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Demographers, statisticians, planning experts and programme coordinators from about 20 countries from West and Central Africa on Monday began a five-day workshop on the evaluation of progress made since the World Summit on Children held in 1990.
The aims of the workshop, organised by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), include helping countries to prepare surveys that will enable them to evaluate the attainment of specific, measurable objectives adopted at the summit. The objectives, relating to the health, well-being and rights of children, are contained in a declaration and plan of action adopted by 70 heads of state and government in 1990.
Ten years on, 181 countries have signed the declaration and 191 have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to UNICEF.
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