Plan Of Action For

Implementing
The World Declaration On
The Survival,
Protection And Development
Of Child
CAMILLE L. LIBREA
In The 1990
 The plan of action is intended as a guide
for national Governments international
organizations , bilateral aid agencies non-
governmental organization s (NGOs) all
other sectors of society in formulating
their own programs of action for ensuring
the implementation of the Declaration of
the World Summit for Children
Specific actions for child survival, protection and
development were suggested by the World
Declaration and Plan of Action, in the areas of:
• Child health
• Food and nutrition
• Role of women, maternal health and family planning
• Role of the family
• Basic education and literacy
• Children in especially difficult circumstances
• Protection of children during armed conflicts
• Children and the environment
• Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
growth
Child Health
Specific actions for child survival, protection and
development were suggested by the World
Declaration and Plan of Action, in the areas of:
• Child health
• Food and nutrition
• Role of women, maternal health and family planning
• Role of the family
• Basic education and literacy
• Children in especially difficult circumstances
• Protection of children during armed conflicts
• Children and the environment
• Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
growth
Food and Nutrition
Specific actions for child survival, protection and
development were suggested by the World
Declaration and Plan of Action, in the areas of:
• Child health
• Food and nutrition
• Role of women, maternal health and family planning
• Role of the family
• Basic education and literacy
• Children in especially difficult circumstances
• Protection of children during armed conflicts
• Children and the environment
• Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
growth
Role Of Women, Maternal
Health And Family
Planning
Specific actions for child survival, protection and
development were suggested by the World
Declaration and Plan of Action, in the areas of:
• Child health
• Food and nutrition
• Role of women, maternal health and family planning
• Role of the family
• Basic education and literacy
• Children in especially difficult circumstances
• Protection of children during armed conflicts
• Children and the environment
• Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
growth
Role of Family
Specific actions for child survival, protection and
development were suggested by the World
Declaration and Plan of Action, in the areas of:
• Child health
• Food and nutrition
• Role of women, maternal health and family planning
• Role of the family
• Basic education and literacy
• Children in especially difficult circumstances
• Protection of children during armed conflicts
• Children and the environment
• Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
growth
Basic Education and Literacy
Specific actions for child survival, protection and
development were suggested by the World
Declaration and Plan of Action, in the areas of:
• Child health
• Food and nutrition
• Role of women, maternal health and family planning
• Role of the family
• Basic education and literacy
• Children in especially difficult circumstances
• Protection of children during armed conflicts
• Children and the environment
• Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
growth
Children In Especially Difficult
Circumstances
Specific actions for child survival, protection and
development were suggested by the World
Declaration and Plan of Action, in the areas of:
• Child health
• Food and nutrition
• Role of women, maternal health and family planning
• Role of the family
• Basic education and literacy
• Children in especially difficult circumstances
• Protection of children during armed conflicts
• Children and the environment
• Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
growth
Protection of Children During
Armed conflicts
Specific actions for child survival, protection and
development were suggested by the World
Declaration and Plan of Action, in the areas of:
• Child health
• Food and nutrition
• Role of women, maternal health and family planning
• Role of the family
• Basic education and literacy
• Children in especially difficult circumstances
• Protection of children during armed conflicts
• Children and the environment
• Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
growth
Children and the Environment
Specific actions for child survival, protection and
development were suggested by the World
Declaration and Plan of Action, in the areas of:
• Child health
• Food and nutrition
• Role of women, maternal health and family planning
• Role of the family
• Basic education and literacy
• Children in especially difficult circumstances
• Protection of children during armed conflicts
• Children and the environment
• Alleviation of poverty and revitalization of economic
growth
Success
Polio: global eradication by 2000
•Neonatal tetanus: elimination by 1995
•Deaths due to diarrhea: 50 percent reduction
•Vitamin A deficiency: virtual elimination by the year 2000
•Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD): virtual elimination
•Elimination of guinea-worm disease(Dracunculiasis) by 2000
Some progress[edit]
•Infant and under-5 mortality: reduction by one third in infant mortality and Under-5
mortality
•Measles: reduction by 95 percent in measles deaths and 90 percent of measles cases by
1995 as a major step to global eradication
•Malnutrition: reduction of severe and moderate malnutrition among under-five children by
half
•Breastfeeding: empowerment of all women to breastfeed their children exclusively for four
to six months and to continue breastfeeding, with complementary food, well into the second
year of life
•Low birth-weight: reduction of the rate of low birth-weight to less than 10%
•Family planning: access by all couples to information and services to prevent
pregnancies that are too early, too closely spaced, too late or too numerous
•Childbirth care: access by all pregnant women to prenatal care
•Water: universal access to safe drinking water
•Universal access to basic education: achievement of primary education by at
least 80% of primary school-age children
•Universal access to education with an emphasis on primary education for girls
and literacy training for women
•Early childhood development (ECD): expansion of ECD activities, including
appropriate low-cost family and community-based interventions
•Improve protection of children in extremely difficult circumstances
No progress
Routine immunization: maintenance of a high level of immunization coverage
•Maternal mortality: reduction of the rate by half
•Anemia: reduction of iron deficiency Anemia in women by one-third
•Overall child deaths were reduces from 12 million a year to 9
million; about 30 million children’s lives saved over a decade.
•Reduced polio disease by 99% and from 125 countries to 20
countries in 2000. and today 99.9%, and polio remains
endemic in just two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan.