Celebrating World Children’s Day 2024: MOGCSP Calls For Action
This year’s World Children’s Day was marked in Accra with a focus on child rights amidst the escalating climate crisis.
The events in Ghana brought together selected children from various regions, leading discussions on the significant impact of change on their lives and futures.
The discussions covered various critical issues, including the direct health impacts of climate change on children, such as increased physical dangers, waterborne diseases, and malnutrition.
The celebration also highlighted collaboration efforts between the Government, development partners, civil society organizations, and the private sector, focusing on advocacy, partnerships, and the 2024 MOGCSOP summit.
The Directorof Gender, Children and Social Protection at the Ministry, Dr Afisah Zakariah in her remarks indicated the obstacles facing children in the Ghana by formulating child-friendly laws, child representation, and legislative oversight to ensure child rights.
She stated that the ministry is currently reviewing its Social Protection Strategic Plan, the Early Childhood Care the affirmative action act 2024 and Development Policy, the National Gender Policy and the Domestic Violence Policy among others to ensure that all emerging issues affecting the vulnerable in society were mainstreamed for effective social services delivery.
The summit, themed “promoting equality and inclusive development through affirmative action; gender equality act 2024”, brought together stakeholders, including development partners.
The objective of the summit was to have a broad understanding and agreement on the key priority issues facing the social protection and child protection programmes and update their partners and general public on work done in areas of gender equality and women empowerment.
Dr. zakariah said in 2022, the ministry was one of the least funded social sector government organisations, receiving less than 0.6 per cent of the total government expenditure, adding that a decreasing prioritisation of social and child protection financing against the increasing levels of poverty and inequality in the country but in 2024 things have changed as government has increase its budget that has brought major improvement.
The Director at the back stage encounter with the media said the country had made significant investments in key social protection and child protection programmes, resulting in improvement in the lives of the less privileged.
By: Frank Owusu Obimpeh
