UKRAINE

Young People's Health and Development (YPHD) programme
The Young People's Health and Development project is directed towards promoting healthy lifestyles among young people and helping to develop innovative new approaches for ensuring young people's health and development rights. The project is based on youth participation strategy. It promotes the development of Children's Parliamentarian Movement in 15 cities of Ukraine, and the establishment of the Children's Information Radio Agency in five cities. The Ukrainian network of about 40 Youth NGOs working on the issues of prevention, reproductive health, HLS promotion has been established jointly with UNFPA. The RUB Meeting on Youth Participation was conducted in Kiev for thirty partner organisations to conceptualise methodologies, approaches and best practices on youth participation in three countries. The Resource Package on Youth Participation for RUB is now being developed to be published in the year 2002. Ukraine participated in the Regional "Young Voices" Opinion Survey of Children and Young People. The results were launched in the Parliament of Ukraine for parliamentary committees with an interest in several affairs. It was also shared with all main state, civic counterparts and mass media.
More than 1,500 works from more than 250 mass media representatives were submitted for the 2nd All-Ukrainian Award on Child's Rights, which aims to concentrate mass media attention on the issues of children and youth and to raise public awareness on child's rights. Mass media play a particularly important role in mobilising society towards protection of children's rights and interests, and in changing its attitude towards the problems of children. The training of mass media for the promotion of children's rights should be continued. UNICEF supported the publication of the Parents Guide for Grade 1-4 on healthy life-styles which has been introduced in Kiev schools. The YPHD project is starting to work more closely with the system of education, promoting policies to ensure that all children and young people have access to and remain in adolescent-friendly schools.

Youth Friendly Cities
In 2000, Mayors of Ukraine meeting for the Youth Friendly Cities: Mayors from 35 Ukrainian cities, representatives of youth organisations and mass media took part in the Mayors meeting to develop local plans of action, observe best practices, etc.

Contact

UNICEF Ukraine
c/o United Nations Integrated Office
1, Klovsiy Uzviz Street
252010 Kiev, Ukraine
Telephone (380-44) 253.0479
Fax (380-44) 230.2506
Email maleksanyan@unicef.org