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Deputy Foreign Minister gets acquainted with UNICEF projects
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister B.Battsetseg and UNICEF representative to Mongolia Alex Heikens visited Bayankhongor aimag to get acquainted with ongoing UNICEF projects and programs on April 9-10.
UNICEF is implementing ‘Child Friendly Community’ program in Bayankhongor aimag in 2017-2021. Projects and programs worth of USD500 thousand will be implemented targeted to introducing the community-based integrated management for childhood illness and innovative ways to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, developing an advisory for teenagers’ mental health services, providing highly effective nutritional package care to women and children of vulnerable groups, ensuring equal access to education for disabled children and developing a child-friendly local governance.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister B.Battsetseg visited the ‘Erdem high school’, ‘Development center for disabled children’ and ‘Enkhburd’ family health center, where UNICEF projects are being implemented. She exchanged views with the aimag authorities and specialists on project outcomes and issues of concern.
Deputy Minister B.Battsetseg suggested the aimag administration to pay attention on air pollution reduction in the aimag’s center, reducing the spread of respiratory infections and reflecting school enrollment cost of disabled children in local and state budget, spending a certain percentage of local development funds for children, developing a water safety plan for all soums and focusing on its implementation.
UNICEF is implementing ‘Child Friendly Community’ program in Bayankhongor aimag in 2017-2021. Projects and programs worth of USD500 thousand will be implemented targeted to introducing the community-based integrated management for childhood illness and innovative ways to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, developing an advisory for teenagers’ mental health services, providing highly effective nutritional package care to women and children of vulnerable groups, ensuring equal access to education for disabled children and developing a child-friendly local governance.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister B.Battsetseg visited the ‘Erdem high school’, ‘Development center for disabled children’ and ‘Enkhburd’ family health center, where UNICEF projects are being implemented. She exchanged views with the aimag authorities and specialists on project outcomes and issues of concern.
Deputy Minister B.Battsetseg suggested the aimag administration to pay attention on air pollution reduction in the aimag’s center, reducing the spread of respiratory infections and reflecting school enrollment cost of disabled children in local and state budget, spending a certain percentage of local development funds for children, developing a water safety plan for all soums and focusing on its implementation.
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