For every child
Health, Education, Equality, Protection
ADVANCE HUMANITY
For every child
The Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council (GJMC) has undertaken a Child Friendly Cities Initiative to include the development of a Metropolitan Programme of Action for Children and to influence local laws within their municipality. This broad-reaching plan will incorporate child rights into city planning and allocate major resources to the city's most deprived children. Impressed by Johannesburg's actions, other urban and rural communities have pledged to pursue child friendly policies. These and other achievements are laying a foundation for change, but difficulties remain. Democratic institutions are still in their infancy and there is no precedent for government cooperation with civil society. Bitter controversy often erupts over the pace of change. Yet there is encouragement in the fact that so many groups have been able to set aside differences to unite behind the cause of progress for children.
(UNICEF - P.O. Box 4884 - Pretoria, 0001, South Africa - e-mail: Spress@unicef.org.za)
