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Child Friendly Cities brochures
2004

The Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) was launched in 1996 to act on the resolution passed during the second UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) to make cities liveable places for all; in UNICEF terms, for "children first." The Conference declared that the well-being of children is the ultimate indicator of a healthy habitat, a democratic society and of good governance. With the growth of CFC activities, cities have increasingly expressed the need to exchange information, share experiences and sort out common problems together. Informal exchanges have gradually developed into networks and regular meetings. An International Secretariat for Child Friendly Cities was created in 2000 at UNICEF, Innocenti Research Centre in Florence, Italy. Consistent with the mandate of the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre to promote understanding of child rights, the CFC Secretariat collects, documents, distils and disseminates experience on local strategies to implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child and pursue the Millennium Development Goals. The CFC Secretariat has developed a brochure called CHILD FRIENDLY CITIES. The poster includes information about the CFC Secretariat, the global CFC Initiative and the characteristics that make a city 'Child Friendly'. This brochure has been designed from an original by Altan, a popular Italian cartoonist. It is available in English, Spanish and French versions.

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PDF cfc_brochure_french.pdf 606, KB CFC Brochure in French
PDF cfc_brochure_spanish.pdf 606, KB CFC Brochure in Spanish

Nove passi verso le città amiche delle bambine e dei bambini
2004

The Italian National Committee for UNICEF produced a leaflet that summarizes the nine building blocks in creating a Child Friendly City taken from the CFC Framework for Action. The CFC Framework has been prepared by UNICEF International Secretariat for Child Friendly Cities in collaboration with Peter Newell, coordinator of EPOCH - End Physical Punishment of Children and consultant for UNICEF. This document provides a framework for defining and developing a Child Friendly City. The framework translates the process needed to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by national governments into a local government process. It identifies the nine “building blocks” to build a local system of governance committed to fulfilling children’s rights - structures and activities of government which are necessary to engage children’s active involvement, to ensure a children’s rights perspective in all relevant decision-making and equal rights of access to basic services. The nine elements include: 1) Children’s participation: promoting children’s active involvement in issues that affect them; listening to their views and taking them into consideration in decision-making processes. 2) A child friendly legal framework: ensuring legislation, regulatory frameworks and procedures which consistently promote and protect the rights of all children. 3) A city-wide Children’s Rights Strategy: developing a detailed, comprehensive strategy or agenda for building a Child Friendly City, based on the Convention. 4) A Children’s Rights Unit or coordinating mechanism: developing permanent structures in local government to ensure priority consideration of children’s perspective. 5) Child impact assessment and evaluation: ensuring that there is a systematic process to assess the impact of law, policy and practice on children - in advance, during and after implementation. 6) A children’s budget: ensuring adequate resource commitment and budget analysis for children. 7) A regular State of the City’s Children Report: ensuring sufficient monitoring and data collection on the state of children and their rights. 8) Making children’s rights known: ensuring awareness of children’s rights among adults and children. 9) Independent advocacy for children: supporting non-governmental organisations and developing independent human rights institutions - children’s ombudspeople or commissioners for children - to promote children’s rights.
For more information on the Italian National Committee visit the UNICEF Italia website or contact sindaci@unicef.it

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Ville Amie des Enfants
2002

Launched by the French Mayors Association (Association des Maires de France - AMF) and by the French National Committee for UNICEF in 2002, the initiative "Ville Amie des Enfants" (Child Friendly Cities) represents a network of more than 100 French cities of all sizes by the end of 2006. All those communities have common goals: to become more friendly to children of all ages and to gain their close collaboration through child participation programmes; to promote international solidarity; and to foster the knowledge of the United Nations International Convention on the Rights of the Child. To achieve these goals, the Child-Friendly Cities (CFC) France network organizes meetings at which the city representatives share their experiences and develop new ideas they can implement locally. A website of the initiative Ville Amie des Enfants was launched on 24 December 2004. Besides general information of this initiative it provides a web page (Tour de France) in which 109 recognized Child Friendly Cities (update June 2006) are mapped and specific information on each city is provided.
Cities recognized as child friendly cities in 2002 were: Charleville-Mézières, Colmar, L’Haÿ-les-Roses, Mulhouse, Nancy, Nantes, Nevers, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Toulouse, Versailles.
Cities recognized as child friendly cities in 2003 were: Bordeaux, Boulazac, Chateauroux, Cherbourg-Octeville, Déols, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Joué les Tours, Le Raincy, Lens, Lille, Lorient, Mont de Marsan, Moulins, Niort, Orvault, , Reims, Rennes, Rouen, Saintes, Saint-Etienne, Saint-Clair de la Tour.
Cities recognized as child friendly cities in 2004 were: Arras, Auch, Aurillac, Auxerre, Balma, Bapaume, Blois, Boulogne, La Celle Saint-Cloud, Champs sur Marne, Cholet, Courbevoie, Cournon d’Auvergne, Darnetal, Dôle, Fontenay-sous-bois, Gap, Gardanne, La Garde, Grenoble, Hirson, Hyère, L’Isle sur la Sorgue, Laragne, Lyon, Macon, Metz, Montluçon, Mouans-Sartoux, Pau, Petit Couronne, La Roche sur Yon, Rodez, Sainte-Adresse, Saint-Avé, Saint-Avold, Saint-Cyr sur Loire, Saint-Marcellin, Saumur, Seichamps, Valbonne Sofia Antipolis, Yzeure.
Cities recognized as child friendly cities in 2005 were: Amilly, Arles, Arnay le Duc, Besançon, Cannes, Champigneulles, Chelles, Digne les bains, Fréjus, Grand-Quevilly, Haguenau, La Rochelle, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, Le Mans, Les Pennes Mirabeau, Linselles, Malaunay, Marly le Roi, Pont à Mousson, Saint-Martin de Crau, Saint-Raphaël, Saint-Sébastien sur Loire, Sochaux, Templemars, Tomblaine, Vanves, Veynes, Villeneuve sur Lot.
Cities recognized as child friendly cities during 2006 are: Aubergenville, Brive la Gaillarde, Dijon, Guyancourt, Vannes.
For further online information, visit the Ville Amie des Enfants website or contact: Melusine Harlé, Responsible for Ville Amie des Enfants, UNICEF France, 3, rue Duguay-Trouin 75006 Paris, tel: +33 1 44 39 77 25, e-mail: villeamiedesenfants@unicef.fr

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PDF depliant_vae_2004.pdf 357, KB Brochure 2004 in French language (1 p.)
PDF depliant_vae_04.pdf 133, KB Brochure 2004 in French language (2 p.)

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URL http://www.villeamiedesenfants.fr/

What Barangay Officials can do to set up a Child-Friendly Locality
2001

The Child-Friendly Movement has energized many parts of the Philippines. But many communities remain uncertain how to make the movement work for them. A new booklet was launched recently at a gathering of officers and members of the League of Barangay Officials. Aptly called, "What Barangay Officials Can Do to Set Up a Child-Friendly Locality", the booklet is a useful guide to creating child-friendly communities that will help realize the vision of a good quality of life for the Filipino child in the 21st century. The booklet is intended to be simple and user-friendly. It is designed to be used at community level as a tool to assess itself and track its progress towards creating conditions that help children develop to their full potential. It describes 7 foundations in order to fulfil 24 Child Goals. The 24 goals are: (A) Child Health: (1) All children are registered at birth. (2) All infants are exclusively breastfed up to about 6 months. (3) All children are fully immunized against Tuberculosis, Diphtheria/Pertussis/Tetanus, Polio and Measles. (4) All children 0-2 years old are weighed monthly and mothers counselled on health, nutrition and psychosocial care. (5) All children are well-nourished. (6) All children 1-5 years old are given Vitamin A capsules twice a year. (B) Maternal Health: (7) All births are attended by trained personnel. (8) All pregnant women get at least four pre-natal checkups. (9) All mothers are immunised against Tetanus. (10) All pregnant or lactating women are sufficient in Vitamin A and are not anaemic. (11) All pregnant women who are at risk get emergency obstetric care. (12) All pregnancies are spaced at least two years apart. (C) Education: (13) All children 3-5 years old attend early education programmes. (14) All children 6-16 years old are in school and finish high school. (15) All schoolchildren pass the National Elementary Achievement Test (NEAT) (16) All out-of-school-children are identified and reinstated, or are provided alternative education. (17) All illiterate parents and caregivers are enrolled in functional literacy programmes. (D) Special protection: (18) All children are removed from exploitative and hazardous labour, prostitution and pornography. (19) All cases of physical and sexual abuse and violence are eliminated in the home and community. (E) Family practices: (20) All families have safe drinking water. (21) All families have access to and use only iodised salt. (22) All families use sanitary latrines. (23) All family members share in child care and other domestic responsibilities. (F) Child Participation: (24) Children 12-17 years old participate in socio-cultural and community development activities, for example sports, children’s theatre, cleanliness drives, community fund raising campaigns and information dissemination on child right issues. The 7 foundations are: a functional Barangay Council for the protection of children, a functional children’s organisation, a functioning justice system, a functioning health and nutrition system, a functional early childhood care and development centre, child-friendly schools, a community managed knowledge dissemination and exchange system addressing issues concerning children and parents. A self-assessment method has been linked to these points. The method was developed in careful consideration of the existing evaluation tools of the Council for the Welfare of Children. The publication has been jointly prepared by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), League of Barangay Officials, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
For more information visit the website UNICEF Philippines

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We've Got the Right
2004

This video looks at the Rights of the Child from the perspective of children living in Northern Ireland. The video was made by children from the Fountain and Long Tower schools in Derry Londonderry. They looked at issues in their everyday lives and related these back to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The project was a partnership between Derry Children's Commission and the Nerve Centre and was funded by the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, Social Justice Initiatives. The video ‘We’ve got the Right’ received a UK Impetus award in October 2004 for being an example of good practice.
For more information please contact Clionagh Boyle, Director, Derry Children’s Commission, 26-28 Bishop Street, Derry Londonderry Doire, Northern Ireland, BT48 6PP. telephone (00 44) 2871366339 or e-mail at derrychildrenscommission@yahoo.com.

Partnerships to Create Child-Friendly Cities
Programming for Child Rights with Local Authorities
2001

By the year 2025, 6 out of every 10 children will live in urban areas. UNICEF and its partners are calling for leadership and commitment for the realization of a shared vision for children, adolescents and women: cities freed from poverty, discrimination, violence and disease. This booklet describes how local authorities can create child-friendly cities that nurture the lives, growth and development of children and youth. It also contains information about the partnership between UNICEF and IULA (The International Union of Local Authorities). Spanish and French editions are also available.
This publication is part of the Innocenti Library. Click here to consult the UNICEF IRC Catalogue.

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Towards Child-Friendly Cities
1999

This leaflet published by UNICEF illustrates some important steps to make cities child-friendly from grassroots to city hall such as: involve the children; make city government more responsive to the needs of children and form partnerships that include children.
This publication is part of the Innocenti Library. Click here to consult the UNICEF IRC Catalogue.

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URL http://www.unicef-icdc.org/resources/library.html

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