Call for fair financing for excluded children

Save the Children on Tuesday launched the ‘Every Last Child’ campaign as part of its global advocacy to draw light on the child rights issues and address discriminatory barriers to protecting children, reports UNB. Financial, discriminatory and participatory barriers are pinpointed as the three main barriers that excluded children face when accessing their rights to health, education, child protection and social protection. Save the Children aims to galvanise action in ensuring that every child has an equal opportunity to survive and thrive, and achieve their full potential regardless of where they live or where they were born through the launch of their three-year campaign. Save the Children Bangladesh’s interim country director William Lynch officially launched the campaign here at a views-exchange meeting with journalists at its office in the capital. “A unique opportunity exists to explicitly address this location driven exclusion. We need to address the root causes and consequences that every last child is facing, particularly in hard-to-reach rural areas and urban slum areas,” Lynch said. He said shifting discriminatory norms and behaviours around the provision of health and education services particularly amongst children living in urban slums and hard-to-reach rural areas must change. “Children within these excluded groups must be able to participate in decisions that ultimately affect their lives,” Lynch added. Bangladesh is a country in transition, having already attained lower middle- income country status and with estimates of becoming a majority urbanized country by 2039.
Save the Children in Bangladesh’s director (Policy, Rights and Governance) Hagar Russ said steps should be taken now towards inclusiveness of the most excluded children so that Bangladesh could be built into such a state where every child is healthy, educated and safe towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, promising to ‘leave no child behind’ by 2030. The campaign has urged decision-makers at the household, local and national level for fair financing, equal treatment and accountability to children in Bangladesh.

Call for fair financing for excluded children

Save the Children on Tuesday launched the Every Last Child campaign as part of its global advocacy to draw light on the child rights issues and address discriminatory barriers to protecting children, reports UNB. Financial, discriminatory and participatory barriers are pinpointed as the three main barriers that excluded children face when accessing their rights to health, education, child protection and social protection. Save the Children aims to galvanise action in ensuring that every child has an equal opportunity to survive and thrive, and achieve their full potential regardless of where they live or where they were born through the launch of their three-year campaign. Save the Children Bangladeshs interim country director William Lynch officially launched the campaign here at a views-exchange meeting with journalists at its office in the capital. A unique opportunity exists to explicitly address this location driven exclusion. We need to address the root causes and consequences that every last child is facing, particularly in hard-to-reach rural areas and urban slum areas, Lynch said. He said shifting discriminatory norms and behaviours around the provision of health and education services particularly amongst children living in urban slums and hard-to-reach rural areas must change. Children within these excluded groups must be able to participate in decisions that ultimately affect their lives, Lynch added. Bangladesh is a country in transition, having already attained lower middle- income country status and with estimates of becoming a majority urbanized country by 2039. Save the Children in Bangladeshs director (Policy, Rights and Governance) Hagar Russ said steps should be taken now towards inclusiveness of the most excluded children so that Bangladesh could be built into such a state where every child is healthy, educated and safe towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, promising to leave no child behind by 2030. The campaign has urged decision-makers at the household, local and national level for fair financing, equal treatment and accountability to children in Bangladesh.