United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF)
Policy approach in Bosnia and Herzegovina
United
Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the world’s lead agency for children, has
been working in partnership with Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since
1992. UNICEF’s policy approach is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, the Millennium Declaration and its Goals, and the outcome of the UN
General Assembly’s Special Session on Children.
The focus of the joint
BiH-UNICEF Country Programme of Co-operation 2005-2008 is to achieve the
following three key outcomes:
Policy
makers and community representatives will provide leadership in developing
national policies that contribute to the realization of the rights of children,
young people, and women;
Service
providers and caregivers will adopt behaviours that facilitate access to
education, health care, and child protection services for the most vulnerable;
Policy
makers and community representatives will encourage and facilitate the
meaningful participation of children and young people in their communities,
including in addressing the risk of landmines.
Allocation and activities in 2007
UNICEF’s
own donation to BiH programmes in 2007 was approximately € 0.88 million. Over half of these funds were allocated to the
Health sector (€ 450,000). The data indicates that compared to 2006, there has
not been a significant change in either the total allocation or the composition
of sectors to which UNICEF contributes. It is expected that in 2008, UNICEF’s
total allocation will decrease slightly.
It
must be noted that the allocation indicated above is a small fragment of
UNICEF’s approved operating budget, which totals over € 11.9 million,
distributed to the following programmes: Policy Support (€ 1.76 million),
Inclusive Basic Health, Education, and Child Protection Services (€ 4.84
million), Participation for Good Governance (€ 3.96 million), and
cross-sectoral costs (€ 0.73 million). UNICEF is funded entirely by voluntary
contributions.
UNICEF’s donations to different sectors (multi-year comparison)
UNICEF sector composition in 2007
Contact information
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Address: Kolodvorska
6, 71000 Sarajevo,
BiH
Phone: +387 33.723.300
Fax: + 387 33.642.970
Email: sarajevo@unicef.org
Web addresses: www.unicef.org/bih; www.unicef.ba
