Concepcion 2005 - LGRC DILG 10

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Securing The Future: Making Concepcion, Iloilo Child-Friendly SUMMARY The child-friendly movement in Concepcion is a multi-sectoral, multi-level initiative to realize the goals of the international Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) at the local level. Launched in 2000, the program has been instrumental in making Concepcion a multi-awarded childfriendly municipality. The program generally aims to address perennial poverty in the municipality by improving access to health, social welfare and education services, generating more income and livelihood opportunities, and expanding LGU policies and programs on poverty alleviation. The program’s unique feature, however, is that it strives to achieve all these by focusing and prioritizing children’s rights and welfare in various LGU programs. The program pursues a convergence of various programs that provide investments for and promote the rights of children. These include the following: Day Care Services; Early Childhood Development (ECD); Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (CIDSS); Population, Health and Environment; Municipal Education Reform (Project RAUL – Reform in Accelerated and Unified Learning); Poverty Free Zone; Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-CIDSS (Kalahi-CIDSS); Kapangyarihan at Kaunlaran sa Barangay, and Gawad Kalinga. Through the concerted efforts of local government officials and the support of the community, the child-friendly program of Concepcion improved the conditions of children and their families in the municipality. It has made various services accessible to the young even in far-flung barangays. This accomplishment has earned Concepcion recognition as the Most Child-Friendly Municipality from various institutions from 2000 to 2003. Project Description: An LGU focuses on children’s rights and needs Concepcion is a 4th class municipality in Iloilo province with a population of 34,240. With 87% of its population living below the poverty line before the November 2005 2
Securing The Future: Making Concepcion, Iloilo Child-Friendly program was launched, the local government unit (LGU) faced the challenge of providing basic services to Concepcion families, almost half of whom could barely provide for the needs of their children. Concepcion’s children and youth faced a bleak future before the program was implemented: • Only 15% of children aged 0-2 years old and 40% of children aged 3-5 years had any early childhood education. • Only 62% of school children finished elementary school. Poor quality education was also a problem; the pupil-book ratio was 1 book for 9 children. Not surprisingly, reading proficiency was at a low 47%. • 33% of school children were malnourished, with below normal or with very low normal weight (based on IRS standard) resulting to poor school performance and health. The prevalence of underweight children in general was 20%. The poor state of local health care added to the problem with dilapidated health facilities and limited supplies of medicines. • Infant mortality is at 13.15 per 1000 live births while child mortality was at 1.05 per 1000 children aged 5 years and below, with accidental death by drowning as the leading cause of death (14 of Concepcion’s 25 barangays are located along the coast). • 14% of pregnancies were among girls between 14-18 years old; overall maternal mortality rate was at 240 per 100,000 and family planning users were at a low 20% of the population; In addition, efforts by the municipal government to address these problems were hampered by limited resources, information and awareness on the rights and needs of children. Taken together, these conditions finally led to the prioritization of health and education concerns of children in the 2000 Executive Agenda of the municipality. Program Objectives Basic Profile: Concepcion, Iloilo Location: 5 th district, Iloilo province, Region 6 Land Area: 9,702 hectares, coastal and generally mountainous Population: 34240 ( HH) Population growth: 2.76% Ave. HH size: 5 members Income class: 4 th class IRA: Php 27.94M Local Revenues: Php 6.855 M No. of barangays: 25 Land use: agricultural, commercial, residential, built up and tourism-related Major industries/economic activities: mainly fishing and fishery-related industries Generally, the child-friendly program aimed to create an environment that was conducive to children’s growth and welfare. More specifically, the program objectives were: 1. To address the lack of LGU policies supporting children-related programs 2. To promote the convergence of the various development programs of the LGU that invest in and promote the rights of children 3. To encourage multi-stakeholder participation in the protection of children November 2005 3
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