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Govt., UNICEF to take on children and women’s rights
Aimed at strengthening local and regional ties while at the same time working towards the realization of children and women’s rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Mr Bernt Aasen, yesterday commenced an official visit here in Guyana.
UNICEF’s Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Bernt Aasen
The visit, which comes as part of the UN body’s commitment to cooperation with the Government for the advancement of development for children and women’s rights, represents part of a programme of support to Government that will span a five-year period (2012-2016).
The overall goal of the current programme of cooperation is to contribute to the progressive realization of children and women’s rights in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The programme has a special focus on disparity reduction, elimination of inequities and enhancement of inclusiveness in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
During this five-year Country Programme, UNICEF will work with the Government to provide capacity-building support for results-based planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of equity and gender-sensitive policies, legislation and programmes for children and women. This support is expected to be organized around Guyana’s established national priorities for human and social development.
A critical component of UNICEF’s work in Guyana is to address the underlying challenges to the formulation and implementation of equity-sensitive programmes by strengthening the availability of data, specifically information disaggregated by geographic location, gender, and ethnicity, especially for the hinterland regions where the most disadvantaged children live.
During his visit, the UNICEF Regional Director will meet President Donald Ramotar and senior Government officials to discuss key issues relating to UNICEF-supported programmes and partnerships in the country. The Regional Director will also meet with partner Ministers for UNICEF-supported programmes and participate in the launch of the Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) Strategic Plan. The Regional Director was appointed to his post in August 2009.
Aasen’s UNICEF career has seen him working as a Representative in Afghanistan, Senior Advisor/Deputy Director a.i. (ad interim) in the Office of Emergency Programmes, Director in charge of UN coherence issues, and Director and Chief of Staff at UNICEF’s New York headquarters.
He has vast experience with UNICEF in Latin America and the Caribbean, where he was UNICEF Representative in Nicaragua and Mexico. He also served the Guatemala Area Office as Project Officer in Honduras and as Head of Office in Panama.
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