SIX municipalities in North Cotabato have been identified as candidate partners for the implementation of the Seventh Country Programme for Children (CPC7) of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
After a series of thorough situation analyses and workshops conducted by Unicef on 1,500 municipalities in the country, the towns Aleosan, Arakan, Banisilan, Midsayap, Pikit and Pres. Roxas have been considered as beneficiaries of the program due to their inclusion in several national government priority lists.
To be officially included in the program, they were advised through a letter signed by OIC-Deputy Representative of Unicef, Abdul Alim to place considerable emphasis on the role of the municipality in the delivery of social services critical to the protection and promotion of children’s rights during the implementation of the CPC7 which will officially start this January 2012.
The CPC7 has been specifically designed to assist municipalities that have identified their gaps in social development and have initiated work to address those gaps through Sanggunian-approved development program budgets. [EDV]
