV) - Urgent action is needed to prevent millions of children from missing out on the benefits of innovation, UNICEF said in a new report launched in Ha Noi on December 4th 2014 on the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Connectivity and collaboration can fuel new global networks to leverage innovation to reach every child, according to the children’s agency. The State of the World’s Children Report – Reimagine the future: Innovation for every child calls on governments, development professionals, businesses, activists and communities to work together to drive new ideas for tackling some of the most pressing problems facing children – and to find new ways of scaling up the best and most promising local innovations. “The world is changing every day and Viet Nam is now in the process of developing its Social Economic Development plan for 2016-2020. To address the current challenges, we need new ways of thinking, and innovative solutions that go beyond traditional approachs”, said Mr. Doan Mau Diep, Vice Minister of Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs. “Human beings are born into an increasingly connected world where lines between local and global problems are blurred. This presents an unprecedented opportunity to foster the creation of movements and new partnerships, to fuel collaboration and connections and to build a global community of innovation for equity”, said Mr. Youssouf Abdel-Jelil, UNICEF Representative in Viet Nam. The latest edition of UNICEF’s flagship report argues that innovations such as oral rehydration salts or ready-to-use therapeutic foods have helped drive radical change in the lives of millions of children in the last 25 years – and that more innovative products, processes, and partnerships are critical to realizing the rights of the hardest to reach children. The fully digital report includes multimedia and interactive content that invites readers to share their own ideas and innovations, and highlights outstanding innovations that are already improving lives in countries around the world from a wide range of countries. In the Launching ceremony of the State of the World Children Report in Hanoi today, UNICEF highlights some innovations that Viet Nam has been carried out to benefit its children, including: HEBI – the ready-to-use therapeutic food, produced by the National Institute of Nutrition with support from UNICEF and the Institute for Research and Development (IRD) on a not-for profit basis, is currently used for the management of severe acute malnutrition in children from Kon Tum Province. HEBI is made mostly from locally available ingredients and has been adapted to the taste of Vietnamese children. The product contributes to the effectiveness and sustainability of the acute malnutrition treatment for children in Viet Nam and proposed to be included into the National Social Health Insurance scheme currently covering children under 6 years of age. Ethnic Minority Semi-Boarding schools were initiated by the community and ethnic minority parents to allow children who live in remote mountainous areas to spend the week living in the boarding schools, and to return home on weekends. The semi boarding school model, which increases access and also improves quality of education for children has been adopted and supported by the Government. The model has been expanded from 13,230 students in 2 provinces in 2010-2011 to 128,643 students in 26 provinces in 2013-2014. UNICEF and its partners launched the first Mobile Hackathon in Viet Nam in 2013 focusing on innovation for children. In the context of rapid telecommunications growth and coverage in Viet Nam, the Hackathon was provided a platform to develop a working demo mobile app that can then be freely distributed through open-source platforms that can used by both relief/aid workers and mobile device consumers. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. Viet Nam was the first country in Asia and second country in the World to ratify the Convention in 1990. Since then, there has been tremendous progress in advancing child rights – under five mortality rates have been reduced by 75 per cent and most children now attend primary school. High immunization coverage helped eradicate polio in 2000 and maternal and neonatal tetanus in 2005. However, the rights of millions of children are violated every day, with the poorest 20 percent of the world’s children twice as likely as the richest 20 percent to die before their fifth birthday, almost one in four children in the least developed countries engaged in child labour, and millions of children regularly experiencing discrimination, physical and sexual violence, and abuse and neglect. UNICEF has prioritized innovation across its network of more than 190 countries, setting up hubs around the world to foster new ways of thinking, working and collaborating with partners and to nurture local talent./. |